August 2020 Sutherland Group Newsletter

2020: Recognising 250 years of Joseph Banks and 50 years of Joseph Banks Reserve About Sutherland Group Coming up.. We meet at 8 pm every third Wed, 19 Aug Sutherland Group meeting: Art, Culture and Wednesday from February to Botanical Science with Roseanne Quinnell November at Gymea Community This is a Zoom meeting – see page 2 Centre, 39 Gymea Bay Rd, Gymea. Thurs, 3 Sep JB Reserve working bees are back on. Visitors welcome. Sun, 6 Sep Rules for Covid-19 are in place; more here We support awareness and Wed, 16 Sep Sutherland Group meeting: Spring flower conservation of Australian native spectacular and 50 years of Joseph Banks . Reserve

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President Leonie Hogue 75A Wattle St Jannali 2226 [email protected] Ph 0416 286 083

Secretary Rhonda Daniels [email protected] Ph: 9521 8381

Treasurer Anne Webb 9 Connels Rd Cronulla 2230 Ph 9523 6067 G. glabratum (Dainty wedge pea) from APS flickr account Publicity Officer & Speaker Convenor This is a prostrate to small shrub up to about 40 cm. Now is a good Ralph Cartwright time to spot this little shrub in flower along the Wises Track in the [email protected] Royal National Park. It is endemic to south eastern Australia, Ph 9548 1074 typically found in heath on sandstone soils, forest or 0416 030 872 open woodland.

Newsletter Editor Peter Shelton Inside this issue [email protected] For your diary ...... 2 Ph 0411 286 969 For the August Zoom Meeting ...... 2 At the July Meeting ...... 3 Newsletter Deadline: News and more ...... 7 First Wednesday of the month

For your diary Contact John Arney ph 9525 0449, [email protected] Our diary is not very full at the moment as we wait on developments with Covid19 restrictions. Wed, 19 Aug Sutherland Group meeting Art, Culture and Botanical Science with Roseanne Quinnell Are you ready for video conferencing? Be prepared, follow this link Plus, read more in For the August Zoom Meeting below. Do send in your photos for our virtual table. But practise your video skills for the September meeting. See note below. From 7.15 pm for 7:30 pm start, on Zoom, register here for July, see below. Thurs, 3 Sep Joseph Banks Reserve working bees Sun, 6 Sep Covid 19 restrictions will be observed, but there Is plenty of space to work in. Wed, 16 Sep Sutherland Group meeting: Spring flower spectacular and 50 years of Joseph Banks Reserve. We’d like to see your garden on a video f you can. Details on page 8 From 7.15 pm for 7:30 pm start, Zoom meeting as described below. September Planting weekend with OFF Details were provided in our July newsletter September The Illawarra Grevillea Garden Open days. 5, 6, 12, 13 September are all open days, with very popular plant sales. Sat, 10 October Silky Oaks: We have been invited to join the Menai Wildflower Group for a day at Peter and Margaret Olde’s, Silky Oaks Garden at Oakdale. Members from the East Hills Group will also attend. Updates later. Jan 2021 Walking at Charlotte Pass: We are due for our biennial week-long excursion to the Snowy Mountains in Jan / Feb 2021. However, at the present time, no decision has been made on the opening dates for the Pygmy Possum Lodge. They hope to be in by July for the present winter season. The Lodge committee have prepared a Covid19 occupation plan for the lodge: kitchen 5 persons at any time, keep your cutlery, plates and mugs in your allocated cupboard. Lounges have been moved out of the drotedstining area and tables and chairs re-arranged for compliant social distancing. Extra disinfectants / equipment will be available for more rigorous cleaning. Although it is still a way off for us, we will have to move quickly to get the preferred dates. Please let me know your preferences for a 7 night stay starting Sunday 17, 24, or 31 Jan. (or other date if you have a suggestion) Contact John Arney on 0418 607 685. 12-17 September ANPSA Biennial Conference 2021: Australian flora - past present future 2021 In 2021, the conference is being hosted by the Australian Plants Society NSW at the Kiama Pavilion in the beautiful village of Kiama on the pristine south coast. To register an expression of interest, click the 'Register your interest' button and we will keep you informed of events as they are confirmed. For the August Zoom Meeting Zoom meetings will most likely be with us for the rest of the year. Please join us. It is free and easy for members to join our Zoom meeting. You can sit at home and enjoy our speaker and native plants. This is how it will work. • From 7.15 pm onwards on Wednesday 19 Aug, click on the Zoom link below. You can use a computer, iPad or mobile phone. Australian Plants Society Sutherland Group Zoom Meeting When Wednesday 19 August, 2020 7:15 pm – 8:30pm Eastern Australia Time – Sydney https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82788734027?pwd=T081MzlnVXVDRU9CTHRtUUpWekZ0dz09 • If you click on your link after 7.30 pm, you can still join the meeting. • If this is your first time for Zoom, when you click on the link, you will be asked to download and launch the Zoom software, so allow more time. We highly recommend you download Zoom at least a day before the meeting and practise with a friend or family member. It is free for you to use. For a more detailed guide see our previous newsletters articles on this. Our newsletter archive is here.

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Our meeting format • At 7.30 pm, the Zoom host will mute everyone to block background noise. The meeting chair will welcome everyone and recap good Zoom practice. • Our emcee for the night will introduce our speaker. • Our feature speaker will speak for about 30 minutes, sharing their screen at the same time so you can see their presentation. • After questions, we will have a short plant table segment hosted by Dan Clarke, the APS NSW Conservation officer. If you would like to participate in this segment, please email your plant photo(s) (especially if they are with insects this month) to Dan before the meeting at: [email protected] • We will finish with 10 minutes of Q&A where you can ask questions by typing a question using Chat or raising your hand. During the meeting • John Aitken, as Zoom host, will mute everyone except the chair and the speaker, so we cannot hear any background noise from your place. • If you have any trouble during the meeting, phone or email our tech troubleshooters John Aitken ([email protected]) or Ralph Cartwright (0416 030 872). • If you need to, you can move away from your computer and return to the meeting at any time. Past Zoom meetings recorded These APS NSW Zoom meetings are available as youtube recordings: Dieter Hochuli’s presentation in July is here Dan Clarke at the virtual plant table, identifying plant photos from Sutherland Group members at meetings in July is here There is a growing archive available on our YouTube Channel Other groups are holding zoom meetings too, so look at the APS NSW calendar for other meeting options. Rhonda Daniels At the July Meeting Insects in remnant bushland and urban areas. We were privileged to receive a talk from Associate Professor Dieter Hochuli at the July Meeting. Dieter runs a lab in the School of Environment and Life and Environmental Sciences at University of Sydney. I studied with Dieter in 2008 and had a great time doing Entomology, a second-year course where we had to put an insect collection together! Dieter spends most of his time conducting a lot of urban-ecology work on insects, spiders and birds in the urban environment. Dieter began by outlining the importance of insects and other invertebrates worldwide, but showed that European scientists have showed a large decrease (75% decline in biomass) in insects in Germany. This has been linked to overuse of insecticides and other drivers. There have also been similar studies in the US where insecticides have caused a decrease in honey bees. A suite of scientific papers have been published where entomologists have analysed data and expressed concern that species in many insect groups around the world have declined drastically due to various anthropogenic drivers. However, this has resulted in a backlash of unfavourable responses from other entomologists, who are sceptical of the analyses and the conclusions drawn. Dieter highlighted that Australia is still basically leading the charge worldwide on vertebrate extinctions, especially mammals but emphasised that rigorous science needs to be undertaken to galvanise support towards accepted trends in insects decline. Protests have occurred in Sydney to highlight the plight of the European honey bee, but Dieter pointed out that no protests have occurred for any native Australian bees, despite the fact that NSW has at least 20 species! Dieter pointed out that threatened species legislation is not fit to deal with insect extinctions and that current data and modelling underestimates the numbers of insects that are likely threatened with extinctions. The main reason we do not have many insects listed as threatened, is that we know so little about so much. Dieter took a question on whether promoting insects as a food source might help provide

APS Sutherland – August 2020 3 exposure and concern for insects. Dieter does not think this would work as it is believed that although kids are interested in insects (and nature generally), this interest stops after about 12 years old. Hence, it is hard to get adults interested. A better approach would be to simply expand research into poorly known insect species now. Dieter moved onto his passion of studying biodiversity in cities and investigating whether it even thrives in some cases. Example urban successes are the Ring-tailed Possum, the Powerful Owl and the Golden Orb-weaver Spider. Dieter constantly has students who are more than happy to research these and other species in urban areas. It is thought that cities impose an additional evolutionary pressure on plants and animals. Dieter and his students investigate how species adapt to this. One of Dieter’s students studied whether large intact bushland areas supported different insect species; compared to urban bushland (fragmented) remnants; compared to parklands which might have open grass, planted trees and landscaped native plantings. Specific insects included in the study were beetles (coleopterans), flies (dipterans), bugs (hemipterans) and hymenopterans (bees, ants and wasps). Early data showed that the higher the diversity of native plant species, the higher the diversity of insects. However, there were secondary drivers for diversity in different insect groups such as number of flowering plants and proximity to green space. Dieter highlighted the notorious weed Lantana (Lantana camara). A study found that if Lantana was present in remnant bushland areas, the diversity of small bird species was likely higher (very controversial!). Trials were done where fake plasticine caterpillars were placed on plants in bushland, with results showing that caterpillars were attacked more, surprisingly by invertebrates, in Lantana- infested areas as opposed to non-Lantana areas. Another study was highlighted which focused on mosquitoes and urban wetlands. Results showed that there was no strong evidence linking managing wetlands for conservation with increased mosquito risk. Another study focused on how air pollution affects bee memory and navigation. The research methods showed that bees will stick out their proboscis in response to a volatile / chemical in the air. Results showed that bees take longer to learn and respond to pollution and they forget these volatiles more quickly compared to volatiles produced from flowers and other plants. Hence, bees may be adapting to ignore pollution in the environment. Following Dieter’s talk, our members had photos of insects captured visiting their plants, for the plant table and Dieter chipped in most helpfully with the identification. Thanks to members for sending these in. There were some fascinating insects captured. Dieter also brought a website to our attention titled the Urban Naturalist. https://urbanfieldnaturalist.org/ This is a website aimed at getting people out and about in nature and documenting their observations through story telling. I aim to check it out. Dan Clarke A recording is available on the APS NSW YouTube channel here

On the plant table see a replay on youtube: The plant table is a great way to see what grows Myrtaceae well in Sutherland Shire and what flowers when. Leptospermum lavigatum (Coastal tea tree) Large While Zoom meetings have replaced face to face shrub to about 4 m tall, it grows in our local area meetings, please email some photos instead as on sand dunes behind the beach. It can plant specimens. You can email by reply to the sometimes dominate beachside landscapes. Has newsletter or to Dan Clarke at: green-blue leaves to about 3 cm long by about 5 [email protected] mm wide. Nice white flowers flowers produced in Plant steward Phil Keane’s nursery, Ausplants R moderate numbers, will likely flower more heavily Us, is in Sutherland. Visits by appointment or with pruning. Grow on a sandy soil with good check out sale days, often Saturday 12 – 4:30 on drainage. Prune to shape. https://www.facebook.com/ausplants/` Leptospermum ‘Pink Cascade’ Thought to be a Ph: 0435 410 857 or [email protected] hybrid between L. polygalifolium and L. On our Zoom plant Table, Dan Clarke presents a continentale. Very stunning shrub with an arched collection of photos sent in by members. habit. It grows to about 1 m tall and produces masses of pink flowers. Give a moist and well- At the July meeting, insects were an added focus drained soil. Use on slopes, banks and rockeries. of attention with some great results. Prune to shape. Passers by will stop to admire it!

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Corymbia cultivars (Flowering Gum) One of the Grevillea sericea (Pink Spider-flower) A locally flowering gums with bright pink, red or orange common shrub, mainly on sandstone country with flowers. Slow growing to begin with then can reach pungent leaves and spider-like inflorescences 5 m or more. Give good drainage and some sun. ranging from light to dark pink. Easy to grow and Can be cut right back (above graft union) to bee-attracting. encourage vigorous new growth. Very large and attractive capsules produced after flowering.

Grevillea sericea with blue banded bee (Amegilla) Corymbia hybrid with Fiddler Beetles (Eupoecila (ph: R. Cartwright) australasiae) and a fly (Ph: K. Thorn) Grevillea buxifolia (Grey Spider Flower) Found Proteaceae locally on pure sandstone and sandy soils, it has Grevillea ‘Ivory Whip’ A shrub to 2 x 2 m, it is in short rounded leaves and terminal grey-spider the mould of a lot of the other large-flowered inflorescences. Grow in well-drained soil in sun or cultivated grevilleas. However, it has pure white- semi-sun positions. cream flowers with the strongly dissected foliage with narrow segments. Great for shrubberies and Grevillea ‘Kimberly Gold’ Thought to be a hybrid rockeries, allow a well-drained soil which can be between G. wickhammii and G. miniata, this one is on the sandy or clay side. Prune after flowering a stunner! Golden yellow inflorescences with grey and to keep it tidy. It can form a dense weeping green hard and jagged leaves, it originates from shape the Kimberly region of Australia. Grows to about 2 x 2 metres. Open plant but very attractive. Likely Grevillea ‘Golden Lyre’ A natural hybrid grevillea, needs full sun and good drainage to thrive. it grows to 2 m high x 3 m wide with cascading/weeping branches. Has finely dissected foliage with narrow segments with long yellow- green inflorescences which makes it very attractive. Prune to shape and to promote flowering. Give it a well-drained soil in a sunny position. It can be fast growing. Grevillea Arenaria A spreading shrub to about 3 m tall, it is found naturally in NSW, mainly in the tablelands and western slopes of NSW but can be found in areas around Lake Burragorang. Has glaucous elliptic leaves and flowers with an interesting mix of colours: red, green and cream. Flowers are produced in the wild in small- numbered clusters but there is a cultivar called ‘Spider Mist’ which produces large inflorescences. Grows well in a well-drained soil but will also tolerate a heavier soil. Tolerant to frost and bird- attracting. Reported to be hardy. Grevillea ‘Winpara Gold’ (Family: Proteaceae) Dense shrub 2 m tall by 3 m wide, it is a cross between G. thelemannia x olivacea. Fast growing, plant on well-drained soils. Attractive gold inflorescences produced amongst linear leaves. Grevillea ‘Kimberley Gold’ Excellent screen and for birds. Des and Marie O’Connor

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Grevillea bronwenae A plant from the south-west Senna artemisioides (Silver Cassia) An inland of WA, it also has a restricted distribution and is NSW shrub that has a complex range of forms and considered threatened. Some members are buying subspecies, it has pinnate blue-grey leaves which and growing it in Sydney. Can grow to 2 m tall. contrast stunningly with the yellow rotate flowers. Reportedly needs a well-drained soil and plenty of A very attractive plant. Needs a sandy soil with air flow, can be grafted. Flowers are red to orange- good drainage to thrive. Grows to about 3 m tall. red and quite attractive. Leaves are linear, narrow There are some specimens at Joseph Banks and sharp pointed. Gardens. Hakea sericea (Needlebush) A shrub to 3 m tall with white axillary flowers followed by conspicuous woody follicles, it grows naturally in the Sydney area. Usually found on sandstone and shale- sandstone transition, it is relatively easy to grow. Good bird and bee attractant. Very spikey foliage so consider where you plant it. Rutaceae Boronia ledifolia (Sydney Boronia) Local Sydney Boronia which is very common and showy in sandstone bushland with bright pink flowers. Grows to about 1 m tall typically with linear green leaves which can be trifoliate. Beautiful showy pink 4-petaled flowers. Featured here in Royal National Park with some insects on board. Senna artemisoides with green carpenter bees at Can be tricky to grow but tips include planting on a Sylvan Grove, Picnic Point (Ph: R. Cartwright) slight slope, on a well-drained soil and keeping the Xanthorrhoeaceae roots well-drained and cool. Xanthorrhoea platyphylla Grows in the south-west Anthericaceae of WA, it is a typical grass tree growing to Thysanotus tuberosus (Fringe Lily) A Sydney potentially 3 m tall with a trunk to about 0.5 m. The native that has appeared on the plant table in our flower spikes can be about 1.6 m long! Reportedly Zoom meetings from photographed bushland easy to grow in a sunny spot on well-drained soil. plants in sandstone areas, it is unknown how it Xanthorrhoea glauca A NSW native that is grows in cultivation. It is a herbaceous lily with wiry commonly propagated and sold. It grows naturally stems and very conspicuous 6-tepaled flowers; 3 on the tablelands and western slopes as well as of which are fringed with tassle-like segments. the north coast. A typical grass tree with a trunk Webpages state that it is difficult to grow but potentially to 5 m tall and flowers spikes to 2 m tall. should be tried in a pot to start with. It can grow quite quickly once established. Grow in Likely needs to be propagated from seed. a sunny spot in well-drained soil. Haemodoraceae Hardenbergia violacea (Purple Coral-pea / Happy Anigozanthos cultivars (Kangaroo Paws) Wanderer) This species grows all over NSW and Native to WA; strappy-leaved perennial with has a variety of forms from climbing to sprawling to elongated inflorescences in varying colours. Phil shrubby. The climbing form is very showy and can stated that the tall ones are easier to grow and the grow vigorously along fences and trellises. opposite goes for the small ones. Give good Beautiful purple flowers in August/September – it drainage and a sunny position. Cultivars include is usually always a selected plant in native ‘Yellow Gem’ and ‘Lavender Queen’. ‘Bush Pearl’ gardens. Not overly fussy, but some forms do with stunning pink flowers, made an appearance at better than others. the July Zoom meeting. There is also a white-flowered form. More information can be found at these websites: Acacia fimbriata (Fringed Wattle) A 4-6 m tree www.anspa.org.au www.anbg.gov.au which has lemon flowers in last quantities. There is plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au www.wikipedia.org also a dwarf form 1-2 m tall. Very hardy plant but www.austplants.com.au/plant-database will do better in good soil with some moisture. Don’t forget: Dan Clarke has all the monthly plant Prune lightly for a nice open-shaped shrub or table information compiled in his Plant Table prune harder and regularly for a dense hedge-like Master list document available from our web site. plant. One of the really attractive wattles! Dan Clarke Plant Table Masterlist replay of the plant table

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News and More Joseph Banks Native Plants Reserve - Celebrating 50 years In 2020, we are celebrating 50 years of Joseph Banks Native Plants Reserve at Kareela. Sutherland Group is even older, having formed in 1963. This month – the history of our interpretive signs, building on the plant labels discussed last month. As well as the metallic plant name labels at Joseph Banks Reserve, a related aspect of the educational experience of the reserve is the set of interpretive signs designed and installed by Sutherland Group. In 2000, we designed and installed a set of five signs: Acacias, Banksias, Ferns, Gardening with Australian plants, and Palms (funded by the Palm Society). Lindy Selby, the daughter of members Trish and Les Fuller, designed the waratah and flannel flower drawing for the sign in the Sutherland Group garden. The signs are photo- engraved aluminium (black text on silver background) on timber backing boards on timber posts. The signs were unveiled at an official event by Sutherland councillor Genevieve Rankin, who lived in my street at the time. They have stood the test of time well, although they do have some scratches, and two signs were relocated as part of the masterplan works in 2014.

In 2010, in preparation for the reserve hosting an APS gathering, I designed some “temporary” signs to provide information. These were laminated A4 colour sheets, and installed on boards and branch posts by John Arney. These also lasted surprisingly well (better than some plants), with the laminated signs occasionally reprinted and replaced. In 2015, Sutherland Group applied for a federal government Stronger Communities grant and we eventually received $5,000 with our group providing funds and in-kind support. I designed another 23 signs. Some of these matched the old numbered posts about features, such as the rainforest, natural area and the silver garden, and others were new such as explaining botanical names, seeds and animals, and highlighting key tree species. It was a big project to get the text right, choose appropriate illustrations, get everything checked and find a company to match the original simple but durable signs. The signs were made quickly and to a high standard by a sign company, Singleton Moore Signs, just round the corner from the reserve. After much painting, screwing, gluing and sticking, we finished installing the signs on the day of the official opening of the Stage 2 works in July 2017 (thanks very much Bruce Simpson), and I still have silicone sealant on my black jacket. We now have 28 interpretive signs which provide an important source of easy-to-read information for visitors – and I have ideas for a few more topics. If you have any photos from the early days particularly from the 1970s and 1980s, please send to me for our 50th anniversary Powerpoint presentation: [email protected]. Rhonda Daniels In flower The Acacia garden is the place to be with many species in flower now, from small shrubs (A. ‘Little Flori’) to shrubs (A. denticulosa) to trees (A. fimbriata), so plan a visit to enjoy some amazing acacias or wonderful wattles. The golden flowers are a highlight, but so is the variety of leaf form. APS Sutherland – August 2020 7

Acacia triptera (Photo: R. Daniels) Over in the sunny garden behind the information kiosk, we have Grevillea petrophiloides in flower with pink poker-like flowers on very long stems high above the foliage right next to Hakea bucculenta, also with pinkish poker-like flowers. Seeing these two species in flower together, it is easy to understand the suggestion of combining Grevillea and Hakea into the one genus. Over near the pond, which is drained for maintenance and safety work, there is our annual patch of greenhood orchids – very easy to miss. I’ll have to check Margaret Bradhurst’s book Native Orchids of Southern Sydney for the exact species of Pterostylis. Many visitors were enjoying the reserve on our last Sunday working bee, with several groups having a picnic lunch on the terrace and children exploring with their parents. Rhonda Daniels Pot recycling Sutherland Council nursery at 345 The Boulevarde, Gymea is now collecting plastic pots for recycling. Drop your clean, empty black pots off when buying some full ones. Membership If you are not receiving the monthly APS NSW enewsletter from enewsletter editor Rhonda Daniels, please email [email protected] so we can sort out whether we have your correct email address in our records. The April 2020 issue was emailed to members on 31 March. Members’ night - September Meeting Sutherland APS also received a certificate of appreciation for volunteer work from the Member It is a bit of a tradition that our September meeting for Cook, Scott Morrison. would be a chance to showcase members’ gardens and related arts and crafts skills with a Springtime theme. That isn’t going to work so well this year. So, we are inviting members to put together a short video visit to their gardens for the plant table. Ideally, 2 – 3 minutes would be a good length. Of course, photos are still welcome as usual. Ralph has set up a dropbox location that you can submit videos to and he will play producer/ editor: https://www.dropbox.com/request/EljCz3iR1AeESD03xMu0 Yes, when you open the like, it shows that it is hosted by Friends of Royal and it is for “Plant Table Videos”. Leonie Hogue

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More notes from Masterchef Our youtube channel has moved There were a few stand out bush food stories over For technical reasons our youtube channel has the season. They also featured in recipes in the been rearranged. Plenty of zoom meetings are final. being archived there so have a look and subscribe. Geraldton Wax Oil (from Chamelaucium For example, from last month: uncinatum) was fairly popular. (A recipe was Insects in urban bushland included in our July newsletter. This link is https://youtu.be/Iia_yTqPe_k another.) Plant Table July 2020 Davidson Plums (usually Davidsonia jerseyana) https://youtu.be/cc0DcIvPOrQ were very popular. Sometimes compared to stewed rhubarb, it can be used to add a tart and tasty balance to sweet dishes. This was frequently applied in the form of a dried powder. It can also add amazing colour. See promotional link. Riberries (Syzygium luehmannii) also got a look in with Lily Pily fruits served up dried or fresh to add a bit of a sour edge to things, similar to how the Davidson Plum flavours were used. The finger lime (Citrus australasica) has already become widely available and certainly was used fairly often. Some SBS viewing? Dr Dieter Hochuli, our speaker last month, appeared briefly on SBS news last night to comment on an important new report from the Australian Conservation Foundation on the extinction crisis in Australia's cities. You can find him in the story starting at about the 42 minute mark here: https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/1766787651954 Tongue in cheek, he commented that: "Always great to get feedback from colleagues and friends on a brief media appearance. Comments on content and message: 0 Comments on stuff in Pistachio Financier, Davidson Plum and Raspberry background: 9 and rising." Sorbet and Meringue (ph: MasterChef, Channel 10) Although everything was supposed to be available from Coles it is a bit of a semantics thing. I have not seen such an array of ingredients at a Coles store. I suppose there has to be enough demand. The Australian Superfood Co was a sponsor of the program providing some of these ingredients more directly. Read their media release for more information. These are all relatively easy to grow in Sydney, so do a bit of research and see how you go. Select this link to hear Jock Zonfrillo on cooking with Geraldton Wax: https://www.facebook.com/MasterChefAU/videos/jock-reveals- his-favourite-garden-ingredients-/462415174331997/ From twitter @dieterhochuli Peter Shelton

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Planting bush tucker at home Collected by Banks and Solander in 1770 Helen Young wrote in the Weekend Australian on The above heading links to a species list. There growing bush tucker plants. It is probably behind a you will also find a link to digitised collection of the paywall, but it is good to see bush tucker in the botanical art created on the Endeavour’s journey. gardening pages. Most of the popular choices are mentioned, but Plectranthus graveolens was Dampiera stricta (Blue Dampiera) is found along actually a new one for me. It is found from Cape Australia’s east coast. It is named after one of York Peninsula to south east New South Wales. Banks and Cook’s predecessors in William Dampier. It was originally named after an English Bishop and placed in Goodenia. It remains in the family Goodeniaceae.

Bush Basil in bloom (Plectranthus graveolens) D. stricta (Ph: B. Walters at anpsa.org.au ) (ph: The Australian) Follow this link for the whole story.

More on edible plants for your garden Narelle Happ presented on Native edible plants for your garden with the Menai Wildflower Group in August. Here’s the link for the zoom recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkk2HQcw-W8&t=1242s And do check out Narelle’s little place on the www: https://www.agardenforlife.com.au/

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