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FOR FURTHER REFERENCE ON PROPAGATION, PLANT DESCRIPTIONS

AND GENERAL INFORMATION ON MANY OF THE PLANTS LISTED.

 

1. The Society for Growing Australian Plants is worth joining to gain knowledge of Australian plants in general.  There are many branches in each state, so to find out the details write to the following: (Correspondence by letter only.)

N.S.W.:Secretary, SGAP, 3 Currawang Place, Como West, NSW 2226.

QLD:    Secretary, SGAP, P O Box 586, Fortitude Valley, Qld 4006.

A.C.T: Secretary, SGAP, 11 Collingridge Street, Weston,  ACT 2611.

S.A.:   Secretary, SGAP, 5 Marram Terrace, Largs North,  SA 5016.

TAS:    Secretary, SGAP, GPO Box 1353P, Hobart,  Tas 7001

VIC:    Secretary, SGAP, 17 Craig Court, Heathmont, Vic 3135

W.A.:   Secretary, WA Wildflower Society (Inc.), PO Box 64, Nedlands  WA 6009

PLEASE DO NOT CALL AT PRIVATE HOME, ENQUIRIES BY MAIL ONLY.

 

BOOK REFERENCES:

2. Many books on native plants are available through your local library, the following are some of the most useful.  Bookshops and newsagents have a range available also.

 

The most comprehensive publication is;

"ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AUSTRALIAN PLANTS": - Series – Elliot & Jones

 

"ACACIAS OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA": - Whibley.

"A FIELD GUIDE TO DRYANDRA": - Sainsbury.

"A FIELD GUIDE TO ISOPOGONS & PETROPHILES": - Sainsbury.

"AUSTRALIAN CLIMBING PLANTS": - Jones & Gray.

"AUSTRALIAN INDIGENOUS ORCHIDS": - Dockrill.

"AUSTRALIAN NATIVE PLANTS": - Wrigley & Fagg.

"AUSTRALIAN NATIVE PLANTS FOR INDOORS" D & P Ratcliffe -  ISBN 0-949773-49-2

"AUSTRALIAN PLANTS FOR SMALL GARDENS & CONTAINERS": -Elliot

"ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AUSTRALIAN PLANTS": - Series – Elliot & Jones

"EUCALYPTUS OF THE WESTERN AUSTRALIAN GOLDFIELDS": -Chippendale.

"FIELD GUIDE TO AUSTRALIAN NATIVE SHRUBS": - Holliday & Watton.

"FIELD GUIDE TO AUSTRALIAN WILDFLOWERS": - Hodgson & Paine.

'FIELD GUIDE TO EUCALYPTUS" Vol 1: - Brooker & Kleinig.

"FIELD GUIDE TO WILDFLOWERS OF S.E. AUSTRALIA": - Galbraith.

"FLOWERS & PLANTS OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA": - Erickson, George, Marchant & Morcombe.

"FLOWERS & PLANTS OF NSW & QLD": - Rotherham etc.

"GARDENERS GUIDE TO EUCALYPTUS": - Holliday.

"GARDENING WITH AUSTRALIAN PLANTS & TREES": - Harris

"GUILD TO FLOWERS & PLANTS OF TAS": - Launceston Field & Naturalists Club.

"GUIDE TO WILDFLOWERS OF SW WESTERN AUSTRALIA:- Simon Neville - ISBN  0-9585367-0-8

"GROWING AUSTRALIAN PLANTS": - Holliday & Lothian.

"GROWING MORE AUSTRALIAN NATIVE PLANTS": - Rodgers.

"GROWING TREES ON WESTERN AUSTRALIAN WHEATBELT FARMS": - Newby.

"LANDSCAPING WITH AUSTRALIAN PLANTS": - Wilson.

"NATIVE PLANTS OF QUEENSLAND": - Vols 1-3 - Williams.

"ORCHIDS OF SOUTH-WEST AUSTRALIA": - Hoffman & Brown.

"PLANTS OF PREY"(Stylidium Genus): - Erickson.

"PLANTS OF THE ARID SHRUBLANDS OF WA": -Mitchell & Wilcox.

"PLANTS OF THE KIMBERLEY REGION": - Petheram & Kok.

"THE BANKSIA BOOK": - George.

"THE GREENING OF GONDWANA":- Mary E White (3rd Edition) - ISBN 0-86417-895-6

"THE GREVILLEA BOOK": -Vol 1-3 - P. Olde & N. Marriott.

"TREES FOR RURAL AUSTRALIA (CSIRO) K.W. Cremer - ISBN 0-909605-65-3

"WILDFLOWERS OF SOUTHERN WESTERN AUSTRALIA": - M.G Corrick & B.A. Fuhrer - ISBN 1-87597-149-1

The following book may be relevant:

"A FIELD GUIDE TO WEEDS IN AUSTRALIA": -Lamp.

 

3. To obtain the following write to The Editor, "Australian Plants", 860 Henry Lawson Drive, Picnic Point, NSW 2213.

"AUSTRALIAN DAISIES FOR GARDEN & FLORAL ART": - Daisy Study Group.

"WEST AUSTRALIAN PLANTS FOR HORTICULTURE": - Parts 1 & 2 - Newby.

"NORTH AUSTRALIAN PLANTS": - Harmer.

"CRADLE OF INCENSE"(Prostanthera Genus): - Althofer.

"ACACIAS OF NEW SOUTH WALES": - Armitage.

"AUSTRALIAN PLANTS"; - A quarterly publication by the SGAP.

"AUSTRALIAN PLANTS INDEX": - Vol 1-8 - SGAP

"AUSTRALIAN PLANT GENERA": - Baines.

 

 

 

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