Guest Speakers 2025

21 January – Mary Moody – 70 years of gardening in the Blue Mountains.
Come and celebrate our birthday with a special Morning Tea and Cake.
Mary Moody is an Australian author who trained as a journalist at The Australian Women’s Weekly and was a long-time presenter on Gardening Australia. She has written more than forty gardening books and five memoirs – Au Revoir, Last Tango in Toulouse, The Long Hot Summer, Sweet Surrender and The Accidental Tour Guide. She lives in the Blue Mountains and has supported our club many times in the past. 

Guest Speakers 2024

16 January – Frances Scarano and Anne Rickwood – Blue Mountains Wild Plant Rescue Service ... read more

20 February  – Alexandre Feliz,  All about Mushrooms ... read more

19 March – Bryn Hutchinson – Flower Meadows: Why Grow Them & How to Ensure Their Success ... read more

16 April – Rhiannon Phillips, Market Gardening in the Mountains  ... read more

21 May – Robert Trinajtic – Water Features ... read more

18 June – Robin Johnson – Winter Propagation Workshop ... read more

16 July – Lis Bastion  – The Big Fix ... read more

20 August – Rhiannon Phillips – Keeping Poultry ... read more
 
17 September – Sue Carney – Bees in your Garden ... read more
 

15 October – Mat Murray – Mt Tomah Botanic Garden Turkish delights... read more

19 November – Anthea Hinchliffe – Heritage Roses

Anthea and Scott are true locals, living at their Wentworth Falls property for 48 years!  Anthea will be talking about their 15-acre property which has old established deciduous and conifer trees in a parkland setting. There are water features and views of Sydney. Her Heritage rose garden includes 115 roses. She will give a talk on 4 categories of Heritage Roses.

For more information contact Cathy Reid, the Coordinator of Heritage Roses in Australia Blue Mountains and Nepean on 0447 800 171.

Join us afterwards for a ramble through Anthea and Scott’s garden followed by lunch at the Conservation Hut at Wentworth falls.

10 December – Christmas Lunch – Grandview Hotel, Wentworth Falls

Join us at 12 midday for a 2 course lunch $70. Please book and make a payment to Marian Haire at October or November meeting.

Past Years Speakers

2023

17 January – Sharon Baldwin, Author, The Gardeneers, Kids Permaculture 

21 February – Robin Johnson, Propagation and Grafting

21 March – Brenda Lyon – All about Daffodils 

18 April – Robert Trinajiscic from Hedge and Arbour

16 May – Robyn Bible – All about Geraniums and Pelargoniums

20 June – Michael Barnes – Irises

18 July – Matt Stephens – Tree Hollows 

15 August – Bryn Hutchinson – Firdaus Gardens 

19 September – Sue Cunningham – Protecting our Bushland 

17 October – Graham Jurd – In Defence of Ferns

12 December – Christmas Lunch – The Bunker, Leura

2022

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15 February – Liz Benson, Pollination

15 March – Lis Bastian, About Permaculture 

19 April –  Duncan Leys, My garden

17 May – Oliver Kelly, Frog Habitats 

21 June – Neville Burns, Snakes of the Blue Mountains 

19 July – Peter Green, Pyrolysis and Biochar 

16 August – David White and Bridget Moseley, Leura Garden Festival plus Queens Platinum Morning Tea 

20 September – Vicky Austin, Citizen Science

18 October – Robin Johnson, The gardener through history

15 November – Lyndall Crompton,  Saving the Shipley Apple 

13 December – Grandview Hotel Wentworth Falls