Monthly Meetings

Busy Life of Bees

Beverley Jeffrey

Our guest speaker was Bev Jeffrey, who has been a long-standing member of the club.  Bev has been keeping bees in Ashburton for 20 years and 2 months!  Bee Keepers must be registered with the Department of Primary Industry. Bev also joined a bee club for fellowship and helpful...

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Discovering Great Gardens

Margie Edmonds

Our guest speaker was from Botanica World Discoveries, and we watched beautiful photographs of gardens from around the world, including Australia and New Zealand.   We heard how gardens reflect the personalities of their owners and how English gardens differ from French and Italian....

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Birds in our Neighbourhood

David Plant

Our guest speaker was David Plant, who presented his talk on ‘Birds of the Royal Botanic Gardens’.  David has been a garden guide there for over 10 years, and takes part in monthly surveys of girds in the gardens.  He has notice changes in the variety and population of birds...

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AGM and Members Lunch

At the conclusion of the AGM everyone was invited to attend the 30th Birthday Celebration Lunch at The Palace Hotel in Burke Road, Hawthorn.

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Benefits of Gardening for Seniors

Paul De La Motte

Our guest speaker was Paul De La Motte.  Paul teaches horticulture at Holmesglen College of TAFE and he promotes the health and healing benefits of gardening across the board. Paul has a farm at Macclesfield, with sheep, horses and cows and grows vegetables and roses.  He is...

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Biodiversity

Doug

Doug, our guest speaker from Bush Heritage Australia spoke about protecting bio-diversity in Australia.   Bush Heritage is a national non-profit organisation that protects Australia’s unique animals, plants and their habitats.   This is achieved by acquiring and managing land of...

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Permaculture & Vegetable Growing

Fran Penna

Our guest speaker was Fran Penna, whose business ‘Frangipani’ does garden makeovers and has a beautiful website.   Fran also hosts a radio program on 94.1FM on the 2ndMonday of each month, from 5.30-6.00pm, and ‘The Good Earth’ garden show each Saturday morning between 10 and 11am. Fran’s...

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Floristry Training

Evan McKenzie

Our guest speaker was Mr. Evan McKenzie, from Box Hill College of TAFE. Evan had kindly offered to fill in for our original speaker, who was unavailable. Evan’s background was in accounting, but he had owned and operated a successful floristry business for 32 years, and was now teaching senior...

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Dahlias

Dwight King

Our guest speaker was Mr. Dwight King, a charming and knowledgeable gentleman who shared his colourful slides and vast experience growing dahlias with us. Dwight explained the charms of dahlias; they are very colourful and come in a great variety of forms, sizes and colours and some are even...

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