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Here’s our guest speaker schedule for the next Kalamunda Garden Festival on Sunday 2nd March, from 10am to 3pm in Stirk Park, Kalamunda, WA.

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Green Life Soil Company Marquee.

10:15am: Sophie Thomson.
Cooler, greener, more liveable gardens.

11:15am: Deryn Thorpe.
Summer survivors – plants that thrive when the temperature soars.

12:15pm: Stephen Ryan.
Plant collecting and why our gardens should be different.

1:15pm: Amy Sloan from My Nonna Life.
From garden to jar – preserving your homegrown harvest.

2:15pm: Laura Blishen from Thrive Sustainability.
Success with seeds.

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Yates Australia Marquee.

10:15am: Stephen Ryan (Dicksonia Rare Plants).
Travelogue on Madeira and the Azores.

11:15am: John Colwill.
So you just bought a plant. Now what?

12:15pm: Neville Passmore (Nifty’s Oddball Plants).
Cut and come again vegetables to grow at home for nutrition and convenience.

1:15pm: Ellen Walker from EarthWhile Australia.
What’s living in your soil?

2:15pm: Sophie Thomson.
Garden guardians – bringing in the beneficial bugs to manage the ‘bad’.

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Elders Midland Marquee.

10:15am: Sabrina Hahn.
Saving our cockatoos from extinction.

11:15am: Courtney Butterworth from Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD).
Small beetle, big problem – the invasive polyphagous shot-hole borer (PSHB).

12:15pm: Sophie Thomson.
Gardening for health and wellbeing.

1:15pm: Andrea Whitely.
Potting mix: buy cheap, buy twice – tips for getting the very best out of your potted plants.

2:15pm: Stephen Ryan.
Propagation (cuttings and seed).