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GROWING THE FLORA OF WESTERN
AUSTRALIA'S SOUTH WEST
(WITH THE HELP OF OUR VOLUNTEER
WORKFORCE)
OUR COMMUNITY NURSERY GROWS OVER 150
NATIVE LOCAL SPECIES
FROM THE FLORA OF SOUTH WEST WESTERN AUSTRALIA
(CAPEL TO AUGUSTA)
FOR REVEGETATION AND GARDENS
Come and help us grow local plants
- Volunteer enquiries
welcome
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Newsletter 2:
June 2009
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ORDERS WELCOME
0429 644 885
Thanks to
our retiring Nursery Coordinator
Lynne Boladeras
At the end of
June, we farewelled our retiring Nursery
Coordinator Lynne
Boladeras. The
nursery committee, our volunteers, and the wider community thank
Lynne for the tremendous job she has done at the
nursery.
Welcome to
our new Nursery Coordinator
Ann
Bentley
We welcome our newly-appointed
coordinator Ann
Bentley. Please see the notes about
contacting the nursery in our June e-Newsletter.
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Geographe Community Landcare
Nursery ... More at About Us.
- Local native plants for LANDCARE
(revegetation, ecological or environmental
restoration and biodiversity projects)
- Local native plants for GARDENS
(public and private, landscaping,
...)
To navigate our website
- scroll
down to a selection of our pages
- use the left menu panel
- or peruse the Site Map
Website Notes:
a page on browsing our website and using the internet.
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our Summer Sale was
Saturday
28th February 2009
8.00 a.m to 3.00 p.m.
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our
2009 Open
Day
was
Saturday 2nd
May
8.00 a.m. to 3.00
p.m. |
next
event
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Busselton Wildflower
Exhibition
17th & 18th
September
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Nest
Boxes
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In a piece of
untouched bushland, cut off from the burden of our sophosticated
civilisation, we can find that refreshment of spirit that only the
wilds of Nature can offer.
Vincent
Serventy
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Photo gallery: Visitors
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There are over 1000
species in the flora of Busselton (and surrounding
areas).
Our nursery grows well over 150 Busselton
species. Help us to
grow more!
For a
list of what we grow, go to our 2009 Nursery List
(links
below).
one of the species we don't grow:
K is for Kingia
australis
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ORDERS
Please note:
we do not sell by mail order.
Some Australian plant
nurseries who do mail order are
listed on this
page.
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online WHAT WE
GROW list in various categories
- trees, shrubs, sedges, rushes, climbers, groundcovers,
...
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Thanks to all the people
who helped with our first Open
Day
and thanks to everyone who
came! More
about the 2008
Open Day ...
IF YOU
MISSED GEOGRAPHE COMMUNITY LANDCARE
NURSERY AT THE
- 2008 BUSSELTON WILDFLOWER EXHIBITION SEPTEMBER 18th and
19th
- 2008 BUSSELTON & DISTRICTS HORTICULTURAL
SOCIETY 2008
Flower & Garden Show October 17th
& 18th
- 2009 SUMMER
SALE 28th February
- 2009 Open
Day 2nd May. More about the 2009 Open
Day
PLEASE CALL IN
!
We are open on Mondays and Tuesdays 8.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.
or contact us by email or
phone
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SERI 2009
WORLD CONFERENCE ON
ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION (in PERTH in
AUGUST)
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What is biodiversity?
Check out the Wikipedia, IPS (Inter Press Service), Bonn Biodiversity Summit
May 2008, Spiegel Online - The Value of Nature.
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Click here to
find out about a new service called NatureMap provided by our Department of Environment and Conservation and the
Western Australian
Museum. |
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Give us
the perception of the wonders of nature,
And the wisdom to preserve them
for generations to come. |
Rica
Erickson |
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Australian Grass
Gardens
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Busselton's best secret . . .
out of the blue in
Busselton
out of the blue also at: Kwinana, ...
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June 2009 Marianthus tenuis is
flowering now
a celebration of
Western Australian wildflowers
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Keep those
entries coming in! |
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Saltbushes as a Garden Shrubs |
Male and female flowers on separate
plants: Pimelea
argentea
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Take a closer look
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Gahnia trifida
ROOTS |
 One of our
new species pages: Climbing Triggerplant
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WHAT WE ARE
STARTING TO GROW FROM CUTTINGS
at the last count (5th June 2009) 82
species
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Silver & Grey
Plants
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Garden: growing plants from seed
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| From the Garden pages - Small Plants for
Gardens |
A
Tribute to R.D.Royce 1914-2008
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Collecting Seed
(with some links to our seed images)
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Food
Plants
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TELL THE WORLD ABOUT THE NURSERY
WEBSITE
updated
1st June 2009
add Cameroon, Costa
Rica, ... More ...
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Geographe Community Landcare
Nursery
opening windows into our
flora |
