GOVERNANCE § We have been lucky to have such an energetic and talented bunch of people on the Management Committee with some special people in the background. We have Directors in charge of various areas and Management Committee members as invaluable support. The entertaining and informative ABN 20 607 589 873 DELECTABLE PLANT TREASURE: newsletter is edited by Dr Jeannie Sim. Connect – Promote - Protect Waterlily, ponds near Administration Building, Bettina Palmer needs no introduction at Mt Coot-tha Botanic Garden (J Sim 7 June 2016). as event coordinator extraordinaire. As longstanding BBG Guides, Bettina CONTENTS: and Fay O'Sullivan are important links Lilygram to all things horticultural in the Governance ............................1 gardens. We welcome our new Auditor New Members! .......................1 Bill East to the Treasury team of John Newsletter New Sources! .........................2 Taylor and Mario Rey Conde. Paul Issue 3, June 2016 Bump the Funny Bone !! .......2 Plant has been having fun as the media INSTAGRAM News ...............2 and promotions team member. Liz Let's be friends… WEBSITE news .....................2 Smith has done wonders organising Tuesday Talks and has more CONTACTING f BBGSA FACEBOOK news..................2 educational ideas. Postcards ................................3 Arno King and Julie Lumsdale have Our Website PLANTspeak ..........................4 been moving heaven and earth (pun www.fbbgsa.org.au History EXPOSÉ ...................5 intended) to get our Growing Friends (Membership details here) Bump the Funny Bone 2 ........6 together. Annette Irish has advised on Email FoSA news .............................7 Governance matters. The meetings also have the savvy of Curator Dale [email protected] OBBG news + AAFBG ...........8 Arvidsson who is always willing to MAIL ADDRESS MCBG Events Galore! ...........9 lend a hand at our functions. Even so it f BBGSA, PO Box 39, Volunteer Guides news ..........9 would be great to see new faces on the Sherwood, Qld 4075. Calyx (RBGSyd) ................... 10 Management Committee (join us at any Autumn Tuesday Talks ....... 10 time) or put your name forward for Management Committee election at the AGM as a Director on Mary Jo Katter, Arno King, Horticulture at EKKA ......... 11 Spring Tuesday Talks .......... 11 the new Board. We can promise you Jeannie Sim, John Taylor, Paul can be involved in a very diverse Plant, Annette Irish, Liz Smith, Future Activities & AGM .... 12 program of events for all interests. Julie Lumsdale, Bettina Palmer, CALENDAR ......................... 13 Fay O'Sullivan, Claire Membership form................. 14 We thank you for your support and Christiansen and look forward to seeing you at future Dale Arvidsson (ex officio as events and especially at the AGM Curator of both BBGs) EDITORIAL th Tuesday 6 September (see page 12 for Newsletter Editor: more). Jeannie Sim Welcome to our third issue! — Mary Jo Katter. Lilygram lives! ❤❤❤ New Members! Membership Counter Our regular newsletter will be sent out Each quarter, we'll greet and welcome all 23 June 2016: 102 by email to all connected members and the new folks to join our gang! available to download as a PDF from March: our website. We'll print out a colour Cr. Steven Toomey & Paul Harrop. copy for the MCBG BCC library to April: James Tomlin. share around as well. The intention is May: Maryanne Roberts, Jillian Coomb, to publish quarterly issues: March, Murray McDonald, Barbara Steiner, Vikki June, September, and December 2016, Henry, Kim Storie, Angela Gunningham, Mary Peden, Dinah Snowden, Patricia and beyond. Mitchell, Rosemary O'Kearney, Michael Suggestions for stories or actual Rabbidge, Lyn Williams & Antoinette Shaeffe. articles are welcome! June: Georgia Cummings, John Daly, Sue Brisbane Lily planted at October 2015 Launch. Bythe-Smith and Warwick Williams. These lovely blooms photographed in November [MJK] — Jeannie Sim Lilygram Newsletter, Volume 1, Issue 3, June 2016 page 1 New SOURCES! INSTAGRAM news FACEBOOK news § § § This new column will highlight any This social media outlet has been BIG NEWS! We had a meltdown new blogs or books or magazines that established and is thriving: 329 access problem with the old site, so are interesting (or even exciting!). followers and growing! Here's our tag: Paul Plant has set up anew for us. @brisbanebotanicgardensfriends https://www.facebook.com/brisbanebot anicgardens/ Postcards from Adelaide BG! "Out of the Past presents 300 pocket-sized memories of the much-loved Adelaide Botanic And Friends of Sherwood Arboretum Garden. Hand-coloured views of a well-known have established their own Facebook place – many views have now matured, been altered or have become lost. These beautiful page! Congratulations FOSA! postcards are from the Edwardian Era, a time of leisure, affluence and modernity. This period was also the time of the picture postcard - a new, speedy and efficient mode of communication. The images on the front of these postcards tell one story while the handwritten messages on the back provide a glimpse into everyday life from 100 years ago. During the course of 1901-1914 a postcard craze saw billions of postcards sent https://www.facebook.com/FriendsofS through the post offices of the globe." herwoodArboretum/ http://www.booktopia.com.au/out-of-the-past- tony-kanellos/prod9781921876011.html Kanellos, Tony (editor) 2015. PURPOSES Out of the Past: views of the FBBGSA's three media outlets have Adelaide Botanic Garden Jean's favourite image so far! The 1878 first bandstand these common intentions: in the Rainforest Garden, OBBG. I'm itching to clean – a series of Edwardian Era those leaves off the roof! (1) to promote our three botanical postcards. Adelaide: Wakefield treasures by frequent postings of Press. photographs with commentary WEBSITE news (2) to connect with like-minded § § organisations and individuals and celebrate all things botanical. www.fbbgsa.org.au (3) to spread the word about Bump the Funny upcoming events and activities! Bone !! Contributors Currently, Paul Plant, Mary Jo Katter Phallaceae and Jeannie Sim are doing most of the (stinkhorn fungi)! posting! More contributions are avidly sought! Please send in any "jpgs" to the The smell is a cross between [email protected] address! sewerage and rotting meat! And some are 'surprisingly' shaped ! SUGGESTED TOPICS Please drop in regularly to see what's newsy stories new! Our important membership what's flowering / fruiting application function is well and truly botanical oddities / absurdities functional! We use PayPal to safely wildlife (non-human sorts)! gather funds and information. Did you heart-stopping works of nature know anyone can use PayPal as a jaw-dropping scenery! And so on. You have been warned! guest? So don't worry about being Seriously, dogs and cats may ingest obligated to join them. Future pages § these toxic nasties! are planned for our website and if you https://www.health.qld.gov.au/poisonsinformationce have any ideas or requests please let us ntre/plants_fungi/stinkhornfungi.asp know at the usual address: [email protected] Lilygram Newsletter, Volume 1, Issue 3, June 2016 page 2 POSTCARDS Voices from the past Postcard (1) Fern Island was located within the old lagoon dug out in 1828 under Charles Fraser's direction. The island was created later in the late 1850s by the first Director Walter Hill. This postcard shows the well-established giant bamboos that surrounded the lagoon and the mixture of treeferns, ground ferns, Pandanus, palms, and other plants that covered the fantasy wild island. And you can just see the boy posed fishing and another lad leaning on one of the two bridges that linked the island bank to shore. The bamboo leaf litter must have been a nightmare to keep out of the waters! I wonder is there some significance to the diagonal placement of that penny stamp? Postcard (2) Philip MacMahon preferred the term 'Fern House' for the bush-house he created in Old Brisbane Botanic Gardens in the 1890s. And I always fantasise that the P.M.M. signature is actually his! Notice the fancy fascia board on the gable end! He used twigs and branches to roof his fernery Postcard (1) Fern Island. Paul Hayes Postcard Collection. Coloured view inside MacMahon's Postcard (2) posted 1904. JSim Postcard Collection. Fern House is about A4 size and not a postcard. JSim Collection 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)! Lilygram Newsletter, Volume 1, Issue 3, June 2016 page 3 Match stick Cactus Pink Trumpet Tree PLANTspeak (Aechmea gamosepala) (Handroanthus impetignosa syn. Tabebuia palmeri, Tecoma ipe) Flowering in Gardens Winter 2016 By Arno King It seems that the public most enjoy the colour and perfumes of flowering plants when visiting our botanic Bromeliads have become very popular gardens, and while winter may be a in recent years, as there are few other quiet time in the southern parts of groups of plants which are as hardy or Australia, it is 'business as usual' in have such low maintenance needs and subtropical Brisbane, where a wide look fresh and lush all year round. The diversity of plants are in full flower. Match Stick bromeliad has been a Many popular plants flower year round popular garden plant since the 1960s when few people were familiar with and are seldom without a flower or two. However it is the seasonal flowers the family. I love the flower colour that always attract most attention and combination of pink bracts and blue Once rare, the Pink Trumpet Tree has become iconic in people’s minds. flowers. Although the individual become very popular in recent years flowers and flower spikes are small, on and can be seen in our streets and Winter’s Joy, Strawberry mass the plants are striking and very gardens throughout the city. It makes a Snowball Tree showy in the garden for many months.