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Sunday Talks Program

Time

Mavis Wood Hall

9.00am - 10.00 Nursery sales
Conservation Society Nursery, Glenbrook Native Nursery, Wildplant Rescue Nursery, Lithgow Community Nursery
10.00 - 10.10am Welcome to Country
Dharug Elder, Chris Tobin
10.15am - 10.35am Harmony at Home
Narelle Happ
Garden designer and horticulturalist
10.50am - 11.10am How to reduce bushfire risk in your native garden
Rob Morse
Bushfire Management Officer, Blue Mountains City Council
11.25am - 11.45am Creative native garden design balancing fire risk with aesthetics
Peta Frullani
Horticulturist and landscape designer based in Hazelbrook
12.00pm - 12.15pm Introducing ‘Plant Local’ a new website for native plant identification
Sue Cunningham and Bronya Mach
Environment and Landscape, Blue Mountains City Council
12.15pm - 1.00pm Lunchtime (Quiz – test your plant knowledge)
1.00pm - 1.20pm The Importance of Soil in Native Gardening
Liam Ramage
Geology graduate working in bush regeneration and threatened species management
1.35pm - 1.55pm Climate Change in the Blue Mountains – what do we need to consider when planting?
Bill Dixon
Long term Blue Mountains resident, environmental campaigner and environmental manager
2.15pm - 2.35pm
Our mighty native pollinators – supporting native bees in your garden
Megan Halcroft
Owner of 'Bees Business' and organiser of Pollinators Week
2.55 - 3.15pm
Planting in a shady damp spot? Think ferns
David Sonter
Owns and runs Sonters Fern Nurseries in Winmalee.
3.35pm - 4.05pm Gardening for the birds
Carol Probets

Well-known local expert who ran a bird tour guiding business in the Blue Mountains/Capertee Valley region