PROGRAM AT A GLANCE
A Full program will be available in early 2024. Please register your details below to receive all information and newsletter with ANPSA Conference updates.
Monday 30 September 2024
Conference Lectures: The Round, Nunawading
8:30AM - 5:30PM
Welcome to Country and Opening of Conference
• Raising Rarity | Dr Megan Hirst
• Saving our Rare Orchids | Dr Noushka Reiter
• Urban Forests for People and Climate Change | Dr Greg Moore
• Creating Bird Habitat in the Home Garden | Dr Annie Naimo
• Nature, Our Medicine: How the natural world sustains us | Dr Dimity Williams
• Gardens for Wildlife | Nadine Gaskell
Tuesday 1 Oct 2024
Day Excursions: Meet and return to The Round, Nunawading
8:30AM - 5:30PM
Choice of one day excursion
Melton Botanic Garden
Dandenong Ranges National Park - Sherbrooke Forest, Karwarra Botanic Gardens and the Chelsea Australian Garden at Olinda
Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria Cranbourne (RBGVC), the Australian Garden
Grasslands tour in the suburbs of Melbourne
Anglesea Heathland on the Great Ocean Road.
Gardens for Wildlife. Three private Gardens in Melbourne’s Eastern suburbs (City of Knox)
Wednesday 2 Oct 2024
Conference Lectures: The Round, Nunawading
8:30AM - 3:30PM
Attendees will have a choice of six lectures to attend
• Australian Food Plants Study Group
• Wetlands Gardens
• Grampians/Gariwerd Endemic Botanic Garden
• Saving Threatened Species DNA Mapping
• Street Verge Gardens for Pollinators
• Native Plants as Food, Medicine, and Tools for First Nations People.
• Designing Gardens for Wildlife
• Conservation and Cultivation of Rare Grampians Endemic Plants
• Saving and Restoring Our Remnant Grasslands
• The Merri Creek Success Story
• Australian Pea Flower Study Group
• Bush Flowers for Floristry
• Mistletoes
• Eremophila, a plant for all climates
AJ Swaby Address - Phillip Johnson
3:30PM - 4:30PM
ANPSA 2024 Conference Dinner, hosted by APS Maroondah
From 6:30PM
Thursday 3 Oct 2024
Day Excursions: Meet and return to The Round, Nunawading
8:30AM - 5:30PM
Choice of one day excursion
Melton Botanic Garden
Dandenong Ranges National Park - Sherbrooke Forest, Karwarra Botanic Gardens and the Chelsea Australian Garden at Olinda
Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria Cranbourne (RBGVC), the Australian Garden
Grasslands tour in the suburbs of Melbourne
Anglesea Heathland on the Great Ocean Road.
Gardens for Wildlife. Three private Gardens in Melbourne’s Eastern suburbs (City of Knox)
Friday 4 Oct 2024
Conference Lectures: The Round, Nunawading
8:30AM - 3:40PM
• Wattles and Wildlife | Bill Aitchison
• Urban Meadows Project - Birrarung Marr and Royal Park | John Raynor
• Wetlands Restoration and Wetlands at Home | Damian Cook
• Lyrebirds ecosystem engineers | Dr Alex Maisey
• Peppermint Ridge Native Foods | Julie Weatherhead