Region, Branch and Local Study Group Activities for the current period
For more details call the relevant secretary listed on the contacts page.
Last updated January 29, 2012
| DATE | BRANCH/STUDY GROUP | ACTIVITY |
| February | ||
| Wednesday 1 | Brisbane Southside Branch | Meeting - Slide presentation - Leanne's Garden. |
| Thursday 2 | Mackay Branch | Annual General Meeting - reports, elections of Officers, appointments, followed by General Meeting. |
| Sunday 5 | Mackay Branch | MACBOCA Excursion |
| Sunday 5 | Fern Study Group | Meet 9.30am at a home at Bellbowrie. Topic: Polypodiaceae other than Microsorum and Drynaria. |
| Tuesday 7 | Brisbane Western Suburbs Branch | Meeting - Topic to be decided. |
| Friday 10 | Brisbane Daytime Branch | Meeting - 9.30am at a home at Capalaba (UBD Map 204:C8). Shared morning tea, plant raffle and BYO lunch. |
| Sunday 12 | Gladstone Branch | Meet 9.00am in front car park outside Tondoon - convoy to Council owned gully Mt. Rollo - steep deep gully - bring lunch. |
| Sunday 12 | Sunshine Coast & Hinterland Branch | Meeting - 2.00pm at a home at Buderim. |
| Monday 13 | SGAP QLD. REGION | Meeting - State Conference - from Conception to Completion - by Jan Glazebrook, Bev Weir and Denis Cox, who will give details of the organization and enjoyment of the Jacob's Well Conference and post-Conference trip to North Stradbroke Island. |
| Wednesday 15 | Pine Rivers Branch | Meeting - Native Bees with Bob "the Bee-man" Luttrell. |
| Sunday 19 | Kingaroy & Districts Branch | Meeting - Kingaroy Heights Nature Reserve. Phone 4162 4468 or 4163 3301 for details. |
| Sunday 19 | Pine Rivers Branch | Propagation Morning - at a home at Whiteside - 9.00am. Bring usual propagation equipment and seeds or cutting material. Pots and potting mix provided. Be prepared to take home some plants to look after for the next plants sale. |
| Sunday 26 | Grevillea Study Group | Meeting - 9.30am at home at Woodenbong, NSW 2476. Phone: 4666 5118 |
| Sunday 26 | Small Plants Group | Meeting - at a home at Woodenbong, NSW 2476. Phone: 4666 5118. Subject: Summer Colour Using Small Plants. |
| Sunday 26 | Wallum & Coastal Heathland Study Group | Garden Visit with a Difference - A Garden Creation - helping Study Group members plant a new section of garden (plants provided, but any donations of small wallum-type species not refused). Cooling breezes off Pumicestone Passage - bring morning tea & lunch. Details about time & place from Barbara on 5424 7073 evenings. |
| March | ||
| Thursday 1 | Mackay Branch | Meeting - Subject to be decided. |
| Sunday 4 | Gladstone Branch | Meet 8.00-9.00am at Canoe Point for Clean-up Australia Day - pick up sacks - collect any area. Collection of rubbish by Council from shed about 11.00am. Bring picnic lunch. |
| Sunday 4 | Mackay Branch | MACBOCA Excursion |
| Tuesday 6 | Brisbane Western Suburbs Branch | Meeting - AGM and election of Officers, followed by members' slides. |
| Wednesday 7 | Brisbane Southside Branch | Meeting - details to be advised. |
| Friday 9 | Brisbane Daytime Branch | Meeting - 9.30am at Boondall Wetlands Park at Visitors' Centre off Gateway Arterial Road roundabout opposite Boondall Entertainment Centre (UBD Map 111:D13). Shared morning tea, plant raffle and BYO lunch. |
| Sunday 11 | Sunshine Coast & Hinterland Branch | Meeting - (including AGM) 2.00pm at Maroochy Bushland Botanic Gardens. |
| Monday 12 | SGAP QLD. REGION | Meeting - Green and Gold - Collecting Aussie Acacias - by Richard Date, who will speak about his experiences during his 25-year love affair with our wattles. |
| Saturday 17 | Kingaroy & Districts Branch | AGM & General Meeting at a home at Blackbutt. Phone 4179 0555 for details. |
| Sunday 18 | Wallum & Coastal Heathland Study Group | Bribie Island Wallum Day - based at Bribie Island Community Nursery, 1st Ave, Bongaree, just past sports fields on right (see ÒCouncil DepotÓ UBD Map 53 L:18). 9.9.30am for morning tea - look at Wallum areas with John Ward. Lunch at nursery followed by discussion. |
| Wednesday 21 | Pine Rivers Branch | Annual General Meeting & General Meeting - Bush Tucker with Jan Sked, followed by bush tucker supper. Members asked to bring food for supper, preferably including native foods. |
| Sunday 25 | Pine Rivers Branch | Excursion - Sunshine Coast Hinterland Tour with Lawrie Smith - to explore areas that may be visited during the 2013 ANPSA Conference. Meet 8.00am in Mango Hill Tavern Car Park (off Halpine Drive, Mango Hill). |
| April | ||
| Tuesday 3 | Brisbane Western Suburbs Branch | Meeting - Topic to be decided. |
| Monday 9 | SGAP QLD. REGION | Annual General Meeting - come along to hear the reports of the various Officers of SGAP and participate in the election of next year's Office Bearers. Please bring a plate of food to share for supper and a plant for the plant raffle. |
| Sunday 29 | Grevillea Study Group | Meeting - 9.30am at a home at Capalaba (UBD Map 204:C8). Phone: 3390 1908. Subject: DNA presented by Kerry Rathie. |
| Sunday 29 | Small Plants Group | Meeting - at a home at Capalaba (UBD Map 204:C8). |