Speakers – 2024
16 January – Frances Scarano and Anne Rickwood – Blue Mountains Wildplant 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 Creating flower meadows is a popular and sometimes affordable way to create a dramatic display of colour in a garden and create habitat for wildlife and beneficial insects. However, if not done well they can also be expensive and time consuming, or fail completely. Drawing on my time as the Senior Horticulturalist in charge of the popular spring meadow at Royal Botanic Garden Sydney and my own experiments and research with flower meadow plantings I will discuss how to plan, grow and manage your own flower meadow for a successful and flourishing outcome. After the talk join us for a ramble at Murray Bailey’s garden and then lunch at RSL Katoomba. 16 April – Manu (Emmanuela Prigioni), Farm it Forward After the talk join us for a ramble at Joan and Kevin Brown’s garden 21 May – Robert Trinajtic – Water Features 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 17 October – Graham Jurd – In Defence of Ferns 12 December – Christmas Lunch – The Bunker, Leura
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 Past Years Speakers
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