Eucryphia Volume 23 No.4 December 2018 Journal of the Australian Plants Society Tasmania Inc. ISSN 1324-3888 Online ISSN 2209 -0452 Westringea© D. rubiifolia Burns $2.20 PRINT POST APPROVAL No. 100004305 Eucryphia December 2018 2 © J. Carter The Australian Native Plants (Australia) Terra Australis Garden constructed in the Australian National Arboretum in Canberra, was officially opened on Sunday 25 November 2018 © B. Champion Front Cover: Above: Euryomyrtus APST members on the Ramosissima ‘long’ walk in Narawn- :White Dazzler: tapu National Park (See article page 10) ready for the minute of silence for the 100th anniversary of WW1 Armistice Left: Euryomyrtus PRINTER: THE XEROX Ramosissima SHOP, © D. Burns 118 BATHURST STREET in close-up HOBART TASMANIA Eucryphia December 2018 EUCRYPHIA Contents ISSN 1324-3888 Published quarterly in Membership subs. & renewals 2 March, June, September and December by Australian Plants Society Tasmania Inc Membership 3 ABN 64 482 394 473 President’s Plot 4 Patron: Her Excellency, Professor the Honourable Kate Warner, AC, Governor of Tasmania Members’ Get-together Report 5 Society postal address: APST Strategic Plan Update 6 PO Box 3035, Ulverstone MDC Ulverstone Tas 7315 Study Group Highlights 7 Editor: Mary Slattery [email protected] Calendar for 2018/2019 8 Contributions and letters to the editor Publications Report 9 are welcome. If possible they should be forwarded by email to the editor at A Not-so Recent Name Change 10 [email protected] or typed using one side of the paper only. If Annual General Meeting 2019 Agenda 11 handwritten, please print botanical names and the names of people. 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In January, we hosted a very successful biennial Australian Native Plants Society (Australia) conference in Hobart, with a flow-on of the themes being used within the Groups. Some of these themes include visits to saltmarshes and speakers on seed collecting and seedbanks. Membership numbers have remained constant and activities well attended. Another great annual get-together was hosted by the North West Group and held on the weekend of November 9-11. We experienced wonderful weather and beautiful garden flowers and plants on the Saturday. Be sure to read the report to get all the details. The Rosny Hill Development has been withdrawn and gone back to the drawing board, our support was part of this rational result. We have had another beautiful calendar of Tasmanian native plants produced by Amanda Walker for 2019. The focus for this calendar is the Winifred Curtis Reserve on Tasmania’s East coast at Scamander. More work has been done on planning for APST’s future. It is exciting to see that Council has become involved in the process, they are after all, the approvers of anything the Strategic Planning Group (SPG) send to them. It is their role to accept, approve and advance the ideas that the think tank, which is the SPG, asks them to tackle. This relationship is now working in a positive feedback loop. There is an invitation to you in this issue (see page 27) to visit and become informed about the development at Hobart’s Macquarie Point. From items in the newsletters I can see that this has been a great year for spring flowers. In my garden at the moment the fascination is with Stylidium graminifolium, the intriguing Narrowleaf Triggerplant. I grow them in pots as they don’t last too long in the garden but thrive in pots. It also means that I can move them around and enjoy them in different places. If you only had space or time for one potted plant, this is the one I would recommend. It is colourful, clever, increases flower spikes year on year and a great talking point for adults and children. From your Council and myself I wish you and the people who are special to you, a happy and peaceful holiday break and we will be back in the New Year with more exciting activities and adventures. Stylidium graminifolium, Eucryphia December 2018 5 Members’ Get-together November, Camp Banksia, Port Sorell Joy MacIntosh, NW group President The weather couldn’t have been better for the APST Members’ Get-together weekend at Camp Banksia in Port Sorell. Friday afternoon saw members check in from Northern and Hobart groups as well as several from the North West group, many having visited Dick Burns’ garden at Penguin on the way.