Resources
Here you will find a whole range of resources, information and places to visit including:
- Our plant database with over 400 plants for use in your garden
- Information about how to conserve and use native plants in your garden
- Stories on our members and events underway
- Our monthly enewsletters and archived quarterly journals.
Latest news
Celebrating 50 years of Joseph Banks Native Plants Reserve
In 2020, Joseph Banks Native Plants Reserve at Kareela in southern Sydney is celebrating 50 years. It was established as a bicentenary project to commemorate Cook’s landing at Kurnell in 1770 and Joseph Banks’ botanical legacy. Members of the Australian Plants Society have been involved for over 50 years.
Trees of Cumberland State Forest
Harry Loots from APS Northern Beaches reports on his first visit to Sydney’s Cumberland State Forest. Hidden off Castle Hill Road, it is Australia’s only metropolitan State Forest. It has Sydney Basin species, and the Forestry Commission experimented with many northern NSW and south east Queensland rainforest species to see how well they would grow.
ANPSA reports from Queensland, Victoria and South Australia, November 2020
Recently, ANPSA held its annual meeting, at which the different state bodies reported. Some provided written reports on activities during the year – Queensland, Victoria and SA. These reports are included here.
City and country planting trees together
Graham Fry, the President of East Hills Group is also a member of the Oatley Flora and Fauna (OFF) group. At their February 2020 monthly meeting the guest speaker was Vince Hefferman. Vince owns a sheep property in the southern highlands in the Gunning area. Some years ago he realised that the way the property was managed was not sustainable and that there had to be a better way.
