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Collector's Plant Fair - 2021

Thanks to Sandie Cleaver.

"Following our April Meeting I decided I would take off for this Fair on a beautiful Saturday morning – such an exciting drive along Hawkesbury Road and descending the winding road to townships below and on to the Hawkesbury Race Club Clarendon opposite the aerodrome. I didn’t have any trouble parking and not because I arrived particularly early but there seemed adequate space outside the main enclose on the roadside, and shelter for my car also.

I simply got lost in time engrossing myself on the sheer volume of plants and the calm enthusiasm of the stand holders many having come substantial distances leaving home at an unholy hour and there was quite a bit of wind around to contend with as most stands were partially shaded by their tents. I seemed attracted to – well almost everything except the coffee stands and I loathe queues but mostly the sheer variety of Salvia – the geraniums best displayed by Geranium Cottage (Dural) and bromeliads – also the startling colours and variety of orchids and nobody could deny the popularity of succulents which were substantially represented."
Sandie

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Janice's Garden

Pink Flannel Flowers

Actinotus forsythii These beautiful, small flowers are flowering in the Blue Mountains now because of last year’s bushfires and the good spring rain that followed. They like to grow in shallow, skeletal soils on ridges. Interestingly it is the smoke of the bushfire rather than the heat that helps the flowers germinate. The flowers last only a few months and it may be many years before conditions are favourable for them to flower again.
Thank you, Annabel Fraser. Also, Merilyn Shields and Carol Conway.

Pauline's Covid Year

See the March 2021 Newsletter for Pauline's story. Here are the pics

February Meeting - A new beginning

With all the planning, rules and structure required to get the meeting going, we forgot to record the event in pictures. Thankfully Sandie Cleaver took a couple of pics. Did anyone else? send them to us and we'll put them up here.