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Southern Highlands January 2018 Newsletter Issue 126 January, 2018 AUSTRALIAN PLANTS Southern Highlands Group SOCIETY …your local native garden club President Kris Gow [email protected] Vice President Trisha Arbib [email protected] Secretary Kay Fintan [email protected] Treasurer Bill Mullard [email protected] Newsletter Editor Sarah Cains [email protected] Communications Erica Rink [email protected] Committee Member Louise Egerton [email protected] After rain Hakea petiolaris shows off its magnificent foliage. Editor: Sarah Cains - [email protected] !1 of !12 Newsletter Issue 126 January, 2018 Welcome to SHAPS for 2018. Your committee has been working on an interesting programme of speakers and outings for the year. We hope you will be able to join us for as many activities as possible. Please bring along interested friends on a ‘visitor’ basis and encourage them to join our group. In This Issue P2/3/4 - 2018 Diary Dates P4 - Snippets P6 - Hakeas in general and H. petiolaris i particular - Fran Mullard P7 - Propagating Native plants - Kristine Gow and Sarah Cains P8 - The Naming of Plants (part two) - Jenny Simons P8 - My Adventures in Natural Dyeing using Native Plants - Tricia Arbib P10 - Two Book Reviews - Geoff and Sarah Cains Diary Dates for 2018 General Meetings - These take place on the first Thursday in the months of February, April, June, August and November Place: Moss Vale CWA rooms, Elizabeth St, between the Wingecarribee Council building and the Fire Station. Time: 2.00pm Outings - Outings are arranged for the first Thursday in the month following the CWA meeting. Months: May, July and September (two outings). 2.00pm unless otherwise advertised. Committee Meetings - These take place on the third Monday of the month at 2.00pm (no meeting in December). Any member is welcome to attend. January First committee meeting of the year. 1pm at the Roundabout, Kangaloon Rd, then at Kris’s February February 1st 2018. Don’t miss our first meeting when we are privileged to have Elizabeth Jacka as our speaker. With her husband, Ken, Liz has recently moved to the Highlands after retiring from her Melbourne career as an esteemed Landscape Architect and Town Planner. Below, from Liz, the title and subject of her talk which will be illustrated with photographs. Please come and bring interested friends. Boddy’s Eastern Park Nursery, Geelong - recollections and reflections In 1951 my parents, Morton and Mollie Boddy, took the brave step of establishing an Australian Plant Nursery at a time when Australian plants were not at all in vogue. I plan to talk about their motivation for Editor: Sarah Cains - [email protected] !2 of !12 Newsletter Issue 126 January, 2018 doing that, who and what their early influences were, how the nursery evolved, how they sourced their plant materials, and their work in promoting the use of Australian plants in the home garden and the broader landscape. Liz Jacka Feb 19th - Committee meeting at Erica’s March 1st Excursion to Roma Dix’s native garden. Bourne Close, Mittagong (RHS at the end of the cul de sac) at 2.00pm to see this delightfully modest natural garden developed and nurtured over years by one woman. Monday, March 19th Committee Meeting Louise’s April 5th General meeting with speakers and photos of ANPSA January Conference in Tasmania Monday, April 16th committee meeting Bill’s Sunday 6th May outing to Grevillea Park Monday, 21st May committee meeting Trisha’s June 7th General meeting - speaker subject - Birds Monday, 16th June Committee Meeting Kay’s July 5th Outing to Erica’s Mittagong garden followed by lunch at the pub Monday,16th July Committee meeting Sarah’s August 2nd General meeting with speaker Pat Hall on black cockatoos Monday, 20th August committee meeting Erica’s September 6th Bushwalk at Caves Creek, off Wilson Drive at Hill Top Monday, 17th Committee Meeting at Kris’s October 4th General Meeting with speaker, Bushcare Officer, Jennifer Slattery Monday, 15th Committee meeting at Bill’s November 1st AGM with speaker wombat rescuer/carer. Monday, 19th Committee meeting at Louise’s Sunday December 2nd Christmas Gathering Editor: Sarah Cains - [email protected] !3 of !12 Newsletter Issue 126 January, 2018 General Meetings Outings Committee 1st Thursday 2pm Feb. April, 1st Thursday in next Meetings June, August, Oct, Nov. CWA month after CWA meeting 3rd Monday of month Moss Vale 2pm. at 2pm Jan 22nd Jan Kris Feb 1st Feb - speaker 19th Feb Elizabeth Jacka/an early native Erica’s nursery in Victoria Mar 1st March - visit to Mittagong 19th March private garden. Optional afternoon Louise’s tea together in Mittagong cafe. April 5th April presentation - 16th April ANPSA Conference/Tasmania Jan Bill’s 2018 May Sunday 6th May 21st May Visit to Grevillea Park Trish’s June 7th June 18th June Speaker / subject - native birds Kay’s July 5th July 10.00am Mittagong 16th July garden visit. Lion Rampant for a Sarah’s pub lunch Aug 2nd August 20th August Speaker : Pat Hall (we hope!) Erica’s Sep 6th September 17th September Caves Creek walk - off Wilson Kris’s Drive, Hill Top Oct 4th October 15th October Speaker, WSC Bushcare officer, Bill’s Jen Slattery Nov 1st November AGM 19th November Speaker - Wombat rescue/carer Louise’s Dec Sunday 2nd December Christmas Party Lunch Snippets Proposed Native Planting - Kangaloon/Boardman Roads Roundabout SHAPS Committee is always seeking ways to heighten the profile of native plants in the district and display them as desirable plants for gardens and parks. Kristine Gow made the suggestion that we take up Editor: Sarah Cains - [email protected] !4 of !12 Newsletter Issue 126 January, 2018 an idea seen in the Northern Tablelands where various garden groups have ‘ownership’ of roundabouts in Armidale and have planted them up in representative styles. Discussions are underway with WSC for our group to undertake a similar project here in The Highlands. We are encouraged by discussions so far and have been asked by WSC officer, Greg Bray, to submit a plan and planting list for the recently refreshed Roundabout mentioned above. SHAPS can either make a financial contribution to WSC for plant purchase, or buy/donate the plants. WSC will plant, weed, prune and water the planting once it is installed. There are restrictions in height (no more than 400mm) for Roundabout plantings, and given the site fairly harsh growing conditions (very hot sun and frost exposure), ideas are centring around simple architectural forms and the use of texture and foliage colour rather than emphasis on flowers. Plans are leaning towards a sectioned, mosaic-style planting using repetition of five hardy species. SHAPS has asked that we be permitted to install a sign nearby bearing our logo in order to heighten our profile and advocate for native plants in the district. There is no answer on this question so far. Committee is working on a plant list and we will keep members informed of progress with this project. Remember this line of Melaleuca linarifolia? They are in the car park at Moss Vale on the north side of the huge new Police Department building. Last year I expressed concern that their root systems have been cut severely to make way for the new build and that the trees might die. But it seems that all is well, so far. In early January I walked past the building works and took this photo which shows new growth appearing on the south side of the trees where they were previously deprived of light. Amazingly, they look quite healthy. Here’s hoping that this show the possibility of a recovery underway. Erica found an interesting and unusual plant on Sylvia David’s plant stall at the Bundanoon Ramble last year. Formerly known as Humea elegans it now goes by the name of Calomeria amaranthoides. A tall, aromatic, biennial herb, it grows vigorously for the first year after germination, forming a large-leafed plant similar to tobacco. In the second year it flowers profusely, displaying spectacular plumes of coral-pink bracts terminating in tiny, white flowers. These give off a heady perfume,resulting in the common name, Incense Bush. It produces masses of seeds, but relatively few are viable. After flowering, the plant dies. Seedlings transplant readily. Naturally growing on moist river flats, it prefers a sunny to semi shaded position and likes water in the hot weather. Calomeria amaranthoides is said to be difficult to source, but now we know it is in the district, you might be lucky and find for one for your garden. Reference: Encyclopaedia of Australian Plants - W R Elliott and D L Jones. SC Editor: Sarah Cains - [email protected] !5 of !12 Newsletter Issue 126 January, 2018 Hakeas in general and H. petiolaris in particular…(see photos front page) Fran Mulard Belonging to the Proteaceae family, the Hakea genus contains some 150 or so species, all of which are endemic to Australia. Over half of these species are confined to the south-western area of Western Australia, the remainder being endemic to areas of the east coast. Hakeas are attractive, small to medium woody shrubs to tall trees, most of which have conspicuous flowers. Many hakeas have terete (circular in cross-section), sharp-pointed leaves, and are often known as “needle-bushes”. Others have broad, stiff leaves and are excellent foliage plants. All hakeas have nut- like, woody fruits of various shapes and sizes, which split in two to release two-winged seeds. In all but a few species, the fruit remains intact, or persistent, until the bush dies or becomes damaged by fire. Due to the persistence of the wood follicle, the seeds are easy to access and easy to propagate.
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