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Friday 12th. February 2010

  Speaker: Doug Rickard
  Topic: ‘Wildflowers of the West’
  Background:

Doug Rickard and Margaret Bradhurst’s tour of south west WA started with the WA Orchid Spectacular and the Kings Park Festival at the end of September 2008 in Perth. This talk will be a photographic tour of the region. Margaret has an interest in terrestrial orchids and there are many good images of orchids in this talk.

In the south west corner of WA, there are four main vegetation zones, each with their own distinctive mix of species

• Banksia-Eucalypt woodland on the eastern coast. Look out for Banksia grandis with purple new growth.
• Jarrah-Marri forest made up of Eucalyptus marginata and Corymbia calophylla.
• Karri-Tingle forest on the southern coast made up of Eucalyptus diversicolor and E. jacksonii (red tingle) which has large swellings called burls popular with wood turners.
• Wandoo woodland inland in the WA wheatbelt has islands of native bush such as Dryandra woodland.

Eucalyptus wandoo regenerates after fire by growing new bark from its lignotuber up the outside of its burnt out trunk. It also has a symbiotic relationship with termites.

 

50th Anniversary of the North Shore Group

This year the group is celebrating its 50th Anniverary.

Celebrations will include a Dinner on the 13th March and a group shirt.

Dinner Form

Polo Shirt Order form

 

Valette Williams Scholarship in Botany

The Valette Williams Scholarship in Botany is offered by the North Shore Group, for Honours, Masters or PhD students in botany.

Download 2010 aplication form

The 2009 recipient of the Valette Williams Scholarship is Liza Xian, a BSc Honours student at the University of Western Sydney.
 

 

 

 

Who are we?

We are a group of people with various interests
in Australian Native Plants.

Our interests include:

  • Plant identification including courses
  • Plant propagation
  • Growing plants
  • Plant ecology
  • Rare and threatened species
  • Bushwalking
  • Photography
  • Conservation of Australian plants
  • Bush regeneration
  • Garden design

The APS North Shore Group is based in the Northern Suburbs of Sydney, NSW Australia. Our members come from wide area, from Galston in the north west to St Ives in the east and as far south as Concord. However you do not have to live in the area to join.

 

 

 


Members at a plant sale

Our activities include:

  • Monthly meetings with a Guest speaker held on second Friday of the month at the"Willow Park Community Centre" Edgeworth David Ave. Hornsby. Visitors are always welcome
  • Walks and Talks Programme
  • Monthly bushwalks
  • Propagation Group
  • Plant Identification Courses
  • A regular news letter "Blandfordia"
  • Ku-ring-gai Wild Flower Festival

 

 

Last up-dated 25th.January 10

We are affiliated with the NSW Region of Australian Plants Society which is part of the national body the Association of Societies for Growing Australian Plants