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North Shore District Group

Activities



Guests are welcome at our activities.

Meetings

We hold evening meetings on the 2nd Friday of each month February to November. Meetings will be face-to-face or by Zoom, depending on the current conditions and the location of our speaker.

Next meeting: at Beatrice Taylor Hall 14th February 2025 7.30pm for 8:00pm.

Details to be announced.

Group Outings and Activities

Usually held at a weekend, these outings visit  local gardens, reserves or other places of interest or sometimes there may be work to be done!

Next North Shore Group Activity: Will be held in March 2025.



Walks & Talks

Walks and Talks are open to the public. See their own page, here.

Bushcare, Propagation and the Knoll Garden

Bushcare and Propagation groups meet on alternate Wednesdays. Volunteers also meet regularly to maintain the Knoll Garden. These activties are all at the Ku-ring-gai Wildflower Garden, St Ives. See the  NSG entries on the calendar on the APS NSW Activities page for propagation and bushcare entries.

Next Evening Meeting

Next meeting Friday 14th February 2025 7.30pm for 8.00pm at Beatrice Taylor Hall, Hornsby.

Details to be announced.



Plants for sale, library & supper.

ALL Welcome

The Beatrice Taylor Hall is behind Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre at 25 Edgeworth David Avenue, Hornsby. There will be plant sales after the meeting (cash only, please bring change) and refreshments. The NSG Botanical library is also available for members to browse and borrow items.

Zoom meetings can be attended by non-members by contacting Sue Fredrickson to request the Zoom link. Sue can be contacted on paulandsuefreddo@bigpond.com or 0401 362 921.

Upcoming and Recent Meetings

Meeting reports can be found in the Blandfordia of the month following the meeting.

2024

November: Sashini Perera - Val Williams Scholarship winner 2023

October: Pat Schwartz 'The Hills Hornsby Rural Koala Project'

September: Elly Gearing 'Australia’s extinction crisis: Why is it the worst in the world and what is being done to slow the decline? Australian Wildlife Conservancy are turning the tables'

August: Petra Holland 'iNaturalist – a one-of-a-kind citizen science tool'

July:  Tania Lamble and Bruce Usher report on a recent trip to a Bush Heritage property

June: Kelly Bollinger 'Warada Njurang Hornsby Community Nursery'

May: Nadiah Roslen 'FrogID: people-powered frog conservation'

April: Tony Maxwell 'Cliff Beauglehole (1920-2002) - Botanical collector beyond belief'

March: Penny Hunstead 'Bush Tucker'

February: David Roberts 'Using fire in our native gardens'


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