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Australian Plants Society Victoria
Promoting Australian plants for more than 50 years

The late Arthur SwabyArthur Swaby had a deep conviction that Australian plants deserved a prominent place in Australian horticulture. For several years he wrote a column called "Know Your Natives" in the popular gardening magazine "Your Garden".

In 1957, inspired by enthusiastic interest in his column, he called a meeting for anyone who liked to grow Australian native plants. The response was overwhelming, and the Society for Growing Australian Plants was born.

APS Victoria has grown from a single group to 28 District Groups right across our state, and from its origins in Victoria, APS rapidly spread across Australia to become the country's largest horticultural society.

We are now one of the seven autonomous state and territory bodies which make up our national body, the Association of Societies for Growing Australian Plants.

 

Our objectives

Acacia pycnantha © Graham OliverPromote and maintain interest in growing and propagating Australian plants in home gardens and public places

Encourage the recognition and development of distinctive landscape styles and forms using Australian plants

Improve Australian plants as garden subjects

Monitor and encourage the strengthening of the laws for preservation of flora

Encourage the nursery industry to propagate and supply Australian plants to the general public

Support all information received by the Association on methods of propagation and of the sources of supply of plants and seeds available for distribution and to publish such information from time to time

Establish and encourage District Groups

Encourage and facilitate the conservation and study of Australian plants and their habitats, especially in the Australian region

Further the dissemination of knowledge and to act as a source of informed opinion on those matters

Carry on any other activity for the furtherance and extension of the purposes of the Association

Photo Acacia pycnantha © Graham Oliver

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