Jul 15, 2024 | Events Category, News
APCC14 Special Guest Speaker announcement!
Costa Georgiadis will be making an appearance at the conference and giving what’s sure to be a very entertaining and illuminating talk on how to get more people interested in native plants and their conservation.
Costa almost needs no introduction. He is a landscape architect, environmental educator, author and has been a presenter of gardening television shows for decades, starting as co-creator and host of Costa’s Garden Odyssey on SBS before becoming a host on ABC’s iconic Gardening Australia program in 2013, continuing to this day.
Beyond the screen, Costa is heavily involved in promoting the importance of biodiversity and preserving habitat, through sustainable gardening and land management. He is a prolific public speaker and an Ambassador for Junior Landcare, sharing his knowledge with a wide variety of audiences. He lives and breathes gardening, relishing the natural world and our connection to it.
You can learn more about the conference and register at the conference webpage: https://www.anpc.asn.au/conferences-apcc14/
Jul 4, 2024 | News
Less than 40 plants of the Critically Endangered Caladenia ancylosa (Genoa spider orchid) remain in two populations in the wild.
Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria (RBGV) scientists have been growing more than 200 seedlings this year from seed collected post the 2020 mega fires. Seed has been grown symbiotically with mycorrhizal fungi which is required for germination.
RBGV and La Trobe University Scientists this Spring will be doing pollinator studies, to locate suitable sites for future translocations and unravel any pollinator sharing that may occur with closely related species. Surveys for this species are planned in East Gippsland this Spring as part of the ‘Preventing the extinction of Victoria’s threatened flora project’ led by Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria.
Caladenia ancylosa seeds – Credit: Noushka Reiter
This research is funded by Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action‘s Nature Fund.
The ‘Preventing the extinction of Victoria’s threatened flora’ project is led by Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria in partnership with La Trobe University, Australian Network for Plant Conservation, DEECA, Trust for Nature, Wimmera Catchment Management Authority, Nillumbik Shire, ENVITE, Bairnsdale & District Field Naturalists Club, Friends of the Grampians Gariwerd, WAMA Botanic Gardens, Halls Gap Botanic Gardens and the Australasian Native Orchid Society Victorian Branch.
Feature image – Credit: Noushka Reiter
