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Maroondah Group Inc
Registration No; A 0013122B
P.O. 33, Ringwood, Victoria, 3134
AIMS**
- To
promote the growing of Australian native
plants in Australian public and private
gardens.
- To
assist in the preservation of Australian
plant species in the wild
- To
help people learn more about Australian
native plants
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See also
Statement of Purpose and Rules
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MEETINGS
- Meetings are held at Manchester Unity Hall, 8
Main Street, Blackburn, Vic, 3130. Melways 47
K10. Third Friday of the month. February
November - 8pm.
- Guest speakers on a range of interesting topics
(see future events)
- News and information (see newsletter)
- Sales of low priced native plants
- Specimen table - discussion of plants grown by
members
- Book sales (discounted)
- Access to newsletters from plant study groups
- Supper and informal 'chat time'
- Door prizes
- Entry donation $2.00
- Typical topics Individual plant groups
e.g. eremophila, fungi, lizards photo
presentations, low water usage plants
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GARDEN
VISITS
- Monthly visits to gardens featuring Australian
native plants (and sometimes including exotics)
- Majority of visits to private gardens,
occasionally public gardens
- Some visits to private gardens participating in
the Open Garden Scheme
- Recent visits have included trips to large and
small private gardens in Maroondah, Manningham
and Whitehorse regions and further afield
- Visits to public gardens such as Royal Botanic
Gardens Cranbourne and Melbourne, Maranoa Gardens
Balwyn.
- Local visits are usually scheduled for afternoons
- 2 pm to 4 pm on the Sunday after the Friday
evening meeting
- Gardens further afield may be an all day outing -
perhaps a bus trip
- Afternoon tea and friendly social interactions
- All welcome - a relaxing way to increase your
knowledge of Australian native plants
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OTHER
ACTIVITIES
- Workshops for new members - e.g. plant
identification and propagation
- Occasional training courses evenings
5 sessions
- Christmas break-up get together
- Bush walks and meanders
- Weekend trips
- Participation in community events such as
Whitehorse Spring Festival,
- Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show
(MIFGS).
- BBQs
- Breakfasts
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FUTURE MAROONDAH EVENTS
Meetings
Meetings
are held at Manchester Unity Hall,
8 Main Street, Blackburn, 3130, Melways 47K10
at 8pm on the third Friday of the month from February to
November.
Casual
visitors always welcome
2009
Meetings
- February
- March
- April
- May
- June
- July 17 Grand Specimen Table
- August 21 Dan Murphy - Acacias
- September 18 Trevor Edwards
Australian and South African Plants
- October 16 AGM & Rodger Elliot
Writing the Encyclopedia
- November 20 Trevor Blake - Sterculiaceae
Garden Visits
2009
- February
- March
- April
- May
- June
- July 19 Mont Albert garden
- August 23 Bulleen garden
- September 20 Croydon garden
- October 18 Hampton garden.
- November 22 Christmas break-up
Garden in Cranbourne
Upcoming
Events 2009
Quarterly
Weekends - APS (Vic)
- September 26 - October 2, ASGAP Conference
Geelong
Australian Plants in the 21st
Century
Contact Convenor: Paul Kennedy, PO Box 220
Strathmerton Vic 3641 or email apsvic@hotkey.net.au
September 21-25
Pre Conference tours.
Tour A. Melbourne and South Gippsland.
Tour B. Grampians and Little Desert.
October 3-7 Post Conference Tours
Tour C. Otways, Shipwreck coast and Coleraine
Tour D. Goldfields and Murray River
- November 28-29 Quarterly Meeting and AGM.
APS Ballarat Group.
Other
Upcoming Events and Plant Sales
- August 15. Maranoa Gardens. Balwyn.
Open Day and Plant Sale
- August 16. Friends of RBG Cranbourne lectures
Global Warming - Insect Watching.
- September 4-6. SGAP Warrnambool.
Flower Show and Plant Sale
- September 5-6. Wilson Park Plant Sale.
Wilson Botanic Park, Berwick
- September 12-13. APS Bairnsdale
.Australian Plant Spectacular, Flower Show, Art
works, Sales
- October 3-4. APS Grampians. Pomonal Native Flower
Show.
- October 17-18. APS South Gippsland
Native Flower Show and Plant Sale, Leongatha
- October 17-18. APS Ballarat "Beaut Ballarat
Bloomers"
- October 17-18. APS Foothills. Stringybark
Festival, Rowville.
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NEWSLETTER
- Published and posted out monthly to APS Maroondah
members.
- Information on:
- Proposed APS Maroondah Group Meetings
- Planned garden visits
- Reports on garden visits
- Photographs of plants and people
- Other upcoming events
- Details re speakers for future meetings
- Articles on Australian plants
- General news
- Summary of information re specimen plants from
previous meeting
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AUSTRALIAN PLANTS SOCIETY
(SGAP Vic) INC
VISIT THE APS VIC. WEB
SITE
- The Australian Society for Growing Australian
Plants (ASGAP) is the Federal body with which
State bodies are affiliated
- The Australian Plants Society (SGAP Vic.) is our
State body and was previously known as the
Society for Growing Australian Plants Victoria
- APS Maroondah Group Inc. (Reg No: A0013122B) is a
District Group of the State body, APS Victoria.
- Australian Plants Society Victoria publications
include:
- Growing Australian - Quarterly APS
Victoria journal, 6 free packets of seed per
quarter, Study Groups, book list, mail order
books
- Australian Plants - Optional national
quarterly colour magazine
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COMMUNITY
NURSERIES
Community Nurseries selling Indigenous Plants
Maroondah Area
- Bungalook Nursery, 63 Fulton Road, Blackburn
South.
(Wurundjeri Walk) Melway 61 G4/H4 Friday
9.30 12.30.
4th Sunday of month 10.00 1.00
- Candlebark Community Nursery,
Corner Hull Road & Taylor Road, Mooroolbark.
Tel: 9727 0594
- CRISP - City of Ringwood Indigenous Species Plant
Nursery,
17 Greenwood Avenue, Ringwood, Melway 49 H10.
Phone: 9879 3911, email: crisp@melpc.org.au
Wednesday and Friday 9:30 - 12:30. 1st & 3rd
Saturday of month 10:00 - 1:00.
- Edendale Farm Indigenous Nursery, Gastons Road,
Eltham.
off Wattletree Road. Melway 22 A1. 9:30 - 4:30.
- FOWSP - Friends of Warrandyte State Park Nursery
Pound Bend Road, Warrandyte.
Melway 23 C10 (near Rangers Office).
Thursday 9.30 12.30. First Sunday of
month 2.00 4.00
- Greenlink Box Hill, 41 Wimmera Street, Box Hill
North.
Melway 47 F6. - Tuesday 9:00 - 12:30.
- Melbourne Wildlife Sanctuary (MWS) Plant Nursery
formerly Keelbundora Latrobe
University, Bundoora Campus
enter from Ring Road Tues., Thurs., Friday,
Sunday. 10.00 3.00
Melway 19 H5
- Knox Environment Society Community Nursery,
Dorset Road, Ferntree Gully. Tel: Mick Van De
Vreede - 9763 7017
- VINC. Victorian Indigenous Nurseries Cooperative
Yarra Bend Road Fairfield. Melway 2D F4
Monday to Friday 9.00 4.00, -
Saturday/Sunday 12.00 4.00.
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USEFUL
LINKS.
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TO JOIN THE MAROONDAH GROUP
AND APS Vic AND OR RENEW MEMBERSHIP
Print this form
and send to the address shown. - Any enquiries re
membership to Jan Nicholls (03) 9893 4422
CONTACT FOR APS MAROONDAH
GROUP
Phone
our President, Graeme Nicholls, on (03) 9893 4422
Phone
our Secretary, Brenda Moore, on (03) 9876 1267
Write
to us at P.O. Box 33, Ringwood, 3134
or
e-mail enquiries APS
Maroondah Group Inc
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