APS Mornington Peninsula is the local District 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.
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 …
Welcome to our second newsletter for the year. Much has happened since March. Later on in this newsletter you can read about our excursion to Tootgarook in May and also the wonderful guest speakers who visited our meetings in April and June. Our next meeting is on Saturday 15th July at 2:30pm at Bentons Square Community …
Welcome to this summer edition of our newsletter. Hope you are having a wonderful time in your garden with family and friends over the festive season. Since the last newsletter Karen and I have spent time walking and travelling around Japan. Whilst there we had the opportunity to visit many beautiful gardens. This means that …
Hello again fellow members and other readers, It's a great time to be out in the garden during spring, well on the sunny days when it's not raining at least! Again I'll start off things in this newsletter with my favourite plant for September. I am keen to feature some of your favourite plants too …
Hi fellow members, Much has happened this year and now that the weather is not that inviting outside it's a good chance for me to prepare this bumper edition newsletter and in turn a chance for you to sit and have a good read about the goings on of our group. Hopefully you've managed to …
Upcoming Events 2017 events will be detailed here in mid January 2017 Previous 2016 Events Tuesday 16th February 7:30pm at Benton Square Community Centre Topic : Westernport Mangrove revegetation Speaker : Ian Stevenson Background information : http://www.seagrass.com.au Saturday 19th March 10:30am at Merricks Nursery Topic : Garden Maintenance workshop Speaker : Richard Anderson …
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