Annual General Meeting of the NW Group to be held
at the Education Centre at
the Tasmanian Arboretum
arrive 10.30am for 10.45am start.

Rees Campbell will give a 1 hour talk on Native bush foods with possible food tasting (to be confirmed)

BYO lunch and then walk around Arboretum with group or at your leisure.

Contact: Bruce or Tony if you require further details

Location: Kingston Primary School, follow the red line on map below

Cuttings that have taken to be potted up
Potting up from tiny pots to 75mm pots,
Weeding and topping up with mix,
Pots to be scrubbed and
Potting mix to make up.

Hobart Group AGM and General Meeting at 7 pm all welcome

Accepting the AGM Minutes for 2025, presentation of President’s Report, acceptance of the Treasurer’s annual Financial Report and the election of Office Bearers and Committee for the following year. Election of new President, Secretary, Treasurer and Committee members. (see below Notice of AGM)

The AGM will be followed by a General Meeting and Supper with Christine Corbett’s talk on Changing a Hill of Weeds into a Pond Garden

Contact: the Secretary if further information required

NOTICE

ANNUAL GROUP MEETING

OF

AUSTRALIAN PLANTS SOCIETY INC.

HOBART GROUP

To be held on March11th 2026 at 7pm

at Kingston Primary School Library, Church Street, KINGSTON

for the purpose of 1. accepting the AGM Minutes for 2025, 2. for the presentation of the President’s Report, 3. the acceptance of the Treasurer’s annual Financial Report, and 4. the election of Office Bearers and Committee for the following year.

Nominations will be accepted prior to February 25th for:

President

Vice President (position presently vacant)

Treasurer

Secretary

and Committee

Please notify the Secretary if you would like to nominate yourself or another member for any of the above.

The AGM will be followed by a General Meeting and Supper.

Contact: Bruce or Tony if you require further details

Location: Kingston Primary School, follow the red line on map below

Jobs this month will mostly revolve around getting all the more advanced plants ready
for our sale, including checking they all have a name tag. Hopefully we will still have
some time to do some cuttings and get them growing before winter arrives.

Normal propagation session at the Tasmanian Arboretum at Eugenana. starting at 10.00am until 2:00pm (or shorter time if that suits you better). Everybody welcome.

Come along and learn how to grow native plants from cuttings using our own mixed growing medium. This skill can transfer over to non-natives and some fruit plants as well.

Combine your propagation session with a lovely stroll around the Arboretum afterwards.

Please contact Riitta Boevink on 0448 386 909 if you would like to attend, please bring your own lunch

Excursion: Pipeline Track, Neika to Fern Tree

An easy downhill stroll of 4.5km on a good track, with diverse vegetation and some geological interest. Contact Keith Corbett

Contact: Bruce or Tony if you require further details

Location: Kingston Primary School, follow the red line on map below

Jobs this month will mostly revolve around getting all the more advanced plants ready
for our sale, including checking they all have a name tag. Hopefully we will still have
some time to do some cuttings and get them growing before winter arrives.

The North West Group will be hosting the State AGM in the Education Centre at the Tasmanian Arboretum on 28 March.

Arrive at 10.45am for an 11am sharp start to the AGM, this will be followed by Rees Campbell giving a different 45 minute talk to the earlier NW AGM talk on 7 March.

Around 12.30pm, the North West group to supply lunch followed by either Council meeting which every member is invited to attend but not compulsory or a group walk around the Arboretum.

About our Guest Speaker:

Rees Campbell was born and lives in beautiful Tasmania which has imbued her with a sense of wonder and passion for the natural world, conservation and environmentalism. With her husband Col and Darci - the poodle, they have developed “Murnong Wild Food Garden” at Wynyard, where they grow and showcase over 120 species of native edible plants alongside the usual productive fruit and vegetable plants.

Author of the sell-out Eat Wild Tasmanian and its expanded edition Eat MORE Wild Tasmanian, Rees seeks always to share the knowledge and joy of how best to grow, harvest and eat these wonderful botanical gifts. Expanding our knowledge of Tasmanian native edibles to seaweeds, Rees wrote The Seaweed Supplement, which identifies the best of Tasmania’s edible seaweeds, discusses their health, nutritional values; and of course, how to prepare and cook this amazing free food.

 As the Feisty Tasmanian, Rees also makes a wide range of preserves and baked goods from the home grown harvest as part of normalising eating Tasmanian native land and sea plants as integral to our mixed horticultural and culinary heritage.

Thark Ridge, Mt Wellington

About a year ago some of us attempted a medium-length loop walk through the alpine vegetation of Thark Ridge behind Mt Wellington, but there was so much botanical distraction that in half a day we only got about 1.5 km out and back again. Keith Corbett would like to have another go, and may or may not get any further. Botanical interest guaranteed. Could be up to 7km, around 300 m of height gain, some rough track. Contact Keith Corbett - keith.corbett@bigpond.com, 0419 593 059.r

Guest Speaker Katherine Tuft, CEO of Tasmanian Land Conservancy, will talk
about the work of TLC with a bias towards the botanical aspects which are
important in all TLC reserves and critically important in some of them.

Contact : Louise Skabo

Location: Max Fry Hall, 60 Gorge Road Trevallyn : Sales commence at 9.45am and continues until sold out

Excursion: Peter Murrell Reserve, Kingston

A stroll though this well-known reserve which has such a wide range of species
and vegetation communities. More details later

Bev’s Lookout, South Bruny

The Slide Track is the remains of a timber tramway (easy gradient) that heads south behind Adventure Bay and passes through forest from dry to wet sclerophyll. A branch track then diverts towards the coast through rainforest and some steeper sections before emerging above the coastal cliffs. 8km, 200m ascent, mostly good track but some steep sections (one short section very steep). More details later

Guest Speaker Hugh McGregor has researched feral cats in diverse parts of
Australia and will talk to us about the devastating impact they
have on small native animals in all habitats.

Excursion: Inala Gondwanan Garden, Bruny Island

Subject to confirmation we hope to be able to visit this impressive garden of plant
species from all the land masses that were originally part of Gondwana (South America,
New Zealand, Australia, South Africa). More details later.

Sunday Walk: Snug Tiers

Most of the Snug Tiers were badly burned in January 2025. We plan to have a look at how the regeneration is progressing. The walk begins with a steady climb up a south-facing hillside with the sort of moist-environment vegetation to be expected in such places. Once we reach the plateau the first few hundred metres escaped the fire and show a different vegetation community. Then we get into the burned area and what we will see is hard to predict - that’s why it should be interesting. The walk is entirely on 4WD roads but the initial climb is a big hill, 250m height gain. How far we go depends on you but unlikely to be more than 6km total. More details later.

Excursion: Garden Visits

We’d love to have a garden visit but need a volunteer (or several). Do you have a garden you would be prepared to share with other APST members? It doesn’t matter if it’s not as neat and tidy as Versailles, we just like looking at what you have done with native plants. If you can offer your garden please contact Peter Tuft - peter@tuft.id.au, 0414 297 487.

Sunday Walk: Poverty Point, south of Cygnet

A walk along or close to the shoreline of the Huon estuary with the diversity
of vegetation to be expected in such places, and some geological interest too.
A repeat of a walk from about a year ago, but people enjoyed it so much
is seems worth doing again. More details later.

Robyn Tuft will talk about the vegetation of the Kosciusko alpine region
and contrast it with Tasmania’s alpine areas, including the effects of the contrasting seasons.