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AUSTRALIAN NATIVE PLANTS SOCIETY CANBERRA REGION (INC) Journal Vol. 19 No. 09 March 2019 ISN 1447-1507 Print Post Approved PP100000849 Contents President's Report Ben Walcott 3 President's Report President's Report 2017–2018 Lucinda Royston 4 ANPSA News 6 Loss of Mature Native Trees Geoff Butler and Sarah Sharp 8 By BenWalcott All the Wednesday Walks reports Searching for Orchids at Smokers Flat Roger farrow 12 Welcome to 2019. I would like to have been uploaded onto the new What to Buy? Masumi Robertson 17 thank you all for your patience as we website and are now in the process Propagation Group, How We Work Nola McKeon 22 of being organised. get used to our new membership What else does the Propagation Group do? Nola McKeon 25 system. There have been numerous There will be a place for Field Trips Return to 'Ballyhooly' Margaret Ning 27 challenges to get it to fit our needs reports as well as other items Insect Pollination of the Endangered but generally it is working well. members may request. It is going Merimbula Star-Hair (Astrotricha sp. Wallagaraugh) Roger Farrow 30 to take some months, perhaps Experimenting with Pterostylis pedunculata Janet Russell 36 The previous system was a manual several years, to get the website fully Native Cherries are a bit mysterious Greg Muller 38 one that took constant attention populated with what we want. Study Group Notes Brigitta Wimmer 41 by the membership secretary and ANPS Canberra contacts and membership details inside back cover involved many steps to maintain. It is important to remember that the The new system is much more website isn’t just for us, it is our face Cover: Clematis leptophylla, Sutton, NSW; Photo: Gail Ritchie Knight automated and will require much to the public. We want it to be useful to them and encourage the use of less effort to maintain. native plants in gardens. The new website is still a work I would remind members that 16 The deadline dates for submissions are 1 February (for in progress. We decided that the Journal articles March is our autumn plant sale and The Journal is a forum for the exchange of members' March edition), 1 May (June), 1 August (September) membership system had priority we will need lots of help setting up and others' views and experiences of gardening with, and 1 November (December). and now we can add the other propagating and conserving Australian plants. Send articles or photos to: on the Friday before and then on the essential material. day. All contributions, however short, are welcome and Journal Editor may be accompanied by photographs or drawings. Gail Ritchie Knight We are planning a whole section These sales are important because The editor reserves the right without exception to edit 1612 Sutton Road of the site for Plants, (we are still they get lots of native plants into all articles and include or omit images as appropriate. Sutton NSW 2620 looking for an appropriate name), gardens and provide significant Submit photographs as either electronic files, such e-mail: [email protected] which will have information on interaction between the public and as JPEGs, or prints. Set your digital camera to take tel: 0416 097 500 specific plants that do well in our members of our Society. Please help high resolution photos. Please send JPEGs separately Paid advertising is available in this Journal. Contact region and how to plant, prune, out. and not embedded in a document. If photos are too the Editor for details. propagate, purchase and generally large to email, copy onto a CD or USB drive and send Society website: http://nativeplants-canberra.asn.au look after plants. it by post. Please enclose a stamped, self-addressed Printed by Elect Printing, Fyshwick, ACT envelope if you would like your prints returned. If you There will be a section on plants http://www.electprinting.com.au/ have any queries please contact the editor. in bloom this month, as well as people’s favourite plants. Original text may be reprinted, unless otherwise indicated, provided an acknowledgement for the source is given. Permission to reprint non-original material and all drawings must be obtained from the copyright holder. The views and opinions expressed in articles are those of the authors and are not necessarily the views and opinions of the Society. Journal, Australian Native Plants Society, Canberra Region Inc — March 2019 3 provides jointly funded scholarships The next Biennial Conference is in and fellowships under which we have Albany, WA in November 2019. donated an initial payment of $10,000. President's In September, with the stock of our This year we have agreed to support book Australian Plants for Canberra two projects: region gardens and other cool climate areas down to 300+ we have reprinted Report • Michael Cleland via Charles Sturt another 1000 copies. We printed 2000 University to investigate biodiversity copies in 2015 and again in 2016. 2017–2018 benefits from re-instating fire into long unburnt temperate grassy We ran two plant sales again this year. ecosystems; and At the March Autumn Plant sale we had By Lucinda Royston, President, ANPS At the November AGM, Life Membership • Dr Ken Hodgkinson to research the nearly 15,000 plants and sold 11,000; Canberra Region 2017–18 was awarded to Lyndal Thorburn roles of soil properties in the survival at the October Spring Plant sale we of planted native forbs, germination/ had xxx plants, and again sold 11,000. This is a joint Presidents’ report as and Tom Jordan thus acknowledging establishment of native species and Feedback from customers says that Ben Walcott and I shared the role of their long-term and broad-range competition between forbs and most get information about our sales President while I was away for the contribution to ANPS and to its aims and values. grasses of exotic native species. from Facebook and electronic means second half of 2018, travelling to and and from our roadside signs. in Western Australia. As the position A question was raised this year on The Capital Region Landkeepers Trust of Vice-President was vacant, Ben as whether the current ‘member grower’ aims to contribute to the management We have expanded the membership Treasurer took on the President’s role. system may be in conflict with our of this region’s landscape by investing in of the Plant Label Database Team from people and projects. three to 11 members following the Once again, our memberships have Constitution, specifically that no member shall receive or acquire any review of the Plant Label Database and remained at about 300 members with Under advocacy, Council put in Standards Committee in 2107. individual and family memberships. Our financial advantage as a consequence of submissions to: membership fees have remained the their membership. Unfortunately, there was no Autumn • the ACT Government on the Weed Swap event this year as funding same too. Accordingly, Council sought Molonglo River Reserve Draft from the ACT Government (with professional legal advice that In April, Council was very pleased to Management Plan; and money needed for plants) was in confirmed we were not in breach of have Garth Chamberlain volunteer to • the NSW Minister for Environment doubt/not confirmed until it was too the Associations Incorporation Act 1991 be Secretary, after more than a year of expressing our dismay that late to hold the event as planned. though recommended we make a this position being vacant. No Council feral horses are being protected Council had decided not to provide the change to our Constitution to make it meeting was held in June as a number with disregard for fragile alpine funding instead. Fortunately, the ACT consistent with the Act. This was done of council members were away or ecosytems. government did later commit to funding unavailable. with a unanimous vote at the Special We also provided comments to the and Weed Swap was held in November. Meeting held with the September In August, Council decided that there ACT Parks and Conservation Service on members’ meeting. This year, Council has focussed on having would be a benefit to having the Journal a possible PlantSure program aimed a website that meets our needs and is Editor and Bulletin Editor on Council This year, Council decided to donate at reducing invasive species sold in more usable and appealing, particularly and both accepted Council’s invitation $10,000 to the Canberra Nature Map nurseries. to those outside the Society. After and joined Council. Project to support the developing and In January this year the ANPSA Biennial approaching five professional web design implementing of a Weed Location App, Council is developing a Conflict of Conference was held in Hobart. Ben and brand management companies as a component of the Project. Interest policy for the Society and it is Walcott, as ANPSA Vice-President, and about redeveloping our website, we currently out with our sub-groups for We have a partnership with the two other ANPS members represented selected Giraffe based on their quote and them to consider and comment on. Capital Region Landkeepers Trust that us as Delegates at the business meeting. our discussions with them. 4 Journal, Australian Native Plants Society, Canberra Region Inc — March 2019 Journal, Australian Native Plants Society, Canberra Region Inc — March 2019 5 In April, Giraffe created a lite version of monthly Daytime Activities, biannual With all the elected officers the tele- The four objects (should perhaps be our website for us to trial and comment plant sales and Weed Swap. conference included 17 participants. objectives?) specific to ANPSA as stated on as they continue to develop our final • activities that keep the society Time differences ranged from 5pm in in the Bylaws are: website.
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