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Wandering around Wondul Range
Author: Glenn Leiper Published: Journal March 2022 Image above: A higher jump-up at Wondul Range National Park It was winter 2021 and I’d heard from a couple of friends that after some good rains, the wildflowers around Millmerran and Inglewood, particularly Wondul...

Millmerran Revisited
Author: Glenn Leiper Published: Journal March 2022 Image above: A large granite outcrop looks imposing In the September 2021 edition of 'Native Plants Queensland', I wrote about a recent visit to two peaks near Millmerran, and in particular the granite peak within...

The TAS Indigenous Garden
Author: Don Lowie, Cairns Branch Species list compiled by Cairns Regional Council Published: Journal December 2021 The Trinity Anglican School (TAS) at White Rock, a southern suburb of Cairns City, has extensive grounds containing much greenery. A...

Noosa National Park
Author: Pamela Watson, NPSC Excursions Photos: Spenser Shaw Published: Journal December 2021 Native Plants Sunshine Coast visit to Noosa Headland section of the Noosa National Park, 11th July, 2021 According to the Noosa Park Project Management Team, the area of the...

Doig Reserves
Author: Robert M Price, Sunshine Coast Branch Published: Journal December 2021 Mothers and others from Native Plants Sunshine Coast assembled on Mother’s Day for a well-attended walk led by Eric Anderson at William Doig and Andrew Doig Parks, Kureelpa, a rural area...

A visit to Tropical North Queensland
Author: Wendy Benfer Photos: Wendy & John Benfer Published: Journal December 2021 Image above: View from our block towards the mouth of the Daintree River. Growing in the foreground is Melastoma malabathricum (syn. Melastoma affine D Don). A few days after the...

Cooktown to McIvor River
Joint excursion with Tablelands and Innisfail Branch Author & Photos: Stuart Worboys Published: Journal September 2021 Image above: Xanthostemon arenarius In early June, SGAP members from Innisfail, Tablelands and Cairns combined to visit one of north...

Millmerran
Author: Glenn Leiper Published: Journal September 2021 In April and May, with the countryside still awash in green from the rains, we made a couple of trips out to Millmerran on the Darling Downs, approximately 200km west of Brisbane, primarily to visit two...

Hopevale & Battle Camp Road to Laura Excursion
Authors: Peter Radke and Renee Venturato Photos: Renee Venturato Published: Journal September 2021 On 4 June 2021, 26 people from SGAP embarked on a five-day excursion to Hopevale, north of Cooktown, the Battle Camp Road and the Laura area. Our Tablelands Branch was...

Hannaford Reserve, near Tara
Author: Glenn Leiper Published: Journal June 2021 The rains had been and gone, and the countryside touched by these rains was ablaze with flowers, especially with a diverse range of little herbaceous species amongst the native grasses. So it was time in early 2021 to...