Garden Design Talk – Shirley Fisher

Shirley Fisher OAM

Shirley Fisher grew up in South Africa in a family of passionate garden designers and created four different gardens there, mainly with local plants.   She emigrated to Western Australia and transferred her interest in native flora to the native flora of West Australia.

Here in Bunbury, Capel and Dunsborough, she has created three different gardens. She has learned about local plants by helping to develop a native nursery in Bunbury (Leschenault Community Nursery) and being its main seed collector.  As well, she has worked as a volunteer in the South West Regional Herbarium for DPaW in Bunbury.  She is now very keen to find ways to use our local flora in traditional style gardens.

Shirley has no official qualifications in this field, but just a passionate interest, and is an accomplished and inspiring artist, gardener and designer. As a member of the Wildflower Society of Western Australia, Shirley has also been a member of the Garden Design Study Group.

http://anpsa.org.au/design/index.html

Doors will open at 1.30pm

This is South West Capes Branch our first hall/meeting event for 2017. It is an open event for Wildflower Society members, visitors and guests.
As with some Wildflower Society branches, you are invited to bring a small garden specimen or potted plant to display on a table, and for discussion before and after the meeting – it might be something flowering, an interesting foliage plant, a plant you would like identified, …

For the coming months, we have planned:

• Sunday 26th March – bush walk (members only)
• Sunday 23rd April – general meeting with branch member contribution and AGM (members only)
• Saturday 6th May – hall/open meeting event with a talk by Eremophila expert and propagator, Phil James (Eremophila Nursery, Kalamunda)
• Botanical Art Workshop with Jan Pittman – Saturday-Sunday 17th -18th June. Details soon.

Enquiries: Richard Clark, Secretary
0427 385 551
rmc@swisp.net.au