Upcoming Talks

Diarise the date! 18 May 2019 Time: 5.30 pm for 6.00 pm Venue: Nivenia Hall, Harold Porter Gardens Enquiries: Rea Borcherds 028 272 9756   Prospects and Progress with Biological Control of Invasive Alien Trees in the Western Cape By John Hoffmann, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town Biological control, such as deliberately introduced insect and fungus species, has been used as one of the management options for reducing the invasiveness of several Australian tree species in South Africa. The results of some long-term studies will be presented which show that considerable progress…
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Thanking Priscilla Blake

CERTIFICATE OF APPRECIATION FOR PRISCILLA BLAKE This huge smile from Priscilla tells it all. At long last Priscilla has a small but tangible token of her very substantial gift of Ethel Dixie paintings to Kogelberg Branch. A visit to her new home, a small room in Heritage Manor’s Health Care Centre, found her happy and alert, in fact she was reading Gerald McCann’s Seven Years among the Giants, the giants being Protea cynaroides. (McCann was a forester in the Kogelberg.) It was a signed copy as was her Your Place in the Kogelberg by Tim…
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TALKS PLANNED FOR 2017

Saturday 20 May: Dr Allan Heydorn will speak on “The Rock Lobsters of Tristan da Cunha and Gough Island and how they relate to the perlemoen and kreef poaching in the Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve”. At 18h00 – Nivenia Hall, HPBG. Allan, a diver/scientist, while on an expedition actually looking for diamonds, was the person who first discovered the Tristan rock lobsters on Vema Seamount in 1964. Subsequent publicity (not from Allan) led to “a ruthless international onslaught” on this virgin population of rock lobsters from which it has never recovered. Saturday 17 June: Geologist Dr…
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TALKS PLANNED FOR 2016

Saturday 16 July, our AGM: David Davidson, designer of the SA stand at the Chelsea Flower Show, will talk about his experiences with the exhibit featuring the Kogelberg and Harold Porter. At 17h30 – Nivenia Hall, HPBG. Wine, Glühwein, and  Juice will be served. The Chelsea 2016 team, with David fifth from the left. Saturday 20 August: Dr Christopher Whitehouse of Phillipskop Mountain Reserve near Stanford will speak on the Kniphofia (red-hot pokers). He has just published a book on the genus Kniphofia (copies will be available at R950!). At 18h00 – Nivenia Hall, HPBG.…
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