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Behind the scenes at Harold Porter National Botanical Gardens

Tim had a good meeting with Bernie Carolus from Harold Porter National Botanical Gardens on 17 April 2018. He visited the Educational Centre which is now a pleasantly large and airy building. The nursery is now also well stocked, grey water systems are being installed and the plants on sale will be organised into different vegetation types. The greenhouses and nursery are separate from plant sales area. The purpose of Tim's visit was to find out how developments at Harold Porter National Botanical Gardens are progressing and more particularly, how their work can be supported…
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Kogelberg Branch Botanical Society Members Interest Survey

Thank you to all our members and non-members for participating in the Kogelberg Branch Botanical Society  Members Interest Survey.  We have analysed the results and the findings are reflected below.  The committee will be reviewing the suggestions and watch this spot for future local activities and branch engagements. Question 1 Question 2 Question 3 Question 4 Question 5 Question 6 Do you have any suggestions or comments? A serious attempt needs to be made to inform and involve more non-whites on the inherent value of the Fynbos and natural environment. I see a need for…
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Vacancy: Newsletter Coordinator Volunteer needed

The Kogelberg branch is looking for a volunteer to co-ordinate their monthly newsletter that contains regular features as well as special events, articles of interest and branch updates.  The person would require the following: Ability to liaise with multiple contact points to meet deadlines. Good command of the English language for editing purposes. The ability to use Outlook, Calendar, Word, Mailchimp, Adobe, mail merge, and an understanding of word press is advantageous. An understanding of social media is important, specifically Facebook and Instagram, for sharing of content purposes. Follow up, tenacity and attention to detail…
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YOUR ARTICLES AND CONTRIBUTIONS ARE WELCOME

The editor reserves the right to edit contributions. Deadline for the next newsletter is around 20 August 2016. (Please note the new Newsletter schedule – we need articles in the third week of each month for the following month’s newsletter.) Please address all mail to: Kogelberg Branch of the Botanical Society, PO Box 85, Betty’s Bay 7141 E-mail: peterb5424@gmail.com Editor’s e-mail:  b.attwell@mweb.co.za
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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE KOGELBERG BRANCH OF THE BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF SOUTH AFRICA: JULY 2016

- Merrilee Berrisford: Branch Chairman Last year as we launched our book, Your Place in the Kogelberg by Tim Attwell, could we have imagined that it would be selling at the South African stand at the Chelsea Flower Show, its cover pictured on the back of the official brochure? Sales of Your Place in the Kogelberg have been steady with outlets in the Kogelberg villages, Kirstenbosch, Somerset West, Grabouw and Hermanus. The Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve Company bought 120 copies to sell through its network. At the Botsoc Branch Convention in Port Elizabeth, ten copies sold…
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BOOKS FOR QHAYIYA SECONDARY SCHOOL, HERMANUS

Merrilee Berrisford Qhayita Secondary School pupils admire the gift books Last year a BotSoc member living in our area, someone who chooses to be anonymous, offered to buy the six books in the Indigenous Knowledge Series by Cambridge University Press for the Kogelberg branch to give to a deserving school. Both Curator, Berenice Carolus, and Eunice Jurgens, Senior Environmental Education Officer at Harold Porter NBG, were unanimous that Qhayiya Secondary School in Zwelihle, Hermanus, was the obvious choice. Recently Eunice was at the school to present the books and this is what she wrote: ‘The…
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