17 January 2023 – Sharon Baldwin, Author, The Gardeneers, Kids Permaculture ... read more
Sharon Baldwin is the founder of Loose Parts Press – an independent children’s publishing company. She has written and published 13 books for children focusing on permaculture, gardening and sustainability and is now publishing work by other emerging authors. Sharon also runs a weekly story and craft session for young children at Good Earth Bookshop in Wentworth Falls. She will be speaking about how learning about permaculture influenced her gardening, her work with children and her publishing career.
After the meeting we will visit Joyces at Lawson to see what’s available in raised garden beds and then we will have lunch at the Lawson pub
21 February – Robin Johnson, Propagation and Grafting
Robin is passionate about gardens and has a practical down to earth approach to the methodology of sowing and harvesting. He will provide a practical workshop showing us how to increase our plants through budding as a form of shrub, rose and tree propagation. Budding is mostly done during our summer months, November to late January when plants are in their full growth period with sap rising through the stem of the rootstock.
He will be provide pictorial handouts of this specialised plant propagation method.
Afterwards enjoy a ramble in the Railway Garden followed by lunch with your fellow gardeners at the Alexandra Hotel Leura.
21 March – Brenda Lyons, All about Daffodils ... read more
Brenda is passionate about growing Daffodils at her cold climate farm “Falkirk” at Oberon. Many of us have bulbs growing in our gardens bought from Brenda when she last visited LGC. Brenda has sold Falkirk recently and moved closer to Oberon.
Past Years Speakers
2022
Purple bluebell flower
15 February – Liz Benson, Pollination
15 March – Lis Bastian, About Permaculture
19 April – Duncan Leys
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
