Alex, from the ANU, will talk about the value of fossilised pollen for understanding environmental changes over time, and measuring the amounts and types of pollen across Australia today to understand the links, including collection by VegeMap, a citizen science project. Abstract Fossilised pollen is a little-known but essential part of our understanding of environmental […]
Thank you very much to our wonderful weeders for removing more than 1760 woody weeds at our September work party in the grassland and woodland area of Black Mountain Nature Reserve. We look forward to seeing you at the next work party on 5 October. Details of the next weeding work party (including the booking […]
Discover some spring-flowering native terrestrial orchids and learn something more of this fascinating group of plants with Matt Mullaney, Jean Egan, Shoko Okado, and Tobias Hayashi. DATE Sunday 6 October, 9:30am–12 noon and repeated 1:30pm–4pm MEET at the car park on the mountain side of Caswell Drive. Look for FOBM banners; (from Belconnen Way drive […]
Graham, an internationally awarded photographer, will describe his artistic approach to photographing botanic subjects and will give practical insights into producing exhibition quality shots of flora and associated fauna, from the tallest tree to the most detailed macro view of flowers, fungi and associated pollinators. Abstract When faced with a botanical subject that requires photographing […]
The Growing Friends will hold their Spring Native Plant Sale on Saturday 12 October in the car park between the Banksia Centre and the Crosbie Morrison Building. While a little later than last year, this still allows sufficient time for plants to be established before the challenges of summer. The sale will run from 9:00-11:00 (unless sold […]
Our very popular Annual Spring Wildflower Ramble celebrates the spring flowering on beautiful Black Mountain with a social ramble for wildflower lovers in the tradition established by Nancy Burbidge, continued by George Chippendale, and then Jean Geue. Discover the surprising diversity of tiny orchids, bush peas, wattles and billy buttons on easy bush tracks with […]