Central West Group Newsletter Volume 14 Number 6 September 2009 2009 Programme The proposed programme at September is: Saturday 12 September Ophir Reserve Visit Ophir Reserve for bushwalk led by Jane. Meet at the main picnic and camping area at 10.00am. As we are bushwalking, wear appropriate clothing prepared for all weather conditions and covered shoes with non-slip soles. Directions From Bathurst: Take the Great Western Highway to Orange, and not far past Bunnings and SuperCheap turn right into Lone Pine Avenue just before Prime Television studios. Meet there at 9.30am for car pooling. Cars can be left in the Prime car park. Continue north along Lone Pine Avenue, dog-leg into Winter Street, and right onto Ophir Road at March Street. Follow signs to Ophir for 29 kms from Prime to the camping area at Summer Hill Creek crossing. There are brown direction signs to Ophir from Orange. From elsewhere east of Orange: Use the Great Western Highway to Orange; don't travel to Ophir via Lewis Ponds due to the poor condition of the road. Car Pooling: We will leave Bathurst McDonalds rear car park at 8.45am to be at Orange Prime Television car park at 9.30am. If you wish to arrange to car pool from Bathurst please phone Marcia 6337 1117. Bring: Lunch, morning tea, hot and cold drinks for the day. Saturday 19 September Tidy-up of Lisle Pearce Garden, Oberon 10.00am Sunday 27 September Opening Lisle Pearce Garden, Oberon 2.00pm Saturday 24 October Mount Canobolas – Guided by Cilla Kinross. Car pool from Bathurst McDonalds at 9.00am and Orange Railway Station at 9.45am Saturday 28 November Christmas lunch at Sue Wakefield and Jim Watt garden, ‘Peckatoe’ Rock Forest President: Marcia Bonham, Ph: 6337 1117, Email: [email protected]Vice President: Fiona Ogilvie, Ph: 6337 3419, Email: [email protected]Secretary: Sue Wakefield, Ph: 6337 4853, Email: [email protected]Treasurer: Cilla Kinross, Ph: 6365 8221, Email: [email protected]Publicity Officer: Dee Stuebe, Ph: 6337 4850, Email: [email protected]Newsletter Editor: Lyn Burgett, Ph: 04 2186 9012, Email: [email protected]State Council Delegate: Lyn Thompson, Ph: 4758 6637, Email: [email protected]Plant Steward: Jane Paul, Ph: 6362 3950, Email: [email protected]Librarian: Terry Rath, Ph: 6336 9091 Email: [email protected]Committee Members: Gillian Baldwin, Ph: 6332 1583, Email: [email protected]Fiona Johnson, Ph: 6368 5965, Email: [email protected]Vivienne Sutherland, Ph: 6331 9928, Email: [email protected]
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Central West Group Newsletter
Volume 14 Number 6 September 2009
2009 Programme
The proposed programme at September is:
Saturday 12 September Ophir Reserve
Visit Ophir Reserve for bushwalk led by Jane. Meet at the
main picnic and camping area at 10.00am. As we are
bushwalking, wear appropriate clothing prepared for all
weather conditions and covered shoes with non-slip soles.
Directions
From Bathurst: Take the Great Western Highway to
Orange, and not far past Bunnings and SuperCheap turn
right into Lone Pine Avenue just before Prime Television
studios. Meet there at 9.30am for car pooling. Cars can
be left in the Prime car park. Continue north along Lone Pine Avenue, dog-leg into Winter
Street, and right onto Ophir Road at March Street. Follow signs to Ophir for 29 kms from Prime to
the camping area at Summer Hill Creek crossing. There are brown direction signs to Ophir from
Orange.
From elsewhere east of Orange: Use the Great Western Highway to Orange; don't travel to
Ophir via Lewis Ponds due to the poor condition of the road.
Car Pooling: We will leave Bathurst McDonalds rear car park at 8.45am to be at Orange
Prime Television car park at 9.30am. If you wish to arrange to car pool from Bathurst
please phone Marcia 6337 1117.
Bring: Lunch, morning tea, hot and cold drinks for the day.
Saturday 19 September Tidy-up of Lisle Pearce Garden, Oberon 10.00am
Sunday 27 September Opening Lisle Pearce Garden, Oberon 2.00pm
Saturday 24 October Mount Canobolas – Guided by Cilla Kinross. Car pool from Bathurst McDonalds at 9.00am and Orange Railway Station at 9.45am
Saturday 28 November Christmas lunch at Sue Wakefield and Jim Watt garden, ‘Peckatoe’ Rock Forest
‘TORMALINE PARK’ Pamela and Ross Montgomery Garden 1134 Cargo Road, Orange
What a lovely day it was 1 August at the Central West Group meeting. So lovely to meet you
all and to share our garden with people who are as passionate about Australian native plants
as we are.
It was great to discover Hakea multilineata flowering for the first time, and to be able to
identify it.
We will hold our Open Garden to benefit the local Can-Assist Group on the weekend of 17 and
18 October 2009. Refreshments will be available.
We recently visited Mt Kaputar National Park, Kwiambal NP and Carnarvon Gorge NP and
found all of them wonderful places to visit even in mid-winter. Mt Kaputar and Carnarvon
Gorge with hot showers available provided good camping facilities. At Kwiambal there were
very clean composting toilets available and great campsites next to the Severn River. Each NP
provided well defined walks of varying grades. Plants found and photographed (left to right
below) were a very tiny Epacris, unknown species, a lovely Correa, similar to reflexa but
cream in colour, Hybiscus heterophylla, Swainsona galegifolia and a Melichrus in full bloom.
Marcia Johnson is beneath a Melaleuca at Tormaline Park.
Pam and Ross Montgomery
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Lisle Pearse Garden Opening
Representatives of Oberon Council will officially open the Lisle Pearse Garden during the Oberon Daffodil Festival of Spring Gardens. The opening will take place at 2.00pm on Sunday 27 September 2009.
Members are asked to help with a final tidy-up of the garden on Saturday 19 September at 10.00am. Please bring weeding tools and wear personal protective equipment to help this last working bee before the opening. Ring Marcia to car pool.
Garden in the Park By Isobel HoeghBy Isobel HoeghBy Isobel HoeghBy Isobel Hoegh----GuldbergGuldbergGuldbergGuldberg
In 1999 the Oberon Council invited the gardeners of Oberon to cooperate in building a garden in
the newly created Dart Street Park. This park is on the Sydney side of the town and encompasses a small creek at the bottom of a hilly slope. Throughout the park are quite beautiful large basalt rocks.
The challenge was taken up by the Central West Group of the Australian Plants Society a national organisation, with a grant from the Lisle Pearse Fund of the NSW Australian Plants Society. Challenge it was. Through vandalism and drought the garden is taking shape.
Lisle Pearse lived in North Sydney and was a long time member, loyal to the aims of the Australian Plant Society. He left money to be used in projects promoting the cause of Australian native plants.
Oberon Council has provided mulch and some upper story plantings of eucalypts and wattles. Most willows have been removed from the creek but two large ones remained until recently. Council prepared to pipe the creek underground but drew a protest from two neighbours and the Lisle Pearse group. A bargain has been struck; the creek stays and the willows go, to be replaced
by native trees.
In our first planting where the school children took part and when the area was relatively new and of interest to the local kids on bikes we put guards around the new plants. The guards were knocked around and plants destroyed. Council provided a tanker for water. The second planting
was just before the drought struck and did not fare much better. We decided that it was useless to plant unless we got water on the site and the drought had ended. Council has now organized a tap on the site.
Sunday 17 April saw members of the Central West Group of the Australian Plants Society adding
60 native shrubs, all tried and tested for Oberon climate, to the garden. No guards were used with the thinking that they seemed to be a challenge in themselves. This posed other problems of protection from frost and recognition of newly planted when being weeded.
The Group has commissioned a sandstone sculptured seat cum table designed and executed by Bathurst sculptor Colin Fenn. With Council assistance this will be in place for the official opening on Sunday 27 September at 2.00pm of the garden as part of the Oberon Spring Garden Festival.
Lisle Pearse Garden, Oberon NSW
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In Flower Now
Hakea multilineata
‘Tormaline Park’
DirectionsDirectionsDirectionsDirections Driving from Bathurst there is a roundabout at the entrance to Oberon. Proceed through the
roundabout, take the first on the left, Scotia Street which becomes Dart Street. Turn left in
front of the Public school into Dudley Street and right again into Tasman Street. The Lisle Pearse Garden is on the right hand side after Parkes Street. Take caution at the entrance that is on the peak of a hill.
Notes on Garden Design Weekend Workshop by Joanne Hambrett will be published
in the next newsletter.
New Members Welcome to new members to the Central West Group:
Tim Malfroy of Rockley
Glenda Nightingale of O’Connell
Evelyn Ward of Billimari
Central West Group Membership Renewals Please send membership renewal forms (found in
the NSW Plant Society Booklet) and payment to:
Cilla Kinross, 870 Ophir Road, Orange NSW 2800
Change of Address If you change address please notify the newsletter
editor so you will keep receiving newsletters.
Newsletter Contributions Please send contributions for the next newsletter
OPEN GARDEN ‘Tormaline Park’‘Tormaline Park’‘Tormaline Park’‘Tormaline Park’
17 and 18 October 200917 and 18 October 200917 and 18 October 200917 and 18 October 2009
To benefit the local Can-Assist Group Refreshments available
1134 Cargo Road, Orange
Directions from central Orange: Travel west up Summer Street, Orange that becomes Cargo
Road. Travel west through Nashdale, down Lidster Hill. Tourmaline Park is second property on the right at the bottom of the hill. The entrance is opposite the Lidster Landcare sign.
GARDEN TOUR TO CHINA - 2010
Renaissance Tours (Sydney) has invited Vice President, Fiona Ogilvie to escort a garden tour to China, departing 27 March and returning 11 April 2010. More information from Fiona Ogilvie 02 6337 3419 www.fionaogilvie.com.au See http://www.renaissancetours.com.au/
