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WINTER FLOWERING
Photos: Richard Clark
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Left: Hovea chorizemifolia
Right: Acacia nervosa
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Upper left: Hibbertia cuneiformis (Toby Inlet, 11th July 2020)
Upper right: Hakea lissocarpha (Meelup, 9th July 2020)
Bottom left: Hakea trifurcata (Meelup, 9th July 2020)
Bottom right: Hakea varia (Ambergate, 21st July 2020)
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Left: Hybanthus floribundus (Meelup, 9th June 2020)
Right: Chorizema cordatum (near Marri Reserve, Dunsborough, 9th July, 2020)
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Left: Grevillea brachystylis subsp. brachystylis (Ambergate Reserve, 21st July 2020)
Right: Hovea elliptica (Marri Reserve, Dunsborough, 28th July 2020)
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Conospermum sp. Busselton (informal name) The common name is Blue Brother.
Maybe we should call it Blue Carpet ...
Ambergate, 22nd June 2020
This species is now regarded as rare and endangered. Under licence, I am propagating this species for a Water Corporation project.
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The WANPIC PROJECT was launched this year in the May edition of the Wildflower Society of Western Australia newsletter (you have to be a WSWA member to receive this), and in our South West Capes May e-newsletter.
It is an attempt to gather as much information as we can about the Western Australian plant species being cultivated in Western Australian gardens, in revegetation/restoration/rehabilitation plantings, and in amenity plantings including Main Roads, landscaping, parks, and botanical gardens.
We are asking gardeners to list the Western Australian species growing in their gardens. If you would like to participate, please send a short email to me with the subject WANPIC, and I will email back to you some information on how to go about listing your garden plants.
The project is going quite well, with the lists being added to a database. I am about to send out a WANPIC newsletter to let participants know the current results.
Richard Clark
rmc@swisp.net.au
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Time for Planting
It is a great time to be planting. I am starting a new garden this year having not planted much since I worked on the Hazel Cole Dunsborough garden with its 200 odd Western Australian species. Tragically, Hazel's son Peter Cole passed away recently from a brain tumour, so later this year, I will be losing the garden as the house will be sold. Over the years, I have invited gardeners to take cutting material. I have been trying to make sure most of the species are in friends' gardens so that we can keep the collection going.
In my new garden - again in someone else's garden - I have been planting a large number of species with plants bought from the Geographe Community Landcare Nursery (Busselton), The Tube Nursery (Cowaramup), Australian Native Nursery (Oakford), and some transplants from the Hazel Cole garden. Richard Clark
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Time for planting
With the soil ready to go, it's time to plant! We have listed local nurseries in the past, but here is a short list.
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Tetragonia tetragonioides Warrigal Greens / New Zealand Spinach.
Clark garden, Quindalup
This is a good spinach (before flowering), and a useful groundcover plant in the garden. It is drought tolerant.
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Bits and Pieces
Membership
Info on the Wildflower Society website here. You can join online, or phone the office Tuesdays and Thursdays 10.00am to 2.30pm (08) 9383 7979
Richard has a fairly up-to-date membership list, but he would appreciate new members letting him know that they have joined. rmc@swisp.net.au
Other groups
We have other groups in our region concerned with the environment, most of which have been revegetating many sites across our region since the beginning of winter.
- Dunsborough Coast and Land Care planted 910 seedlings at Djiljit Mia (Dunsborough), and will have a spring planting at Dugulup Brook, Dunsborough - follow them on Facebook if you'd like to help and check out their website here.
- Nature Conservation were busy planting in Margaret River, Melaleuca Beach, Huzzas and South Point carpark in Cowaramup Bay. Check out their website here.
- Geocatch planted 1000 seedlings at the Dolphin Road Boat Ramp. Website here.
- Toby Inlet Catchment Group planted a total of 2200 plants over three sites - Quindalup foreshore, Old Police Reserve and Wilson Ave Quindalup. Website here.
- Cape to Cape Bird Group - contact Christine Wilder: cwilderone@yahoo.com.au
- June newsletter can be read here.
- Sunday 16 August at 9am: the Cape to Cape Bird Group, along with the Friends of the Old Police Reserve, will be meeting to conduct a bird and Western Ringtail Possum survey. Join them if you're interested in seeing the revegetation works conducted, along with the birds and possums - see newsletter for details.
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