The Australian Plants Society Central Coast Group will meet monthly from March to November in 2022.

Visitors are welcome to attend our meetings.

Meetings are usually held at Phillip House, 21 Old Mount Penang Road, Kariong. 

Friday night meetings are usually held at 7.30 pm in February, March, October & November

Saturday afternoon meetings are usually held at 2.00 pm in April, May, June, July, August & September.

There is a $3 entry cost to the hall to help defray costs.

Next meeting

Saturday 11 June 2022

Time - 1.30 pm for 2.00 pm

Guest Speaker - Colette Livermore

Topic - Palm Grove Ourimbah Creek Landcare's Tradescantia control

At - Phillip House, 21 Old Mount Penang Road, Kariong.

About the presentation

Colette Livermore is the current Chair person of Palm Grove Ourimbah Creek Landcare Group which has been going for 22 years. Volunteers have restored about 60 acres of cleared, degraded land along Ourimbah Creek into a rainforest and wetland area. Three of the original members are still working at the site.

Colette is a retired doctor with an interest in Bird Photography which is how she first came to visit the site. When she retired four years ago Colette joined the Landcare Group.  She will discuss with us the successful CSIRO trial of releasing smut fungus into the site to destroy the Tradescantia fluminensis.

Map of normal meeting place

Native wildflowers you may see blooming during MAY in Central Coast bushlands

Banksia aemula

Lambertia formosa

Astroloma pinifolium

Acacia suaveolens

Correa reflexa

Crowea saligna