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ASGAP Correa Study Group ANPA Correa Study Group ISSN 1039-6926 ABN 56 654 053 676 Leader: Cherree Densley Admin & Editor: Barb & David Pye 9 Koroit-Port Fairy Road 1220 Bacchus Marsh Road Killarney, Vic, 3283 Bullengarook, Vic, 3437 [email protected] [email protected] Ph 03 5568 7226 Ph 03 5428 9369 Membership fees: normal $10.00 electronic $6.00 Newsletter No.40 September 2009 LEADER’S COMMENTS Contents Page Hello Everyone, New Members 2 There has been much happening with our Leader’s Comments (cont.) 2 correas despite the comings and goings of your Leader Team- David and Barb were in the Correa Book update 3 outback for the first few weeks of August and I Notes form Maria Hitchcock 3 have been/will be on a Wildflower Tour with Outback Track Tours from Alice through to Latest registrations with ACRA 4 Perth for 17 days for the first two weeks of New Cultivars 6 September. Then it is just a few days before some of us do Pre-Conference Tours leading Correa alba varieties 7 up to the ASGAP/ANPS Geelong Conference- I Correa Names 7 will have the privilege of joining Rodger and Gwen Elliot who lead the tour through Melbourne (including O’Neil garden)/ Gippsland and Wilson’s Promontory. Hope to catch up EDITORS’ COMMENTS with some of you during the Conference week. This is a shorter newsletter than usual and has New Registrations with ACRA been produced to remind members that subscriptions are due and that the Study Maria has been super busy getting together 5 Group will have a presence at the ASGAP new registrations with ACRA- most of these Conference in Geelong. Some articles are correas have been around for quite a while and included but others have been held over until grown by lots of members and she has decided the next issue in November. Barb and I are to fully describe, photograph and register the just back from holidays and have several names- see page . On the grapevine is news of particularly busy months ahead. another registration application from Neil Marriott with Correa alba ‘Pink Stars’. If a subscription renewal form is attached or enclosed with this newsletter, it means New Member that our records suggest that you are not Welcome to new member Marcia Bonham of financial. Please act immediately on this by Duramana , about 18kms from Bathurst who renewing your membership or notifying us if grows about 15 different correas in that frosty you do not wish to do so. winters/hot dry summer climate. We know you The next newsletter will be issued in will enjoy the information about correas which November. comes via this Newsletter. Please let us know about which correas do best for you. …continued on page 2. 1 NEW MEMBERS bundles and in exchange I received from her cuttings of some 13 new correas. Then Dick We welcome the following new members Burns sent me cuttings of some Tassie Lorna Noonan of Bathurst, NSW correas (alba var rotundifolia forms and a APS Latrobe Valley, Victoria backhouseana from Arthur River. Then a Marcia Bonham of Duramana, NSW quick visit to the Bendigo Sheep and Wool LEADER’S COMMENTS (cont.) show included another visit to Marilyn Sprague’s Goldfields Nursery at Mandurang Name that Correa- Canberra Centenary and another 16 different correas have found 2013. their way into the garden. Did you see the photo of another of Peter During the month of June I embarked on an Ollerenshaw’s new correas (ASGAP Correa ambitious project of making up a data base of Study Group Newsletter No 39) in the July all my correas (full descriptions, accurate issue of Gardening Australia? This newly name, where I got them from (my memory bred correa has been selected as the floral was sorely tested) and comments) and then symbol for the Canberra Centenary taking and putting in 10 cuttings of each of celebrations coming up in 2013 and there them into the glasshouse. It was an was a competition to make up a name for the interesting exercise- if a bit exhausting but I correa- there was only a few weeks before have heaps of polystyrene broccoli boxes the entries had to be in by the end of July, but now filled with tubes and cuttings and your trusty leader did put in an entry- hope it covered in sheets of glass under the benches wins (no clues given out as yet as if the name (in good light but no sun) all labeled (in doesn’t get selected, I’ll use the name some alphabetical order- if you don’t mind). All look other time). The photo in the magazine was good still with little moulding (despite the cold not clear enough to hazard a guess at an months since) and I shall not disturb them for accurate description. some months yet. I had the best success last Thanks for responses from members year with leaving the small plants make lots about their correas during the very hot of roots in the tubes before planting out summer we had (all a distant memory as I directly and haven’t lost one yet- I know we write this in early August with howling do live in a mild climate area and most people winds, hail and cold, cold, cold.) would need to pot up first before attempting to put them out. I used some Debco It is wonderful to have so many members Propagating Mix with two cuttings per tube happy to send in their experiences via our and a light dusting of hormone powder on the Newsletter- please keep it up as every shared ends of the cuttings. My data base runs to piece of information helps us all. I particularly 100 different correas and some 12 closely liked the idea from Isobel Hoegh-Gulbery typed pages. (and I’m still trying to track down from Oberon with their ‘Correa Walk’ of some some correas I can’t seem to find despite 46 plants . You inspired me as I have now put having them some years ago). in lots of correas in new long beds adjacent to pathways all planted up with struck cuttings Tim Boehm’s seedlings and plants from last year’s efforts. To walk and work my On a July day’s round trip to Horsham, pathways here in Killarney I get a real work Dimboola (Wimmera Nursery), Nhill and back out. Just out of interest, I measured up the south through the Little Desert (where the distances the other day to reach a staggering Correa reflexa var scabridula were flowering 600 metres of wandering pathways! (Not to prolifically on low many stemmed bushes), I mention the 360 metres of lawn edges!!- came back with a couple of new correas and that’s got to change). about 15 of the late Tim Boehm’s seedlings. Winter Cuttings Ted Brown of the Wimmera Nursery had been looking after them. After getting the Maria started me off after the last Newsletter plants home, repotting and pruning they with ‘exchanges of cuttings’ in response to seem to have settled into this quite different her ‘wish list’. I managed to help with quite a climate and rewarding me with lots of new few- but did others help? There were quite a growth and some flowers. Badly faded labels few I hadn’t heard of. In the end I sent her 16 will make sorting them out quite a challenge. 2 For a description of one of Tim’ seedlings to Her website is www.wattleday.com/nursery be registered see the description of ‘Vanilla Maria’s aim is to spread as much of her Ice’ later in the Newsletter. collection everywhere so that the varieties survive in at least a few gardens. A lot of the Mini Correa Crawl- Queens Birthday members can propagate from cuttings but Weekend 09 there's a big market out there who want to Terrible weather saw the cancellation of this buy plants in pots. We wish Maria well with proposed event. However, Linda Carson (a this venture. SGAP Warrnambool and District member) Well, that will do for now, please send in your and I had done a recee tour the week before photos to David, some news to either of us and we did find really lovely C reflexas at and good growing of our favourite beautiful Lake Monybiong (we’ll get there next year for and little honeyeater attracting plants. sure) of lovely deep pink and yellow correas as well as quite a few plants of the delicious …Cherree Densley, Leader deep red Mt Richmond C reflexa. CORREA BOOK (update from Maria) ASGAP/ANPS Geelong Conference – Correa ‘Di’s Favourite’ for sale. Good news! The Correa book will be published by Rosenberg Publishers. I have A selling area for plants is being set up at signed the contracts and need to submit the Marcus Oldham College , 145 Pigdons Road, manuscript by December 1. This means that Waurn Ponds on the Wed afternoon – 30th the book will be out around the middle of next September during the Conference - this is the year. It's been a long wait but will be worth it. afternoon set aside for the Study Groups to As I have a page and photo limit, I have to be get together, give presentations and sell fairly ruthless with what I include but I am plants if they want to- from about 3ish I think. trying to make the book as comprehensive as (Lectures continue at Deakin Waterfront possible. Campus until 3pm).
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