Monthly Meetings

Christmas Decorations/Arrangements

Sandra

Our own Sandra gave a demonstration of two arrangements we could ourselves make, either with artificial or fresh flowers for Christmas, a beautiful door garland and a lovely low table setting you can talk over.  Using a wired garland base, with pretty ribbon, fasten large loops with green florist...

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Heritage Trees

Rod Dunstan

In his illustrated presentation, Rod spoke on Heritage Trees that are listed on the National Trusts of Australia Register of Significant Trees. This Register was created to protect and celebrate Australia’s heritage and trees are on this Register due to their rarity, size or cultural historical...

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Dahlia's

Dwight King

Dwight King from the Dahlia Society of Victoria in his illustrated presentation spoke about the 6 different sizes of  blooms ranging from Giant 260mm to Pom Pom less than 50mm and the 16 types (the shape of bloom /petals) some of which are the decorative, cactus, waterlilly, fimbriated...

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Herb Doctor

John Harrison

The guest speaker was John Harrison, who is widely known as the Herb Doctor, accompanied by his colleague David Leviston.  John outlined the history and evolution of herbal medicines, which have always been a part of the apothecary's art. The art, or science, traces back at least 4000...

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Vegetables - Oasis Horticulture

Malcolm Warrington

Oasis Horticulture owns a nursery at Springwood in the Blue Mountains and a wholesale nursery  located at Devon Meadows, near Cranbourne.  They supply Bunnings, Masters and Aldi in most parts of Australia.   Malcolm  has worked for Oasis for 19 years, and was at...

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Liliums

Adrian Van Kempen

Adrian van Kempen addressed the members on his experiences with growing and propagating Liliums.    Liliums are commonly referred to as lilies, although there are many other plants also called lilies which are not true members of the family. The true liliums grow from a bulb, usually with...

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Ungulla Country Garden

Vicky Keane

Vicki Keane and her husband have a small property at Athlone, about ten minutes from Drouin in Gippsland. They lived in Glen Waverley until acquiring the property about 15 years ago. The name Ungulla means "mother earth" and they have found it to be exactly what they were looking for. Their house...

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Succulents for the Future

Attila Kapitany

Attila Kapitany gave a lively and entertaining talk and taught us many things about cacti. He showed photos of the very attractive garden at their house in Boronia and also their show garden in Narre Warren North. He and Michele have travelled overseas many times looking at cacti in their native...

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Wild Flowers of China

Geoff Crowhurst

Geoff is an inveterate traveller taking lots of photos, mainly of plants.  He also donates money to Wells for Cambodia by selling his plants, two types of which he showed today, the long stemmed scented dianthus called "Memories",  and an all white Salvia leucantha. Geoff...

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2015 Program

PROGRAM OF TRIPS AND SPEAKERS FOR 2015: Thursdays: 12 Feb - Wild Flowers of China (Geoff Crowhurst) 12 Mar - Succulents of the Future (Attila Kapitany) 19 Mar - AUTUMN TRIP – Country Dahlias, Winchelsea 09 Apr - Ungulla Country Garden (Vicky Keane) 14 May - Liliums (Adrian Van Kempen) 11 June -...

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