Albany, Western Australia

Presentations delivered at the Conference can be downloaded from the following links (pdf format).

• Tuesday 1 October 2019: Theme - Know

• Keynote Address: Blooming Biodiversity: What is World Class about Western Australia?; Greg Keighery
• Tales from the Fossil Record - Effects of Climate Change on the Evolution and Preservation of Western Australian Plants; Ken McNamara
• Still they come: botanical exploration in Western Australia since 1697; Alex George
  ABSTRACT: The first plant specimens were collected in the west in 1697 and more were collected in 1699. From 1791 collecting became more common and it increased markedly after settlement of the colony in 1829. More than 800,000 specimens have now been gathered in WA, representing almost 13,000 species, but new species continue to turn up in all parts of the State. This talk highlights the major players in the story.
• A View from the Top: Plants and landscape in Early Albany as painted by Robert Dale (1834); Nick Fitzgerald and Stephen Hopper
• Bush Heritage Presentation
  • Just a bit of bush; Libby Sandiford
  • Bush Heritage Australia; Sarah Luxton
• Examining correlation between Nyungar residential patterns and contemporary Macrozamia dyeri distribution; Alison Lullfitz
• Eremophilas in the desert; Bevan Buirchell
• The very special and unique eucalypts of southern WA; Malcolm French
• eGuide to Wildflowers; Greg and Bronwen Keighery
• AJ Swaby address: Old landscapes and new perspectives on wildflowers; Professor Stephen Hopper AC

• Thursday 3 October 2019: Theme - Grow

• A lifetime of growing and still on a huge learning curve; Bob Dixon
• Native plants in the food industry; Geoff Woodall
• 55 years of growing Western Australian plants for the state Botanic Garden; Amanda Shade
• Mastering Banksia Growing; Kevin Collins
• Mastering Banksia Growing; Text of talk; Kevin Collins
• Aussies in a (Dutch) cowshed; Liesbeth Uijtewaal
• Growing native flora in a European environment; Gerald Lorenz
• Study Group Presentations
  • Banksia; Kevin Collins
  • The Other Banksia - Dryandra; Margaret Pieroni
  • Eremophila; Lyndal Thorburn
  • Garden Design; Lawrie Smith
  • Acacia; Bill Aitchison
  • Australian Food Plants; Shelley Gage

• Friday 4 October 2019: Theme - Conserve

• Passion and knowledge in conserving our wildflowers; Bronwen Keighery
• Attempting to Farm with Nature - trials and tribulations in context of a societal industrial-dominated agricultural paradigm; Wendy Bradshaw
• Conservation of Threatened Flora of the South Coast of WA; Dr Sarah Barrett
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