Recent Events

This month’s meeting will feature a session in which members of the Photographic Group present up to three images for a constructive discussion and critique led by highly experienced and respected Group members, Graham Gall and Steven Playford. This is an opportunity to share photographic knowledge and skills throughout the Photographic Group.

Rod, a retired CSIRO scientist and currently Treasurer of Friends ANBG, will talk about temperature and reproduction of plants, including Australian natives. Bookings open 4 April at https://www.trybooking.com/DAIQT

Emma will discuss work done over the last nine years by the National Seed Bank, ANBG nursery, ACT Office of Nature Conservation and the Parks and Conservation Service teams to collect seed from across the region, establish a seed production orchard, grow on established plants for translocation and design and implement a translocation plan incorporating both genetic rescue and ex-situ population formation of the Small Purple Pea. Bookings open 21 March. Booking link: https://www.trybooking.com/CXZXM

The next Plant Recognition Group workshop will be on macrophytes in streams and wetlands. The workshop will be led by Dr Jane Roberts, a retired vegetation ecologist, who has an ecological consultant to government in vegetation and water management primarily on lowland rivers in the southern Murray-Darling Basin. Bookings ESSENTIAL: Please send your name and phone number to plantname@friendsanbg.org.au   Seats are limited for this session, so booking ahead is mandatory.