A great meeting was had last week with our guest speaker Danica from Marvellous Minibeasts. Ladybirds are amazing beneficial insects and voracious predators, particularly the larva. They can eat about 5000 aphids in their lifetime! And they eat other pests too like scale, spider mites, thrips, mealy bugs , psyllid and whitefly. What an incredible […]

It’s nearly time for our first meeting of 2025 at the Parent Body. We’ll be catching up on 24th February at our usual place, John McGrath Hall, 97 Hensman Street, South Perth. We are very lucky to have a guest speaker this month, Danica from Marvellous Minibeasts talking about ladybirds, beneficial insects and natural pest […]

Trevor and Regina are having another fund raising Garage Sale in December, the dates are 7th & 8th /14th & 15th, see below. The funds they raise are helping to keep The Darling Range Wildlife Shelter operating. They have also had notification from Santa’s workshop in the North Pole that Santa is having a stop […]

Professor Stan Kailis gave a wonderful talk at our meeting on Monday 28th October, ‘All About Olives’ covering the history, propagation, nutritional and health benefits of olives and their products. We had oil samples to try, tips on elevating the humble store bought bottle of olives to another level for table olives and how to […]

What a lovely Herb High Tea we had this morning, thank you Ericka for all your cooking and hosting and to all the other helping hands and chefs. Ericka your garden is amazing, full of beautiful plants and herbs and so shady, just perfect. Lots of eating, drinking tea and coffee, catching up with old […]

Our October meeting is fast approaching now on Monday 28th October. This month we are very lucky to have a guest speaker Professor Stan Kailis, Director of the Australian Mediterranean Olive Research Institute who is an Olive Oil Specialist. His talk is titled “All About Olives“. His areas of interest include the Mediterranean Diet, propagation […]

Coming up soon on 23rd September is the Parent Body Herb Society WA meeting, there are 5 Mondays this month so don’t be fooled and it is a public holiday on the 23rd… This month we have herb talks by members, herb plants for sale, herb of the month, raffles and a light supper. Please […]

Vanessa Scotford and Ericka Stean have been hard at work all morning setting up the Herb Society stall for the Plant Fair this weekend, please give us a visit if you can and stock up on some herbs! Bring your cash, see you there ??

Only a week to go now before the Garden Clubs and Societies Plant Fair. The Herb Society will be there and we have loads of plants for sale, over 400 at the last count! Please put together some cash and come along for a browse. We are at our usual low prices so come and […]

Trevor and Regina are hosting another fundraising Garage Sale in September for The Darling Range Wildlife Shelter. It’s for a great cause so please go along and show your support if you can. A electric gopher has been donated for the event, looking for the best offer! Details as per the flyer below…