Monthly Meetings

Preparing Your Garden for Christmas & New Hydrangea Varieties

Peter Pitman

Peter has enjoyed a long association with the nursery industry in Silvan, the Greenery and Pinewood nurseries. Peter showed some unusual new release hydrangeas with magenta flowers and toning deep leaf colouring.  He recommended a morning sun location, heavy prune in winter and feeding...

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Roses

Diana Sargeant - Silkies Rose Farm

Unfortunately, Diana was unable to attend our meeting owing to the floods. Will reschedule her talk again next year.  

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Gardens en route to Canberra

Suzanne Hume

Club member, Suzanne Hume spoke about the various gardens she visited en route to Canberra in January 2022. A slideshow of all the places she visited accompanied her presentation. At Albury, Yindymarra Sculpture Gardens featured contemporary aboriginal sculptures among mature gum trees and...

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CMGC 43rd Annual General Meeting

CMGC Annual General Meeting CMGC  43rd AGM will be held on the 11th August 2022 commencing at 10am at Lynden Hall, Camberwell Petanque Club.     Please advise if you are able to be part of the Committee to keep our Club continuing to provide the fabulous...

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Growing from Seedlings and Companion Planting

Anne - Marie from Oasis Seedlings

Anne-Marie Sheean from Oasis Seedlings gave many practical insights along with best practice tips for great results with flower and vegetable growing. She compared the different types of seedling punnets available, advised on choosing pots for herbs and seedlings and analysed a range of potting...

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Flower Arranging

Felicity Sigmont

Club member Felicity who has maintained a lifelong love of flower arranging and has received many awards for floral creations over the years. Felicity shared some of her tips and demonstrated artful vase arrangements, posies and simple flower bowl ideas. Much admired was the autumn maple foliage...

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Dahlias

Kirsten Moore

Guest speaker Kirsten Moore of Mt Joy Cottage outlined her many practical tips on growing dahlias from their tubers. She explained that dahlias have relatively simple needs – water, sun, food and care in staking. Her images illustrated the many varieties of these beautiful flowers as well as the...

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African Violets

Annette Kennedy

Annette noted that there are some 19,000 varieties of African violets worldwide and showed us a beautiful array of flowering species in the same family as the African violet. Her top tips for growing success included regular feeding, a light position out of direct sun, re-potting every 12 months...

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Orchids

Stephen and Meryl Early

Guest speakers Stephen and Meryl Early are hobbyist orchid lovers with over 2000 orchids grown under shade cloth. Stephen gave useful practical advice on orchid needs such as potting media, (bark and shell mix), watering needs (emphasizing summer watering), a shady location, and fertilizer (...

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How To Create A Drip Irrigation For Your Pots And Garden

Patrick Jee

Patrick Jee presented an interesting talk on how to create a drip irrigation system for your pots and garden. Patrick explained the principle of a simple flow technique using recycled water bottles and plastic piping to create a drip system which would be suitable for holiday watering as well...

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2022 Program

PROGRAM OF TRIPS AND SPEAKERS FOR 2022: Thursdays 10 Feb - Drip Irigation for your pots & garden orchids (Patrick Jee) 10 Mar - Orchids (Stephen Early) 30 Mar -3 Apr - MELB. INTERNATIONAL FLOWER & GARDEN SHOW 14 Apr - African Violets (Annette Kennedy) 21 Apr - CRUDEN FARM, LANGWARRIN TRIP...

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Meeting Cancelled

MEETING CANCELLED The Committee regrets to inform that our proposed meeting 13 January 2022 will not be going ahead, owing to concerns about the rapidly rising Covid numbers and also wanting to keep our members safe. We look forward to catching up soon.

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