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Friends of the Brisbane Botanic Gardens and Sherwood Arboretum Newsletter GOVERNANCE § Funding priorities Exciting news came in January, with the arrival $75,000 donated by Brisbane City Council. We plan to use that money wisely to kick start operations that will also raise more money and gain more members. For ABN 20 607 589 873 example, our corporate branding, Connect – Promote - Protect website, social media contacts all need DELECTABLE PLANT TREASURE: to be put on a professional footing. Jim Sacred Lotus, ponds near Administration Building, at Dobbins has been magnanimous with Mt Coot-tha Botanic Garden (J Sim 5 March 2016). his pro bono graphics and media Lilygram design for us and we thank him for all CONTENTS: his help and patience. Paul Plant has come on board the Management Newsletter Governance ............................1 Committee and steering our New Members! .......................1 promotions and publicity efforts. Issue 2, March 2016 New Sources! .........................2 Annual General Meeting Bump the Funny Bone !! .......2 Let's be friends… We decided against that Special INSTAGRAM News ...............2 General Meeting in April and will CONTACTING f BBGSA WEBSITE news .....................2 Our Website focus on working as a team of initial FACEBOOK news..................2 Directors until we stage the first AGM www.fbbgsa.org.au Postcards ................................3 (Membership details here) in August. PLANTspeak ..........................4 Email History EXPOSÉ ...................5 Making things Happen [email protected] FoSA news .............................7 Now we have reached accord with MAIL ADDRESS OBBG news ............................8 Friends of Sherwood Arboretum, we f BBGSA, PO Box 39, MCBG Visitor Centre .......... 10 are forging ahead with events and Sherwood, Qld 4075. Volunteer Guides news ........ 11 activities. However, we still need May Events! ......................... 12 people to do things, organise events, Management Committee activities and so on. Mary Jo Katter (Director) Our Activities ....................... 12 Arno King (Director) CALENDAR ......................... 13 Please put your hand up if you can Jeannie Sim (Director) help. The first priority is getting the John Taylor Membership form................. 14 Growing Friends established. Please Bettina Palmer & contact [email protected] if you Fay O'Sullivan (Volunteer Guides) Catherin Bull want to be part of this activity group! Paul Plant EDITORIAL and Dale Arvidsson (ex officio as Curator of both BBGs) — Mary Jo Katter. Welcome to our second issue! Newsletter Editor: Jeannie Sim Our regular newsletter will be sent out New Members! by email to all connected members and available on our website. We'll print Each quarter, we'll greet and welcome Membership Counter out a colour copy for the MCBG BCC all the new folks to join our gang! 24 March 2016: 82 library to share around as well. The December: intention is to publish quarterly Darryl Mills, Anne Cullinan, issues: March, June, September, and Anita Armstrong, Mario Rey-Conde December 2016, and beyond. and Marjorie Shackleton. January: And since there were no complaints Leona Romaniuk and Judy Haines. received about the name of newsletter, February: Lilygram it is! Sally Hunter and Amanda Meads. March: — Jeannie Sim Paul Harrop. Brisbane Lily planted at October 2015 Launch. Check out lovely blooms in November [MJK] Lilygram Newsletter, Volume 1, Issue 2, March 2016 page 1 New SOURCES! INSTAGRAM news FACEBOOK news § § § This new column will highlight any Another social media outlet has been new blogs or books or magazines that established. If you are on Instagram are interesting (or even exciting!). please check out our new account: Tim Entwisle tweets! @brisbanebotanicgardensfriends Tim is a botanist and currently Director and Chief Executive, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. https://www.rbg.vic.gov.au/staff/prof-tim- entwisle/prof-tim-entwisle Tim Entwisle is also an eager blogger http://talkingplants.blogspot.com.au/ and tweets on twitter https://twitter.com/timentwisle He also recently published a thought- provoking proposal to rename our Australian seasons and add 2 more! Entwisle, Tim 2014. WEBSITE news Our three media outlets have these Sprinter and Sprummer: Australia's common intentions. Changing Seasons. Clayton, VIC: § PURPOSES: CSIRO publishing. (1) to promote our three botanical www.fbbgsa.org.au treasures by frequent postings of § photographs with commentary (2) to connect with like-minded organisations and individuals and celebrate all things botanical. Bump the Funny Contributors: Bone !! Currently, Jeannie Sim and Mary Jo Katter are doing most of the posting! Lady GAGA Ferns! More contributions are avidly sought! New Genus of Ferns: Another launch achievement was the Please send in any "jpgs" to the Gaga, named for Lady Gaga creation of our first website, designed [email protected] address! Already by Jim Dobbins with Mary Jo Katter two student volunteers from QUT's advising and representing the wishes of landscape architecture course have the Steering Committee. signed up to keep watching briefs over one treasure or another. I will get We are still adding and correcting this more! And these guys can really take face to the world, but the important photos (with proper cameras and membership application function is everything)! well and truly functional! We use PayPal to safely gather funds and SUGGESTED TOPICS: "A gametophyte, with its characteristic heart- information. Please drop in regularly to newsy stories shaped structure, which was deemed similar see what's new! to Gaga's wardrobe during her performance at what's flowering / fruiting the 2010 Grammy Awards" Future pages are planned and if you botanical oddities / absurdities You have been warned! wildlife (non-human sorts)! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaga_%28genus%29 have any ideas or requests please let us know at the usual address: heart-stopping works of nature [email protected] jaw-dropping scenery! And so on. § § Lilygram Newsletter, Volume 1, Issue 2, March 2016 page 2 POSTCARDS Voices from the past This new section presents historic postcards related to one or more of our botanic treasures. This time it is the former bush-house in the Old Brisbane Botanic Gardens in 1912. The written descriptions are as informative as the images! The giant clam-shell fountain (and notice the plinth of coral underneath) is a wonderful surprise! I had not realised that Philip MacMahon had created such a fountain in his lovely bush- house, or maybe it is the work of the next Director, J.F. Bailey. Intrigue! Transciptions: (1) Dated 29 September 1912 This was taken by Mr Justins one Sunday morning, In the Botanic Gardens Brisbane; the Background is natural, Various species of Ferns, Orchids, Palms etc., just the kind of place you would like for a Rockery. I always think of John when I see all these pretty places. Love from [?] Jinn. Postcard (1) (2) Dated 29 September 1912 This is another pretty place in the Bush House, Botanic Gardens, the shell is a spraying fountain, with Maiden Hair Fern too lovely to describe; all round, it is a perfect picture to look at, wish you could see it. The weather is perfect now. Would'nt [sic] it be nice if you could get things to grow in the garden at home like this. Love from [?] Jinn. Can you make out the name of the author? My guess is either Finn or Jinn, but neither seems quite right. If there are postcard collectors out there who know more about local providers, I would love to hear from you. Do you have any postcards of OBBG or MCBG? Did they ever make one for Sherwood Arboretum (aka. Sherwood Forest Park)? We'd love to share the knowledge (and stories)! Source: JSim Postcard Collection Acquired 25 May 2015. Postcard (2) Lilygram Newsletter, Volume 1, Issue 2, March 2016 page 3 Nickname: THE INVADER! necessary: the props are vital to hold PLANTspeak up the massive branches. The oldest living plant of known planting date in the world is a Ficus religiosa tree Tropical Fig Trees called the Sri Maha Bodhi planted in the temple at Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka Ficus spp. by King Tissa in 288 BCE. The OBBG specimen is a cutting from this ancient Family MORACEAE Sri Lankan tree which is a cutting off the original tree where Buddha rested. Nickname: OUR BO TREE! Did you now that the Old Brisbane Botanic Gardens in the City has an impressive collection of old fig trees? The 1994 census recorded 80 Ficus OBBG Tree Survey #0327 specimens none of which were the Ficus benghalensis common fig Ficus carica! Indian Banyan At that time, the list included: near QUT boundary, opposite U Block (JSim 2014) Ficus baileyana Origin: from India & Pakistan. H 20.4 x W 35m x DBH c.13m Ficus benghalensis [#10, #40, #327] Ficus benjamina Planted in the 1870s along the Ficus drupacea var. drupacea boundary with the Domain of Old OBBG Tree Survey #1210 Ficus elastica cv. Variegata Government House, this is one of three Ficus retusa Fig Ficus laurifolia thriving banyans in the Gardens. These syn. Ficus truncata Ficus macrophylla trees are sacred to Hindus who believe on Alice Street boundary (JSim 2004) Ficus microcarpa Brahma was transformed into a Origin: from India to Southeast Asia. H 21.9m x W 39m x DBH 4.8m Ficus nehbudi banyan, which retains his spirit. These Ficus obliqua trees live long and grow very large as This fig has an interesting Ficus parcelli the aerial roots from branches stretch identification history and can be Ficus platypoda down to the ground, take root and confused with F. microcarpa. It was Ficus religiosa [#107] become new trunks. Traditionally, the identified as F. truncata in 1994. This Ficus sycomorus Indian merchant caste, called the fig was planted about the 1870s and Ficus truncata [#1210] Banians, set up their market stalls was a huge tree in the photographs Ficus virens beneath the protective canopy. (dated between 1902 and 1910) when Ficus virgata var. virgate Nickname: SCHOLAR'S BANYAN its generous shade was used to shelter Ficus watkinsiana al fresco dining for the adjacent second And several other species (unnamed).
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