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March 2020
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NEXT EVENT 

SATURDAY 21st MARCH 2.00pm
(doors open at 1.30pm)
at The People Place
19 - 21 Kent Street, Busselton



CHERIE KEMP
 
LAND FOR WILDLIFE AND NATURE CONSERVATION COVENANTS
 
Please join us to hear DBCA's Cherie Kemp talk about Land for Wildlife in the past and present, the value of Nature Conservation Covenants, and the difference between the two DBCA programs.
$5 at the door
All welcome

Cherie Kemp, currently working for DBCA as Nature Conservation Covenant/SW Landuse Planning Officer and teaching at South Regional TAFE, has vast experience in horticulture and land management. Cherie started her working life in 1984 as a trainee ranger at Mussel Pool/Whiteman Park, and achieved a Certificate IV in National Park Management.
Whilst operating a local gardening/landscaping business in Busselton, she studied Certificate III in Horticulture.

Other training:

Diploma in Business Studies, Office Admin.

Certificate IV National Park Management.

Certificate III Horticulture.

Certificate II, III and IV Conservation and Land Management.

Associate Degree in Education and Training.

Master of Regional Development and Planning, NRM sector.

Trainer and Assessor.

Career Highlights

  • 1994 – 1997: bought the Dunsborough Banyula Nursery whilst also continuing with landscaping designs where the focus was on locally endemic native flora.
  • Leeuwin Naturaliste Management Park Advisory Committee with CALM, providing advice on management of the Leeuwin Naturaliste Management Park for approximately 10 years.
  • 1997 – 2007: TAFE lecturing position in Horticulture, Land Management and Coastal Land Management.
  • 1997 – 2017: Appointed Land for Wildlife officer (CALM)
  • 1998 – present: Nature Conservation Covenant Officer (CALM)
  • 2018 – present: SW Landuse Planning Officer (DBCA)
  • 2018 – present: South Regional TAFE
Something from the garden ...
If you wish, please bring a cutting/specimen from the garden for a specimen table. Also, something for a mixed vase of flowers if you have anything flowering now - or something with interesting foliage.

AGM 
We are planning to have a short AGM after Cherie's talk, possibly after afternoon tea for those who would like to stay.

Planning for 2020
Your committee has been busy planning events for 2020. Please consider nominating as an office bearer, or a committee member.
Contact Richard: rmc@swisp.net.au
ACTIVITIES COMING UP
APRIL

Bronwen Keighery
Saturday April 4, 2pm
 
Why Wildflowers are

WONDERFUL !
 
Duggan Pavilion, Cowaramup 

Also look at the 2020 planning so far online here:
http://www.wildflowersocietywa.org.au/branches/south-west-capes-branch/

JUNE
Neville Marchant
Sunday 21st June, 2.00pm
Duggan Pavilion, Cowaramup 
 
 
A group photo after Rod Cary's talk on his life in horticulture 15th February. I took the photo after some had left after afternoon tea.
A fascinating talk. We were honoured to have Greg and Bronwen Keighery who were en route to Augusta. Bronwen and Rod were in some of the same classes at UWA  - 1969 ...
IN THE BUSH
Photography by John Hill - flowering recently
Allocasuarina humilis♀, Dwarf Sheoak, Gracetown (top left), and Billardiera laxiflora, Gracetown (top right)
Jacksonia horrida, Gnarabup Ridge (bottom left), and Cassytha racemosa, Dodder Laurel, Cowaramup (bottom right)
Banksia attenuata, Candle Banksia, Gracetown, (top left), and Corymbia calophylla, Marri, Gracetown (top right)
Leucopogon elatior, Gracetown (bottom left), Calothamnus sanguineus, Silky-leaved Bloodflower, Gracetown (bottom right)
 FLOWERING NOW
The Marri (Corymbia calophylla) flowering this 2019-20 season has been much better than the poor showing last year, but not as good as 2017-18. The Corymbia ficifolia flowerings this year I think have been spectacular, as have been the pink flowering Marri.
Although the Marri is somewhat too large for most gardens, the Corymbia ficifolia is now marketed as a grafted cultivar, and some are quite small (1-2m). 
Seedlings of the true species can grow into a large tree, which is a little botanical mystery, as in its home habitat just outside our branch region near Walpole, it is sometimes a shrubby species.
Banksia littoralis
Armstrong Reserve, Dunsborough
8th March 2020
Photos: Richard Clark

Banksia littoralis on FloraBase
 
Top: Melaleuca lanceolata, planted. Geographe Bay Road, Quindalup. This Melaleuca always tricks me as I never seem to notice buds - all of a sudden, there is a mass flowering. The detail shows the bursting buds.
Bottom left: This is 'last gasp' flowering/late season flowering.
Kunzea ciliata, Gracetown  19th February, 2020 The last of the flowering, but a busy time of setting seed.
Bottom right: Kunzea ciliata, Smiths Beach, Yallingup. 9th February 2020

If you have room, Melaleuca lanceolata (Rottnest Teatree) is a wonderful garden species. It is strange that it has a Rottnest Island name as it grows in other states. It can grow up to 8m high, but on the Cape to Cape in the windy places, it is often quite prostrate. On FloraBase ...

Kunzea ciliata is also worth growing in the garden. It too will grow as a prostrate shrub in harsh coastal conditions. (I am trying to grow a small edition - please contact me if you would like to trial it).
It is usually a spreading shrub to 2m+,  but away from the coast, it is sometimes higher.
It is endemic to the Capes region ... the herbarium specimens have been collected from Cape Naturaliste to about Margaret River, but do not extend to Augusta, so it is nearly a candidate for a floral emblem for our branch, but not quite. Can someone think of a a plant species that could be cultivated which grows endemically in our branch territory?
The flower colour is normally pink.

Richard Clark
 
A wonderful mix of species grow right to the edge of Melaleuca Beach at Gracetown. The main Melaleuca is Melaleuca lanceolata. The species in the foreground of the top photo is Nitraria billardierei (Nitre Bush) which grows across southern Australia, up the Western Australian coast to the Cape Range Peninsula (and apparently on every island), and inland in WA, SA, the NT, Victoria, NSW, and Queensland.

Nitre Bush (sometimes called Wild Grapes/ Sea Grapes - though that common name also belongs to an edible seaweed) has a delicious fruit - salty and sweet, much liked by emus.

The mix of species includes Enchylaena tomentosa, Threlkeldia diffusa, Tetragonia decumbens (South African), Dodonaea aptera, Atriplex isatidea, Scaevola nitida, ...

Richard Clark

 
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.
Friends groups, ...
We have many groups in our branch area looking after reserves, and volunteering in many ways.  If you are looking for volunteering opportunities for the environment, contact your local government or DBCA office, or contact our committee members. At the moment, many groups are busy with rubbish collection, looking after tree guards, planning for planting mid-year, seed collecting, ... 
I went to a recent Friends of Meelup event, and they concentrated on saying thank you to past and present members - we so often fail to thank our volunteers.
I also went to the launch of a new friends group, the Old Police Reserve in Quindalup with the Toby Inlet Catchment Group, where Ron Glencross gave a short history of the site, and Christine Wilder (Birds Australia) surveyed birds present.
The Toby Inlet Catchment Group doesn't seem to have a website presently, but they are on Facebook.
If any readers have photos or copy (words!!).to share, please send them in to Vikki. Please resize first to a square format.
President Margaret Moir margimoir@gmail.com 0406 292 141
Vice-President Shirley Fisher fishergs@iinet.net.au 0417 179 763
Secretary Richard Clark rmc@swisp.net.au 0427 385 551
Treasurer Pia Parker pia.parker@bigpond.com 0424 478 408
Committee Kay Lehman, Kelly Paterson,
Jennine Frost, Janet Dufall,
Vikki Viela (newsletter)  gravik_oz@hotmail.com
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