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November 2024
Plants in my Garden – Prostanthera scutellarioides looks stunning in spring, its purple flowers contrasting and eye-catching against the dark green foliage. The flowers last for several weeks.
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October 2024
Visit Fairfield Indigenous Flora Park – The Flora Park was created in response to a residents’ campaign more than 30 years ago. The event that sealed the decision was the discovery by Fairfield Garden Club members of several plants of Acacia pubescens growing on the site.
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September 2024
Growing Paper Daisies – Every year in spring the Australian native Paper Daisies light up the wildflower season with their dazzling colours. Follow our gardening tips to create your own wildflower garden at home.
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August 2024
Visit to the Illawarra Region – A small group of members attended a most enjoyable visit to The Illawarra Grevillea Park Botanic Garden. The park includes a rainforest walk where you can meander along winding paths around a pond filled with frogs and surrounded by ferns, many donated by the Fern Study Group, magnificent trees,…
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July 2024
Some Memories of WA – May is not the time of year to visit WA if you want to see the famous wildflowers. However, the trip was not without some interesting plant life.
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June 2024
My Bunya adventures – Linda Pine collected some Bunya Pine cones from our Hills Council’s Bidjiwong Nursery, and had also been given a couple of dozen nuts from friends, which I then dehydrated and milled into flour. There was enough to make a cake with the flour, which turned out reasonably good.
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May 2024
Bushwalk Pyes Creek Cherrybrook – We saw tall and majestic Angophora costata, towering Turpentines, massive eucalypts, lots of Callicoma serratifolia and Ceratopetalum apetalum (Coachwood), wonderful Xanthorrhoeas and Lomandras, and large areas of ferns.
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April 2024
Narawang Wetland Walk – The Wetlands are a recreation of previous wetlands that were destroyed when the site along Haslam’s Creek was used as a tip for commercial, domestic and industrial waste.
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March 2024
Growing ferns in pots – Ferns around the house give you a sense of peace and tranquillity, and on a hot day you feel a bit cooler when you see them.
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February 2024
A DAY WITH THE PROPAGATORS – Perhaps you haven’t known just what goes on with the people who join together in the service known as propagation. In the Parramatta-Hills Group of APS, the second Wednesday of most months finds a happy group of propagators gathered at the Hills Council nursery at North Rocks, north-west Sydney.
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November 2023
Red River Gums – Their roots reach down deep into the water table (usually > 10 m), drawing water to the surface that no other plants or animals can reach. By maximising their water use, they grow quickly and produce excesses of food in the form of leaves, nectar, pollen, wood, flowers and sap.
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October 2023
Pittosporums – are they really weeds? Many people regard Pittosporums as a nuisance weed. They say they take over and don’t allow other more desirable plants to grow, so they should be eliminated. But are there other considerations? There are two types of Pittosporums growing in this area – Pittosporum revolutum and Pittosporum undulatum. They…
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Our Group’s floral emblem is Eucalyptus parramattensis. One of its common names is the Calgaroo, a name we have taken for our monthly newsletter. It is also called the Parramatta Red Gum.