Newsletter archive (1995-)
Almost all Central West Group newsletters since 1995 have been retained and form an interesting background to the Group’s current life. Please click individual years below for contents:
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1995-96
Brief contents lists exclude regular columns such as annual programs, presidents’ reports, lists of committee members, nurseries, and other announcements. All authors are acknowledged in the introduction to each annual volume.
Bev Wodrow is the current editor (2010-), preceded by Lyn Burgett (2008-09), Isobel and Hans Hoegh-Guldberg (2002-07), Olly Forman (1998-2001), and Andrew Wormald and Craig Heading (1995-97). The archive was set up and is maintained by past editors Isobel and Hans, who welcome comments and suggestions.
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Authors include:: Marcia Bonham (president), Hans Hoegh-Guldberg, Isobel Hoegh-Guldberg, Maree McCarthy, Helen Mulligan, Eric Rolls, Bev Wodrow (editor).
March 2011: Prostanthera Poorinda “Ballerina”. 2011 region get-together, Burrendong August 27-28. Banksia robur (Swamp Banksia). Written in stone (about sculptor Colin Fenn). Visit to Bruce and Helen Mulligan’s garden. The aliens have landed: Bill Yates photo of Clathrus gracilis (cage fungus). Past newsletters now online.
February 2011: Burrendong get-together, August 27-28. Bimble Box – a eucalypt (Eric C Rolls). Burrendong walks. Dragon diaries – Little Isabella. Takeaway fast food for all (Kunzea ambigua).
Authors include: Gillian Baldwin, Marcia Bonham (president), Lyn Burgett, Olly Forman, Hans Hoegh-Guldberg, Isobel Hoegh-Guldberg, Fiona Johnson, Cilla Kinross, Fiona Ogilvie, Terry Rath, Carmel Spark, Dee Stuebe, Alexandra Tuson, Bev Wodrow (editor) and Bill Yates.
December 2010: Annual General Meeting. Lisle Pearse Garden opening, Oberon. Wambool Nature Reserve. Faces and places 2010.
November 2010: Biodiversity Day at Orange Botanical Gardens. Bush walk at Mt Rankin. The AGM.
October 2010: Acacia vestita. A stranger in our midst (Lisle Pearse). Who was Lisle Pearse? Sutherland Shire 2010 regional get-together. 2011 District get-together, Burrendong. Mt Canobolas bush walk. Mt Rankin Reserve.
September 2010: Revisited, Boongala Native Gardens. Native plant gardening in the chill zone. Northern Australia with Fiona Ogilvie. A brief glimpse from Mt David (Alexandra Tuson).
August 2010: Microlaena stipoides, the best native lawn grass. Future slide show of Fiona Ogilvie’s trip to the Kimberleys. Acacia dealbata.
July 2010: Wildlife and your garden (Sue Wakefield). Marcia Bonham’s garden.
June 2010: Wombat Gully – a little piece of heaven. Butterflies and the native garden. Aboriginal artifact.
May 2010: Coffee with Carmel Spark, Wombat Gully. Whose garden? (Dee Stuebe). The lowdown on rooting stimulants (visit to Rath garden, Mt Rankin).
April 2010: Flowering now – Pelargonium rodneyanum. Bathurst Show and Orange Lifestyle & Garden Expo. Planting bee, Lisle Pearse Garden, Oberon. Boongala Native Garden.
March 2010: AGM. Program to April.
Authors include: Marcia Bonham (president), Lyn Burgett (editor), Joanna Hambrett, Isobel Hoegh-Guldberg, Fiona Johnson, Pam & Ross Montgomery, Fiona Ogilvie, Jane Paul, Nicky Stedman, and Dee Stuebe.
October 2009: Lyn Thompson obituary (Fiona Ogilvie). Robertson Waratah Festival (Isobel Hoegh-Guldberg). Birds in the new garden (Fiona Johnson).
September 2009: Tormaline Park, Orange. Lisle Pearse ‘garden in the park’, Oberon.
July 2009: Cats as environmental disasters. Garden design workshop, NSW South Coast. Some garden design fundamentals. Burrendong Arboretum photos (Jane Paul and Nicky Stedman).
June 2009: Propagation day, Rath property, Mt Rankin. Marcia Johnson’s desert trip. The road to Burrendong (Fiona Ogilvie). Covering the ground in style (Tasmania).
May 2009: Lisle Pearse Garden, Oberon. Garden and Outdoor Expo, Orange. Autumn propagation.
March 2009: AGM. Encryphia moorei (pink wood). Recovering from 2006 Canberra bushfires. Belonging (Dee Stuebe). Weed alert, Mexican feather grass. “Recession gardening” – home propagation.
February 2009: AGM announcement.
Authors include: Marcia Bonham, Lyn Burgett (editor), Val Fenn, Fiona Ogilvie, Warren Sheather, Dee Stuebe.
October 2008: Mother’s little helpers – birds in Marcia’s garden. Propagating Ericas or heath family (WA).
August 2008: July meeting at Noonan property, ‘Lirimbanda’, Bathurst-Blayney road. Flavour of the month – Correas.
July 2008: Mick Harvey awarded Order of Australia. Enrolling at Bathurst TAFE. June bonsai workshop. Peg Baker’s garden, Bathurst.
June 2008: May meeting at the Raths, Mt Rankin. The garden at Bathurst Panthers Bowling Club. A New England Garden (Warren Sheather, Armidale).
April 2008: Micro or macro pruning (Warren Sheather, Armidale). Garden design study tour (Val Fenn).
Authors include: Marcia Bonham, Isobel and Hans Hoegh-Guldberg (editors), Richard Ingham, Fiona Ogilvie, Donna and Terry Rath, Doug Rickard, and Dee Stuebe.
November 2007: Propagation meeting, SHIPS nursery, Orange. Looking for the living in the cemetery.
October 2007: Kanangra Walls. Burrendong Arboretum. Pre-ASGAP Conference tour. Global warming. Native plants in Los Angeles. Australian plants as pests in Florida.
July 2007. ASGAP Conference notes. Visit to Mt Tomah Botanical Gardens. Lomandra and sex. Acacias, birds and bees. Correa mannia. Dee Stuebe on The pruning friends.
May 2007: Donna and Terry Rath on drought. ASGAP conference tour program. Visit to Dee’s place in Rock Forest. World’s oldest tree (Wattieza). Midgen berry (Austromyrtus dulcis).
March 2007: Program for 2007 (Dee’s garden March, Burrendong July, ASGAP pre-conference tour September, cemetery visit October, propagation meeting November). On leaving one’s garden for a whole summer. Seeing red – visit to Trinidad. Prince of Wales (Dee Stuebe poem). Weed or non-weed (amaranths).
Authors include: Marcia Bonham (president), Isobel and Hans Hoegh-Guldberg (editors), Cilla Kinross, Fred Langshaw, Terry and Donna Rath, Hannah Semler, Warren Sheather, Dee Stuebe, and Bill Yates.
December 2006: Springtime on Mount Canobolas. Kennedy Park, Mt David (Alexandra and Rod Tuson). Lisle Pearse Garden, Oberon.
October 2006: Wollemi pine story. A bad Phytophthera year in WA. European bumblebees. Waterwise and waterless gardens.
August 2006: Burrendong Spring Festival. Warrumbungles flora. Royal National Park guided wildflower tours. Wattle Day. When is a ‘dirty rat’ not a ‘dirty rat’ (When a smoky mouse)? Our very own bush poet (Bill Yates).
June 2006: Propagation day at Ogilvie Glanmire property near Bathurst. That other pine, Pinus halegensis. Beyond organics by Helen Cushing. Threatened species Kowmung wattle story.
April 2006: Importance of native grasses. Climate change or else? Using long-stems to restore river habitats after poisoning willows (Cilla Kinross). An unwanted visitor, Gnidia squarrosa. A happier story, eventually (about the threatened Kowmung wattle – Acacia cluniesrossiae).
January 2006: 2006 program includes AGM at Orange TAFE (February), planting bee at Lisle Pearse Garden, Oberon (March), Mt Canobolas walk (October), Kennedy Park, Mt David (November). Peckatoe (Sue Wakefield and Jim Watt) and Rock Forest Station. ‘Boscarna’, Orange, visit. Growing Eremophilas. APS seed bank. Bee seen (native bees talk) and Native bees at Yallaroo, near Armidale. The Botanist’s Way (Bell’s Line of Road, Blue Mountains).
Authors include: Marcia Bonham (president), Bill and Kay Cox, Isobel and Hans Hoegh-Guldberg (editors), Cilla Kinross, Fiona Ogilvie, Warren Sheather, Dee Stuebe, Alexandra and Rod Tuson, Sue Wakefield, Bill Yates.
November 2005: ASGAP 2005 tour. High season for weeds. Visit to Perth gardens. ASGAP conference.
September 2005: Pollen trading, to bee or not to bee (Michael Batley). Kennedy Park including rare Bathurst copperwing butterfly (Rod and Alexandra Tuson). Garden in the park (Lisle Pearse Garden, Oberon).
July 2005: Welcome home (Dee Stuebe). Wattle Day/Wattle happen to Acacias? Ferntree Gully expedition.
May 2005: : Council and community cooperation: Lisle Pearse Garden, Oberon. Rob Berry, celebrity florist. Lemon myrtle (Backhousia citriodora). News from Nambucca (former members Bill and Kay Cox). Growing natives in containers.
March 2005: A creeping Crowea. Growing Sturt’s Desert Pea. On the move, Warrigal. Cilla Kinross: windbrakes and wildlife.
January 2005: 2005 program includes AGM Orange TAFE February, Rob Berry April, Native bees July, McGregor native cut flower venture, Duramana, Visits to Rock Forest Station and Peckatoe, Rock forest. Dunn’s Swamp. Sid Cadwell’s property, Rylstone. Has ‘swamp’ become a bad word? (Bill Yates). For the love of gardening (Dee Stuebe).
Authors include: Marcia Bonham (president), Hans Hoegh-Guldberg (editor), Isobel Hoegh-Guldberg (editor), Marion Jarrett, Peter Metcalfe, Annabelle O’Halloran, Donna Rath, Sue Wakefield, and Geoff Windsor,
October 2004: Aim and inspirations for the Rath garden, Mt Rankin. Hakeas. Nelson Mandela gardened too. Conserving local biodiversity, 2.
September 2004: Burrendong Arboretum visit. Gardening on the treeless plan, Bathurst, with plant list by Sue Wakefield. Bush networking. Conserving local biodiversity, 1.
July 2004: The Burrendong Arboretum puts on its best. The Pilbara. Conservation value of travelling stock routes, 2. The Bilby Blooms story, Binnaway. Tree establishment documentation (Sue Wakefield).
May 2004: Christina McRae on native grasses. Conservation value of travelling stock routes, 1. Royal weddings (Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark and Mary Donaldson) and Australian native trees.
March 2004: Dates for 2004: Native grasses March, Mt Annan plant sale April, Geoff and Gwen Clarke, Canberra, on growing native plants, May. Burrendong July. Rath garden, Mt Rankin, September. Dunn’s Swamp, November. Louisa Atkinson, botanist, 1834-72. Christine McRae and native grasses. OAM for Gwen Harden.
Authors include: Jocelyn Bishop, Maria Hitchcock, Hans Hoegh-Guldberg (editor), Isobel Hoegh-Guldberg (editor), Fiona Ogilvie (president), Lyn Thompson, Val Williams and Bill Yates
October 2003: Corridors large and small. Canberra ANPS annual plant sale.
September 2003 (missing back page – can anyone help?): Southwest Australia, Australia’s only biodiversity hotspot. Frost and wind pruning. Native grasses (quotation from STIPA missing back page).
July 2003: Gilgandra Floral Reserve. Australian native gardens and grasses.
May 2003: Environmental matters (Jocelyn Bishop). Saltbush – flavour of the month. Fire-retardant plants. Glenbrook Reserve, Blue Mountains.
March 2003: Program for 2003. Blue Mountains excursion in April. Conservation and the Society (Val Williams). Future directions of the Society (Maria Hitchcock). Editor’s summing up. Bilby Blooms Nursery, Binnaway.
January 2003 (front page missing): Successful survey of Central West members analysed (54% response rate very high for a mail survey. Gardens in drought. Global warming link to drought. Murray-Darling Basin at the centre. Our senior member Bill Yates response to survey.
Authors include: Olly Forman, Hans Hoegh-Guldberg (editor), Isobel Hoegh-Guldberg (editor), Fiona Ogilvie (president), Sue Wakefield, and Heather Wood.
November 2002: Blue Wren Nursery, Wattle Flat. Orange Expo 2002. pH and Fe in soils. Another yellow flower of great beauty (wattle). But don’t you get the sneezes from them? Protein may lead to allergy vaccine. Native daffodil (Calostemna purpureum). New gardening books. Questionnaire attached on member preferences (questionnaire missing but see results in January 2003 issue).
September 2002: Roadside botanising in Queensland. Visiting the Thompson sisters, Bogee between Kandos and Rylstone. Plants in Central Queensland.
July 2002: Mick Harvey’s garden, Orange TAFE. A visit to Mole Station, Tenterfield. Sue on native orchids. Plant table. Walking on the wild side (Fiona Ogilvie).
May 2002: Plant propagation, my way (Sue Wakefield). Flannel flowers at Mt Annan.
April 2002: Floral abundance. Plant in the Lisle Pearse Park, Oberon. Great grevilleas. Central West online.
January 2002: Soils.
Authors include: Ken and Elaine Arnold, Marcia Bonham, Tim Hayes, Isobel Hoegh-Guldberg, Jeff Irons, Joanne McLachlan, Christine McRae, Fiona Ogilvie, Anne Peaston, Elaine and Graeme Reid, Dee Stuebe, Sue Wakefield (president), and Geoff Windsor
November 2001: Don’t let it end (Marcia Bonham on her garden, plus her favourite book list). The ABC Gardener of the Year: Warren and Gloria Sheather, Yallaroo, near Armidale. Proudly propagating Prostanthera.
September 2001: When the woods are cleared: Problem solving with native plants. McRae property, Mudgee. A mystery trip to Batemans Bay.
July 2001: Grass conference.
May 2001: Propagating Patersonia. Bits and pieces from Gumnuts Online.
March 2001: Program for 2001. Australian plants in Maine. Garden at Riverford, Urunga.
January 2001:
Sue Wakefield (president), Geoff Windsor. Australian plants most popular in Britain. Cultivation shocks or fire and ice (Arnold property at Yeoval).
Authors include: Bill Cox, Olly Forman (editor), Kevin and Margaret Duffy, Tim Flannery, Isobel Hoegh-Guldberg, Cheryl McKinnon, Joanna McLachlan, Jane Patterson, Gloria Rogers, Dee Stuebe and Sue Wakefield (president).
November 2000: Directions to Stuebe’s mountain-side retreat (Rock Forest). Extracts from Gumnuts.
September 2000: Gardeners’ bliss: native grasses. Does infertility bring diversity? (extract from Tim Flannery’s The Future Eaters). Native plants for Wellington Gardens.
July 2000: More about the walk at Maings Mara (Blackfellows Hand). Visit to Burrendong Arboretum. Garden Design Study Group.
May 2000: Post Vintage Fair report (Wellington). Blackfellows Hand Dreaming Place (Gloria Rogers, Wiradjuri Elder). Drawing of lyrebird feather found in Blackfellows Hand (Jane Patterson).
January 2000: Carrington Park, Oberon. Porters Retreat: garden of John and Cheryl McKinnon. Getting lost in Oberon (Bill Cox). Australian Plants internet sites. Kunzea ericoides. Bilagal, Titania Park, Oberon.
Authors include: Marcia Bonham, Bill Cox, Ted Daniels, Olly Forman (editor), Isobel Hoegh-Guldberg, Cheryl McKinnon, Joanna McLachlan, Bruce Mulligan, Robyn O’Bryan, Fiona Ogilvie, Grahame Parsons, Betty Rymer, Sue Wakefield (president), and Judy Windsor.
November 1999: WWoofers (“Willing Workers on Organic Farms”). Garden visits Wellington 31.7.99. Things are not always as they appear – a layperson’s view by Bill Cox. Some Oberon doings.
September 1999: Sir Joseph Banks Nature Park report. What’s in flower at Rock Forest? (Sue Wakefield). Threatened species (Armidale Tree Group). “Unscientific report on her favourite plants (Marcia Bonham).
July 1999: Wattle seed bread. Bill Yates on new Tetratheca, Fern Tree Gully near Rylstone. Pork balls Capricornia. Visit to Craig Heading garden, Mudgee.
May 1999: Person profile: Judy Windsor. Mt Annan plant sale. Some thoughts on life, soil, pH, and iron deficiency (Bill Cox). Cold tolerance.
March 1999: Grevillea Study Group seeking information on top 20 plants growing well. Open day at Mt Rankin.
February 1999: President on Canberra visit. Grevillea rosmarinifolia reintroduced in the wild. Street trees. New Tetratheca species. Hakea dactyloides found at Shooters Hill (Oberon). Plant Breeders’ Rights.
Authors include: Jocelyn Bishop, Marcia Bonham, Bill Cox, Margaret Evans, Olly Forman (editor), Craig Heading, Isobel Hoegh-Guldberg, Fiona Ogilvie (president), Dee Stuebe and Geoff Windsor.
October 1998: Wildflower display and promotion in Oberon. Open forum on native plant field day (Dee Stuebe, Bill Cox). Mooching in the Munghorn. Zieria fraseri. Capertee Valley (Genowlan and Mt Airly). Renegade species. Vale: Felicity Holmes.
August 1998: Visit to Newnes and the Glowworm Tunnel (Dee Stuebe, Marcia Bonham). President on future directions for Central West Group – strengths and weaknesses. Next meeting at Munghorn Gap Nature Reserve, Mudgee, 25.7.98. Note on Banksia spinulosa.
June 1998: Geoffrey Windsor on young plants dying in drought conditions. Person profile (Isobel Hoegh-Guldberg). Geoff Windsor volunteers to organise local plant collation list. Craig Heading on trip to the Red Centre.
February 1998: Poliitically (in)correct, racially offensive, plant names (Brian Walters, Native Plants of NSW editor). Program for year includes seminar on grasses (Todd Layt) in March, Newnes Plateau and Caves May, Canberra visit October.
January 1998: Brief issue. President reporting on meeting at Wattle Flat (Geoff and Judy Windsor) on 29.11.97, and announcing AGM on 31.1.98.
Authors include: Bill Cox, Isobel Hoegh-Guldberg, Fiona Ogilvie (president), Dee Stuebe, Lyn Thompson, and Andrew Wormald (editor).
September 1997: Visit to Mt Annan Botanical Garden. Native bee pollinators. Netta Holmes NSW Rural Woman of the Year. Is Lomatia tasmania or King’s Holly world’s eldest plant? Update on Wollemi pine.
July 1997: Visit to Badger Ground Nursery. Rylstone weekend.
May 1997: More on Badger Ground Nursery and Sid Cadwell field day in May. Report on committee meeting 22.3.97 aimed at balanced programming and how to encompass vast distances between members. Horticultural information on grevilleas (Bill Cox, Wellington). Australian Native Flower Growers and Promoters Association proposed conference in Orange.
March 1997: Planned events: Badger Ground Nursery (Mike Pridmore) and Sid Cadwell property, near Rylstone, May. Mt Annan Botanic Garden, July.
January 1997: Field trip to Jocelyn Bishop property, south of Bathurst. Avisford Nature Reserve, Mudgee. The Grampians. Smoke, not heat and ash, the critical agent for germination (research by Dr Kingsley Dixon).
Authors include:: Jocelyn Bishop, Craig Heading (editor), Alan Hodge, Simon W. Leake, Fiona Ogilvie (president), and Andrew Wormald (editor).
September 1996: President on Gilgandra Flora Reserve day. Coming events. Wildflower Spectacular at Rouse Hill. Hakea orthorrhycha. “Foreign” plants (Alan Hodge). Wattle Day. “Trostie frosties”. Website for Central West Group (Craig Heading). Editorial comment on Central West Group progress.
July 1996: Meeting at Gilgandra Flora Reserve planned for July. Burrendong Arboretum September. Other suggested field trips. St Joseph Banks Reserve, Mt Panorama. How to avoid phosphorus toxicity. Name changes for eucalypts. More on “trosty frosties”. Bush food venture in Mudgee.
May 1996: Propagation workshop at Mudgee Native Trees. Film on Wollemi pine a “must-see”. List of frost-hardy native plants (“trosty frosties”).
March 1996: Acacia uncinata. Wollemi pine fact sheet. Phosphorus and iron nutrition in native plants.
December 1995: Minutes of the first meeting, 28.10.95, called by Fiona Ogilvie, Isobel Hoegh-Guldberg, and Lyn Thompson. Fiona Ogilvie on why she took the initiative to form the Central West Group. Coming events.
