- A Master Class in Pruning – Phil Dudman May 2024
- Aromatherapy
- Big Scrub Rainforest Plants for Home Gardens
- Bromeliad
- Compost or Worm Wee Tea Recipe
- Cycad
- Feature Foliage
- Floristry
- Gardening Pearls of Wisdom June 2024
- Growing vegetables
- Health and Safety in the Garden – August 2024
- Indoor Plants
- Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
- Native Animals
- Native Plants for Home Gardens on Alstonville Plateau
- Natural Dyeing
- Organic Workshop
- Palms
- Propagation
- RHS Chelsea Flower Show – 2024
- Roses for Sub-Tropical Areas – Part 1
- Soils
- Spray Your Garden The Natural Way
- Succulents
Colin White, our guest speaker has had a love of palms since an early age and a father who planted palms on the Gold Coast in the 1960s.
His garden is packed full of a great variety of palms which can be viewed on our Oct 2014 “Saturday Visits” … his own garden. The term palm is given to plants that carry a large cluster of leaves at the top of a stem or trunk.
They are different to trees.
The palm family has about 2800 species in over 200 genera. The majority of palms are found in the wetter equatorial regions with the richest of these in the Malay Peninsular, Borneo and Sumatra.
The islands of Madagascar, Mascarene and the Seychelles also have very rich palm flora.
Australia has about 50 with 40 of them north of the Tropic of Capricorn. Palm uses include food, shelter and basket making.
Colin displayed a variety of palm fruiting bodies and leaves.
