APS Mornington Peninsula is a local member group of Australian Plants Society Victoria.
Hello members and other readers, What a disrupted year we have endured so far due to the covid-19 situation. The vast majority of the events, activities and walks our committee had planned have sadly ended up on the cancellation scrapheap. Unfortunately our plant sale also had to be abandoned. We managed one meeting and one excursion before all this happened. You'll be able to read more about these below.
Hello members and other readers, Happy New Year! Hopefully your garden is surviving this very mixed bag of weather that the summer is providing. Since our last newsletter we have finished 2019 off with our end of year lunch and garden wander at our leader, Verena Reich's garden. Now our committee is planning 2020's calendar …
Spring is here. Yes, it is changeable and we still have the odd day that reminds us of Winter but we only have to look in our gardens to see plants bursting into bloom, like our gorgeous Isopogon formosus, to know it is now Spring. Here's a rundown on the events that helped us make …
Hello readers, Welcome to our Winter newsletter. Hope you have finished your Autumn planting and your garden is ready for the winter rain. Here's the news about our meetings and excursions that have taken place in the early part of this year. February 19 - Committee Members' Gardens Several of the committee gave brief reports …
Hello members and other readers, Our committee has been busy organising another interesting and varied program of speakers, workshops and excursions for the upcoming year. To kick the year off they have volunteered to do a show and tell of their personal gardening experiences with Australian Natives on the evening of February 19th. At the …
Better weather is returning and with it lots of plants are in bloom. Well, in our garden plants certainly have been blooming so I hope your garden looks good too. Apologies for the long gap between newsletters. During the winter we were away, caravanning up through South Australia, around the Northern Territory before heading over …
Hello and welcome to our Autumn Newsletter. My featured image is one of several red flowering plants presently in bloom in our garden. Masses of red flowers have the bees really interested in our Hakea 'Burrendong Beauty'. Next up on our 2018 calendar of events is our annual plant sale, a golden opportunity to find …
Hello members and other readers, Even though our garden tends to look its best in Spring it has been able to showcase a few plants in bloom during the Summer. One of our favourites, Banksia occidentalis is in lovely bloom now and our Banksia serrata has given us an ongoing display. We even had an …
Here it is, the final newsletter for 2017. Lots to share since our last newsletter. Thanks to many of our membership group who have supplied me with 'words and photos' to cover for the time when Karen and I were away in Spain. We even saw quite a few Eucalpyts in our travels such as …
