'Australian Plants' Journal - Contents

"Australian Plants" carries articles of interest to both amateur growers and professionals in botany and horticulture. Its authors include the leading professional and amateur researchers working in with the Australian flora and many beautiful and high quality photographs of Australian plants are published in its pages.

Indexes to 'Australian Plants' Volumes 1 to 24 can be freely downloaded as PDF files from the Australian Plants Society (NSW) website.

These are some of the topics covered in recent issues of "Australian Plants":

'Australian Plants' - Cover Issue 213: December 2012

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This issue features the Regional Botanic Gardens of Queensland.

* Botanic Gardens of Queensland
* Pea flowers of the Gold Coast Regional Botanic Gardens
* Redlands City Botanic Gardens - Indigiscapes
* The Mackay Regional Botanic Gardens
* Some wonderful Queensland species that can be grown in cool climates
* Proteaceae of south-west Queensland - an amazing food source
* Zieria collina, Hill Zieria - a vulnerable understorey plant in Tamborine Mountain Botanic Gardens
* Inland, but not outback - Peacehaven Botanic Park
* Cooktown Botanic Gardens - the first flora of Australia
* The Birdwing project at the Gold Coast Regional Botanic Gardens
'Australian Plants' - Cover Issue 212: September 2012

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This issue features a travel guide for the best wildflower sites in the south-west of Western Australia, including a route guide and map. It is a follow up to the articles in the September 2011 issue of 'Australian Plants'.

* Introduction: Where to see WA wildflowers
* Practicalities
* A tick of disapproval
* Start in Kings Park
* Putting it together
* The blue route - the north
* The red route - the east
* The purple route - Hyden and the south coast
* The green route - Albany and the south-west
'Australian Plants' - Cover Issue 211: June 2012

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This issue features Australian native plant cultivars and the work of the Australian Cultivar Registration Authority (ACRA).

* ACRA - Definitions and procedures
* Australian Cultivar Registration Authority - A Brief History
* Key Office Bearers of ACRA
* ACRA: Reflections on the early days
* A brief history of Australian native plant cultivars
* ACRA and the Australian Native Plants Society (Australia)
* Descriptions of significant cultivars
'Australian Plants' - Cover Issue 210: March 2012

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This issue features Tasmania and was compiled by Dick Burns, on behalf of the Australian Plants Society Tasmania Inc. It also includes a tribute to Gwen Elliott and Ken Warnes, recipients of the 2011 Australian Plants awards at the ANPSA Biennial Conference in Adelaide.

* The Tasmanian vegetation - gardens separated by time and change
* Wildflower garden in Tasmania revisited
* APST Hobart Group's 2010 wildflower spectacular
* The Epacrids - ten years on
* Gardening for natural biodiversity
* Bush recovery at Knocklofty Reserve
* 2011 Australian Plants Awards
'Australian Plants' - Cover Issue 209: December 2011

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This issue is devoted to the wildflowers and environment of the Grampians in western Victoria.

* The Grampians Ranges
* Endemic plants of the Grampians
* Wild Nature In the Grampians
* Pomonal Indigenous Garden
* Gardening in the Grampians
* Gardening with Australian native plants - The added bonus of attracting our wonderful wildlife
* 'Panrock Ridge'
* Growing correas in the Grampians
* Growing Grampians Thryptomene commercially in the Grampians
* The Pomonal Native Flower Show
'Australian Plants' - Cover Issue 208: September 2011

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This issue is devoted to the wildflowers and environment of the south-west of Australia.

* Introduction: Wildflowers of the South West
* The environment
* Plants in the landscape
* Coping with the environment
* Pollination wars
* Diversity
'Australian Plants' - Cover Issue 207: June 2011

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* The Victorian Wimmera - a floral hot spot
* Waterways of the Wimmera
* Gary & Bev Aitken's Garden and Adjoining Wetlands
* Little Desert National Park
* 'Kumbala' - the garden of Peter and Leonne Gebert
* Mount Arapiles -Tooan State Park
* June Rogers' small garden in the Wimmera
* The Wail Arboretum
* Yaraandoo
* Wimmera revegetation projects
* Wartook Gardens
'Australian Plants' - Cover Issue 206: March 2011

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* Botanic Gardens of Adelaide - Sustainable Landscapes Native Garden Initiative
* Stokes Bay Wildflower Garden
* Fire at Cape Borda
* Awakening wilderness
* Welcome to the wonderful world of Santalaceae in South Australia
* Growing Verticordias in South Australia
* Un-described Helmet Orchids (Corysanthes) from South Australia
* The Genus Eucalyptus and me
* Correas in suburbia
* Growing Waratahs in South Australia
* The Australian Arid Lands Botanic Garden
* Pangarinda Arboretum
'Australian Plants' - Cover Issue 205: December 2010

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* The significance of Wattle Day
* George Raper's First Fleet paintings
* Growing Australian plants in the Netherlands
* Amsterdam Botanical Garden
* Growing native plants in Japan
* My northwest England garden
* Eucalyptus gunnii: pioneer Australian tree in Britain
* A snippet from the United States of America
* Australian natives thriving in northeast Florida
* Australian plants in Texas
* Growing Eucalyptus in cold winter/hot summer regions
'Australian Plants' - Cover Issue 204: September 2010

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Special Issue: 40th Anniversary of the Australian National Botanic Gardens

* Introduction: Australian National Botanic Gardens
* Australian National Botanic Gardens - some personal reflections over 40 years
* Australia's national living collection
* Creating a rainforest in Canberra
* The alpine seed research project
* The ANBG's role in securing endangered species - a focus on Zieria obcordata
* Pest and diseases management - a holistic approach
* The evolution of the Australian acacias
* Pot displays with Sturt's desert pea (Swainsona formosa)
* Australian plant stories - exploring iconic plants at the ANBG
* Growing the garden out of the grassland - the challenge of a threatened community garden in a prominent public space
'Australian Plants' - Cover Issue 203: June 2010

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* History of the Acacia Study Group
* Australian acacias of the rainbow
* Wattle become of Acacia: An update
* The wattle garden - Mt Annan Botanic Gardens, NSW
* Acacias at the Australian Arid Lands Botanic Garden - Port Augusta, South Australia
* Tasmanian acacias
* Wattles and allergies
* Saving biodiversity through introducing arid, semi-arid and dry tropical acacias to gardens

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