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recalled the Bacchus Marsh Players group in the 70s and 80s. I set up a meeting and put an ad in the paper. We had a few people attend the first meeting, then we held a second meeting and Barry came along.” President of the Bacchus Marsh Arts Council (BMAC), Barry Wilkins, He said as a result of those discussions “we thought maybe what Bacchus said BMAC had developed a strategic plan which included an annual arts Marsh needs is an overarching group that is aware of all the various festival for the community, and was now investigating opportunities for art groups in the area. It made sense to set up and incorporate an arts funding, venues and programs. council.” “An arts festival was one of the strategic outcomes announced in the association’s BMAC was incorporated on May 12, 2014 with a vision that ‘Bacchus Strategic Plan 2014 – 2018 which it officially launched in February this Marsh will become a regional hub of cultural vitality where arts and year,” he said. culture connects community through education, participation and “The next task will be to then match a specific artistic activity to complement a creativity’. particular venue and then to seek to develop a draft time-tabled program, Cr Spain said the main vision was to promote the arts in all its forms in after which specific artists, performers, practitioners, cultural groups and the Bacchus Marsh community and BMAC was “looking at a mid 2016 organisations will be consulted to seek their participation and involvement.” arts festival for Bacchus Marsh”. If anyone can make it happen, Barry can. He has been an active tourism and “We recognise the importance of the arts for the health and wellbeing of arts, business and commerce administrator and festival and special events the community. We (BMAC) are the planners, linkers and facilitators.” consultant, producer and director for almost 50 years. From 1969 to 1992 He said although he wasn’t an artist he was definitely an arts consumer. he was the director and CEO of the Ballarat Begonia Festival Association. “I have been brought up to appreciate the arts. I remember looking In 1992 he was awarded the medal of the Order of Australia in the Australia through an old encyclopaedia with coloured plates and learning about Day Honours for services to tourism, festivals, business and commerce, the the world and how people express themselves and the different interprearts and community. tations of events through the use of art. “Art is a higher expression of human thinking. Art helps our dreams and BMAC treasurer and Moorabool Shire councillor John Spain said the idea ambitions. A community is always enhanced when people get together to form a Bacchus Marsh arts council came about more than a year ago. and exchange ideas and experiences.” “I was chatting to a Bacchus Marsh resident outside the library and he
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By Lisa Comerford with Renee Robinson
tricked them, but they didn’t know how he’d done it. “I’ve used tricks, never to embarrass them, and never confrontational, but in a way to entertain them, make them wonder, laugh and experience joy.” Mark’s signature tricks include card tricks and ‘melting’ rubber band “When I was ten I received a Hanky Panky magic set which was absolutely tricks where the crescendo is borrowing someone’s wedding ring and fascinating. I’d spend hours in my bedroom tricking myself and then began trapping the ring through an intact rubber band. performing magic shows for my family with my little sister Maria as my He has performed all over Australia, on daytime television, radio and in assistant. Japan, the United States and England. Adults are his main audience. “We did the floating lady and these little shows in my family’s room and I’d “I do close up magic tricks to big illusion tricks to a thousand people at be like wait, wait, wait, stop, stop, stop. Don’t look, don’t look, wait a minute a function. I’ve done a lot of corporate functions that have seen me perturnaround, turnaround. I look back on it now and I’m sure they were terrible, form in front of everyone from Eddie McGuire to Richard Pratt. I once but they were so much fun. It must have been hilarious for my parents, performed at a halloween party at Tiffany & Co in Melbourne and Gene uncles and aunties.” Simmons from Kiss asked to see a few close up tricks, so I performed a Mark began saving up his pocket money and sending off for books and few for him and his entourage. magic tricks from Aladdin’s Magic Shop in Melbourne and would eagerly “People love that childlike thrill of knowing what they saw was impossible await the packages in brown paper, tied up with string. but that they did see it. Conflict in the mind of knowing its not possible “Then I discovered my grandma was an assistant in my great uncle’s magic but enjoying that conflict becomes the magic moment.” show during the 30s and 40s in a Vaudeville travelling show.” Mark and his wife Sandra moved to Bacchus Marsh in January this year Mark honed his tricks reading magic book after magic book and by attend- and said they enjoyed being in close proximity to the city but loved the ing magic conventions in Melbourne and Sydney and said Bernard’s Magic magic only a regional town could reveal, such as boxing kangaroos in Shop became his “port of call.” their backyard. He worked as a commercial pilot for Qantas, but all the while magic was He encouraged any budding magicians out there to read books, look at bubbling away in the background. After he sustained an injury which ended the classics and reinterpret and reinvent them to make them your own his aviation career, Mark was discovered by the owners of Dracula’s - the and inject your own personality. Newmans - and hired as a roving magician in cabaret bars and restaurants. After more than 30 years of illusions and magic, Mark has semi-retired As an illusionist Mark was in his element. He said a mind illusionist was from performing but remains hands on as a magic consultant for film someone who created the illusion of mind reading using the principles of and television and as the president of the Australian Society of psychology, direction, misdirection, lying and cheating – magic. Magicians. He said he loved seeing the joy in people’s faces when they knew he’d “I am semi-retired but, like all great artists, I’ll be coming back.”
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The 2014 Bacchus Marsh Rotary Art Show received over 550 entries.
2015 Art Show & Sale June 6, 7 & 8
Art show chairman Peter Shilton said the opening night on Friday, June 5 was a great opportunity to catch up with friends and meet new people. “It really is one of the premier social events in Bacchus Marsh and for only $30,” he said. “A jazz ensemble formed by Rotary members will be playing. We’ve sourced food from local Thai, Chinese, Indian and pizza restaurants and will have plenty of healthy options including fruit and vegetable platters. “Once again we appreciate the assistance given by the local scouts and SES groups, and this year we’ll also be supported by CPNS.” He said the opening night was also a great opportunity to buy “affordable, quality artworks” with all art entries in the show for sale. “We have in excess of 600 entries, of which one third have never entered before, including lots of local entries.” He said this year the art show judge will be Serena Bentley who works as an assistant curator, contemporary art, at the National Gallery of Victoria. Jo Reitze will be a special guest demonstration artist during the three-day art show over the Queen’s Birthday long weekend and she returns to a familiar space. She won the Bacchus Marsh Art Show local artist awards in 1972 and 1973 and the Bacchus Marsh Rotary award in 1980. Her most recent works take inspiration from the garden. In 2005 she commenced Jo Reitze paints your garden and has since completed numerous garden paintings on commission.
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Artist Janice Webster. Photo: Leone Fabre
“This is what gets me out of bed every day and keeps me alive,” she said. “I used to visit the Bacchus Marsh art show and thought the paintings were wonderful and realised the only way to afford one was to make one of my own.” Now people line up to buy her work. Janice has been painting for 30 years and is known for her watercolours of Bacchus Marsh landscapes and buildings. Her list of art prizes is more than two pages long and includes Bacchus Marsh Rotary Art Show local artist awards, Moorabool Shire acquisitive awards and Grow West Landcare acquisitive awards. “I never won any sports prizes but I’ve won many art awards,” she said. “I really started to get serious with my painting in 1987 after winning the local artist award at the Bacchus Marsh Rotary Art Show. “I do mostly Bacchus Marsh scenes in watercolour, but still bounce back and forth between pastel and oil. I learnt in oil, then went to pastel and did a bit of pen and wash in the early days.” Painting local buildings and landscapes is her passion. Some of those buildings are long gone, including the Harvest Home Hotel and the Baptist Church on Bennett Street. “I’ve been in Bacchus Marsh since I was ten-years-old. The buildings were disappearing very fast in those days.
You lose the character of the town when that happens. It was heartbreaking. Thank goodness we have still got the agriculture.” “I am inspired by the challenge of painting. It’s hard work, but I really had to justify my interest otherwise I would be out in the paddock working with the rest of my family.” Janice has learned her craft from some of the best and now teaches her own art classes. “My art teacher was Edward Heffernan. He opened up my eyes to the art world. He was a fantastic teacher. I was tutored by him for four years.”
“The classes I run help me frame my paintings and the other half of my business is selling art supplies. I love to see the achievement of budding artists and sharing my knowledge.” She was instrumental in forming the Bacchus Marsh Society of Artists and was the convenor until 1994. She said the society folded in 1998 in part so the artists could focus on their own work. “Painting is 90 per cent perseverance and 10 per cent talent. It’s about mileage on the brush. You need to do it for love and the joy of it. If you love doing it then it will show in your work.”
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DNHLC mosaic tutor Chris Cocking said: “We were going to have the dedication for the Anna Curry Childcare Centre and have Don Nardella and Catherine King coming to open it. The house was looking a little tired and rundown so we decided we needed to do something to beautify it.” Chris said 11 of her mosaic art students, along with herself and husband Phillip, began the mammoth task of creating eight mosaic bollards, an eight foot tall mosaic dedication plaque and a mosaic table with the inscription ‘A Place for Everyone’. “We started the project over the April school holidays and held two big workshops at my house in my studio.” She said the bollards represented the different user groups of the neighbourhood house, including photography, mosaics, health and an indigenous themed bollard. “What surprised me was that everybody had a different idea of what they wanted to do and created something different. I was so thrilled with everyone; they did a brilliant job. “We have eight bollards up at the moment and another four to come. This is just stage one of the beautifying project and was funded with our own money and materials. What we would like to do is apply for a grant for the next stage. “Everybody was just wonderful and got behind it. It was thrilling to see everybody get involved. I’d do anything for the house, it’s a wonderful place.”
Chris and Phillip Cocking. Photo: Terry Hughes
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students circus skills and performing art skills. I had some pretty amazing kids in grades 5 and 6 who could do things I couldn’t even dream of. It was such an opportunity, they gave me the present of “I’d had my kids and I couldn’t just go to a gym them being amazing. I loved being able to recognise and run on treadmills or ride exercise bikes and go nowhere. I needed interaction. I had a choice to join people’s potential and help them harness that. “Darley Primary School is an amazing school with salsa, pole dancing or the circus. I went to an adult circus class and met amazing people and thankfully so many amazing programs. It has so many volunteers and is a real community-based school.” I had a gymnastics background to support me. I’d This year Jenny began working at the Ballarat forgotten I was flexible. Aquatic Centre as a supervising gymnastics coach. “A whole new world opened up to me. I met phenomenally talented people aged from 16 and 17 “Most of the time I’m doing gymnastics but we up to a lady in her 50s who was just amazing and so have school holiday programs including acrobatic and circus classes. Gymnastics is a performing art. You’re joyful. either giving a show to three judges or an entire auThrough her I met the wider circus community. It’s dience. As a gymnastics coach you are teaching kids such an amazing and loving community. All of a fundamental body movement. People don’t realise sudden I was an accepted member of this commuthey’re learning because it’s fun. nity.” The Darley mother-of-two said because of her gym- “Now I’m laughing every single day. It’s so joyful.” nastics background she began to assist the Kids Play She said when she performed she wasn’t worried Circus School’s coach to train people to do tumbles if people were laughing at her or with her because laughter was the best medicine. and was asked to teach them acrobatic gymnastics. “Performers are just so giving and often they don’t “I started doing birthday parties with them. I knew make a cent or cover their costs. The circus community how to juggle and was showing new people this stuff. I used to do tight-wire walking and juggling at loves their celebratory days. Halloween is huge and we really get into Talk Like a Pirate Day and World the same time. Hoop Day. “The performing troupe I worked with included a “I’m a circus instructor rather than a clown. If I doctor of psychology, a chemical engineer and go to a party then I’m there to teach them circus paediatric surgeon. I believe what draws all of us to skills. There’s so many ways you can juggle and the circus is pure and simple joy. There’s no judgspin a hoop and it’s up to people to learn to adapt ment. The only thing we’re judged on is whether or their skills. I love seeing people I have helped teach not we can bring something to the group, like a bit shine.” of comedy or a trick.” She said the best thing about performing was the She said her children loved telling their class that “joy that you see in the faces of people both performing mum was a clown and that was how she came to run and in the audience.” circus classes at Lara Lake Primary School and then “It’s the fact that people will walk into the circus Darley Primary School. after having a horrible day and as soon as that music “I’d work with the middle school classes and put starts and that performer comes on then they’re together a routine by breaking down their skills, transported to the world that performer has created. building them back up and then choreographing a It gives them time out from themselves. For that routine. I was also working with the scouts and cubs period of time people are somewhere else and that group doing a circus night. place is full of joy. It’s a joy to be in that space with “My circus school was in Geelong and because of them. distance I handed in my resignation last year. In the Jenny Turnham clowning around second half of 2014 I taught Darley Primary School “We’re the authors of that joy.”
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Community diary Bacchus Marsh women’s football 7pm start, Bacchus Marsh RSL Hall, team will hold a Pink Day to raise Main St, Bacchus Marsh. money for breast cancer. Sale of pink cakes, raffle. Entry is gold coin donation. Maddingley Park. Bacchus Marsh Public Hall, 10am - 4pm. Ph: 0414 672 458
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The Bacchus Marsh women’s football team will hold a Pink Day on Sunday, June 14 to raise money to fight breast cancer. The event is at Maddingley Park, where the Lady Cobras will play Kyneton.
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customers are looked after. It’s good personal country service.” He said it was an honour to win the award when there were more than 500 lotto agents across Victoria. Bacchus Marsh Newsagency owner Peter Drever said “We have had the Lotto in the newsagency over the past eight years and have been here for the he knew they’d been nominated for the award, last 12 years.” however it wasn’t until he received a phonecall The VANA 2015 Industry Awards night was suggesting the team attend the awards night on held to acknowledge the best employees, retail, May 23 that he thought they might be in with a lottery newsagents and distributors throughout chance. the industry. “We’re very rapt. Eight of us went, but our two VANA judges said: “Bacchus Marsh Newsagenyoungest staff couldn’t go because it was held at cy is one of the highly regarded Tatts endorsed Crown,” he said. training outlets. Peter not only provides outHe said the award was based on reports written standing training and experience to all trainees by Tattersalls representatives which took into account customer service, mystery shopper but also continues to support them once they results, advertising and marketing campaigns and begin operating their business.” more. Peter said they were presented with a crystal “This is very much a performance based award. I shield and certificate, which were “lovely for believe our friendly service made all the difference. bragging”. Our staff goes out of their way to make sure our
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Moorabool Artists’ Group Network - its Wombat Regional Arts Network’s practising artists’ group. We set it up two years ago as an artists’ dinner - social and business purposes; the common ground was a need to be more financially sustainable - earn more than it cost from our art work. It quickly became a monthly dinner at the Wallace Hotel - 6pm first Wednesday of each month - with guest speakers to improve our professionalism, the public helping us to price work, and three group exhibitions so far. And we enjoy each other’s company which, as a lot of artists work in isolation, and in the quiet moments they can snatch from their ‘other life’ is a big thing.
Wombat Regional Arts Network’s practising artists’ group.. so you need to be a Wombat, which is just a matter of $20 a year for insurance ($30 for a family). Anyone can join Wombat. MAGnet is for the “I want to be commercially successful as an artist, and I am going to give it a go with support from MAGnet” people.
MAGnet is for anyone keen enough to join in. It’s just dinner and working together to exhibit what we create - and supporting those who have solo exhibitions. Most of us are amateurs taking the next small step. Not our role - but Wombat has a 13-year history of running workshops, events, and exhibitions specifically to make creative activity available to everyone. Wombat Regional Arts Network is currently organising ONE DAY workshops for all Moorabooleans in felting, Gamelan, saori weaving, glass bead making, silk painting, welding, silversmithing, wildwood chair making, crochet, fabric making using stabiliser, and a fabric embellishments weekend.
Wombat Regional Arts Network does not judge the quality of artworks, just asks for quality participation. Wombat Regional Arts Network meets every 2nd month, usually 3rd Saturday, and usually in Ballan’s Commercial Hotel - lunch afterwards! Its a formal incorporated body meeting, deciding what to support and how to finance things.
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The final round of applications for seed funding to assist new tourism event development in Moorabool Shire closes soon. The grants are designed to support event organisers to plan and run new tourism events with potential to significantly increasing visitation into Moorabool Shire from outside the region. Successful applicants to this grant program will receive funding support for three consecutive years from the remaining pool of $8,900 per annum. The program aims to foster new activity within the shire to provide tourists with even more reason to visit Moorabool. Applicants need to demonstrate they can provide a matching cash contribution to what they’re applying for as part of the competitive,
Founding member of Writers’ Craft, Jennie Fraine, said the group was all about “allowing yourself to be the writer”. “The pilot group of Writers’ Craft was funded by the Moorabool Shire in Potential applicants are encouraged to discuss their eligibility 2013. In 2014 we had a meeting and decided we would like to keep going with the manager of economic development and marketing, Peter monthly. Forbes, prior to lodging an application. “We’re not workshoppers or a book club. We’re about developing skills and Visit moorabool.vic.gov.au to download the guidelines and an appli- networking with each other and bringing out people’s creativity. “We now have more than 30 people on our email list. All of us are from cation form or contact council on 5366 7100. Moorabool.” Writers’ Craft meet at the Ballan Mechanics Hall on the second Saturday of the month from 2pm – 4pm. merit-based assessment process.
This is the message Moorabool Shire Council’s Early Years and Library Services are sharing with families, with the launch of the Book Bug Babes project. Mums, dads or carers of eight week old babies who attend their eight week Maternal and Child Health appointment will received a special library registration form. When this form is presented at the Lerderderg Library in Bacchus Marsh, or the Ballan Library, you will receive a free Book Bug Babes bag containing a library card for your child, a small board book, and information about other early literacy activities within Moorabool. The project complements the popular Let’s Read Program, which is delivered through Maternal and Child Health at the 4 month, 12 month, 18 month and 3.5 year key ages and stages visits. “Early literacy activities, such as reading to your baby, talking, singing and rhyming, all help to develop your child’s language, and provide opportunities to develop literacy skills that support later learning,” Moorabool Shire mayor Paul Tatchell said. “Babies can be read to from birth, and there are so many good books available for babies. Our local libraries have a wealth of good quality books for families to borrow, and are a great place to visit with young children.” For more information on the program contact Robyn Howarth, Maternal and Child Health Coordinator, on 5366 7100.
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National Sorry Day and National Reconciliation Week National Sorry Day - May 26 National Reconciliation Week - starts May 27 Bacchus Marsh Primary School Principal Ian Wren, Cr Tonia Dudzik and Mrs Melissa Baker, staff and primary school students After a meeting between Melissa Baker and Ian Wren, the Torres Strait Islander Flag was flown for the first time in the school’s history.
The RSL Auxiliary biggest morning tea May 28 The Bacchus Marsh RSL Hall More than 80 people attended to help raise $1029.90 for the Cancer Council of Victoria.
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The planting ceremony was 18 months in the making for Coimadai Avenue of Honour Restoration Association chairman Ken McDonald. Mr McDonald applied for the rare Lone Pine sapling from the Canberra War Memorial in 2013 because they were in short supply. “They have terrible trouble propagating them,” he said. “The term Lone Pine was given to a tree at Plateau 400 at Gallipoli, when all of the other trees covering the ridges were cut to line and cover trenches and only one tree was left standing. “The Lone Pine is the species Pinus Helepensus, or Allepo Pine, and has been grown from several pine cones sent by Lance Corporal Benjamin Charles Smith to his mother in Inverell NSW in 1915. “The seeds were sown 13 years later and two seedlings grew, one of which was presented to the town of Inverell and the second tree was planted at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.” The association also applied through the Coimadai Primary School for a Gallipoli Oak sapling, which was delivered last month.
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Catherine King plants the Lone Pine sapling with Coimadai Primary School captains Leila Budiman and Jordan Spry
About 80 people attended the planting ceremony, including special guests Catherine King MP, Bacchus Marsh RSL president David Childs and senior vice president Ern Dexter, Moorabool Shire councillors and Coimadai Primary School captains Leila Budiman and Jordan Spry.
The trees will be two of 129 planted to form a new Coimadai Avenue of Honour, which will honour the 129 volunteers who served in World War One. An official dedication ceremony of the Coimadai Memorial Park and memorial cairn will take place on June 27 at the Merrimu Reservoir picnic grounds.
Situated behind the Anglican Church on Inglis St, the creative space has been converted from a shed into a purpose built arts and craft room by retired design office manager for automotive and aircraft, David Barnes. Mr Barnes said the art room was an extension of the Ballan Community Friendship Garden. “The arts room was made to fulfill a need when the arts society was disbanded and we had a lot of people upset that their time out on Mondays had disappeared. “We negotiated with the church to let us have that shed, which has fulfilled a need for a space to meet and do their artwork. It’s also a warm, sheltered area for the garden group to meet. “It can be used all year round, is fully insulated, with good natural light for the painters. It will also be accessible to people with wheelchairs or mobility frames.” He said he designed the new art room around donated materials, including a former shop front window, somebody’s unwanted sliding doors, and internal and external colourbond which was swapped for a design he did for a home extension. For more information or to book the space email ballancfg@gmail.com
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The director of What Knot’s picture framing business said he has framed electric guitars, cowboy hats, old Indian arrowheads and even an ancient shepherd’s crook. “We have a computerised mat cutter and do a lot of unusual 3D framing,” he said. Steve and his wife Elaine established What Knot’s in 1989 after Steve began custom making rustic picture moulding. What began as a home garage business has grown into a purpose-built framing factory on Fisken Street with wholesale customers across the country and retail customers from as far away as Echuca and Dandenong. “It’s important that people go away with a positive experience. The bulk of our retail clientele is through word of mouth,” Steve said. “Our experience sets us apart, and also our intention to do stuff that people like.” Steve said often people came to the shop unsure if something could be framed or what colour matting or frames would best complement the painting or photo. “I like the creative side of things and making things that people get enjoyment out of. We’re happy to make suggestions and people seem really pleased with the results.” Steve said What Knot’s was a family owned and run business which still custom-made mouldings on site. What Knot’s has nine staff, including Steve’s son Ben, daughter Rebecca and son-in-law Peter. Over the past three years the business has expanded into printing photos, enlargements, canvases, trophy supplies and engraving. What Knot’s also does all the presentation framing for Cam’s Cause, a philanthropic foundation established in honour of the late Corporal Cameron Baird, a Victoria Cross recipient killed in action in Afghanistan. What Knot’s is open Monday to Friday 8am – 5pm, Saturday 8am – 12pm at 39 Fisken St, Bacchus Marsh. Phone 5367 6278. No job is too unusual for What Knot’s director Steve Hicks. Photo: Leone Fabre
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Environment
Moorabool Environment Group’s Rose De la cruz talks winter, worms and gardening with Jack Frost.
Moorabool Environment Group’s Elle Fox (left) and Rose De la cruz plant a nectar garden
number of hours a year below 7.2 degrees Celcius. The Bureau of Meteorology website (bom.gov.au/climte/data/index.shtml) will give you information on your area and any good book will tell you how many chill hours are needed for various fruit trees (eg. The Australian Fruit and Vegetable Garden published by The Diggers Club). Bare rooted roses, berry canes and strawberries also go in now. Winter vegetables should all be in: broccoli, spinach, broad beans, onions, shallots, silver beet will keep your vitamins up in the cold. Winter lettuce is also good – varieties such as Alpinas, Easala, T Rex and Abago. Gardening with Jack Frost can be a challenge. It’s easy to say don’t plant frost sensitive plants, but we all have some favourites that suffer in the cold and need covering (with frost cloth or any old fabric) on frosty nights. Water expands when it freezes. When water inside plant cells freezes it expands and breaks the cells which kills the plant. Frost tolerant plants have evolved to have something like anti freeze in their cells. It’s worth rugging up one frosty morning and walking around the garden to identify the areas of heaviest frost. Cold air sinks and collects in pockets in low lying areas so don’t plant there! The birds and insects have a tough time during winter – though great news the European wasps will die in the cold! Try to plant some winter flowering nectar plants and keep bird baths filled – they often freeze over and are undrinkable. Enjoy winter flowers and perfume from daphne, wintersweet, viburnums, lilly of the valley and winter flowering wattles. Camillias are budding up and cyclamens are in bloom so it’s a good time to visit nurseries, see what’s in flower and treat yourself to just one more plant! For orchid lovers there are orchid shows in June in Burwood and Geelong. Closer to home, there is the monthly produce swap at the Darley Community Arts Garden in Holts Lane on Saturday 6th June at 1 pm and the MEG Photo Exhibition at the Bacchus Marsh Library – judging, awards and afternoon tea on Sunday, June 7 at 3pm. All welcome.
Under the cold and often frozen earth there is activity and growth. Bulbs are fattening and sending up green shoots, and although deciduous trees and shrubs are dormant or “sleeping” their root systems are busy gathering nutrients in readiness for spring bud burst. Worms never sleep or rest it seems. Working all year round they are the gardener’s best friends, churning through the soil day and night enriching it with their waste/castings and aerating and improving soil structure with their movement. A sign of healthy soil is a worm-filled spade of dark, damp earth. You would have noticed the sad lack of worms during the drought. There are different types of worms which have different uses in our gardens. Naturally occurring earth worms (Gardeners Friend or Cod Worms - Amynthus Sp.) are all through a healthy garden. Then the very fast-eating, fast-digesting worms that work in either a cold compost (not hot compost – heat kills worms) or a worm farm. These species: Tigers (Eisenia Fetida), Reds (Eisenia Andrei) and Indian Blues (PerionixExcavatus/Spenceralia) will chomp through kitchen waste and produce very good compost or “worm juice” from a tap on the worm farm which is liquid turbo charge fertilizer for your garden. You can buy these worms from various places for example CERES, the urban farm in Brunswick ($29 for 500), or online. It’s interesting for the postie to deliver a package of worms to your box! While we are on compost – it’s a good time to clean out the compost, use the soil and start again. There are a million ways to make a good compost but if you stick to the basic recipe of 2/3 brown (dry stuff) and 1/3 green and keep it moist, not wet, it will work. Winter is the time to cut back straggly plants – salvias, daisies, canna lilies - anything that looks messy. It’s also time to prune some trees and roses but pruning is a complex topic and beyond my knowledge. Plant bare rooted fruit and nut trees in winter. As my farmer father used to say – a dead animal at the bottom of the hole gives a tree a good start, but if you haven’t got one handy, some blood and bone will have the same effect. Make sure some soil covers it so the tree roots are not in direct contact with the fertilizer. Cool climate trees need sufficient chilling hours during The next Moorabool Environment Group meeting is Thursday June 25, Bacchus Marsh Library 7:30pm - 9pm. All welcome. the winter in order to mature leaf and fruit buds. Chill time refers to the
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WHERE for ART thou? I loved Cr John Spain’s words that art is a higher form of human thinking. I think all artists must tap into some hidden parts of their brain - a combination of emotion/experience/subconscious/dreams... to create. Words are my creative outlet. I can’t paint, can’t sing, can’t sculpt, can’t play an instrument, can’t dance. Instead I’m an art appreciater. Not one of those incredibly annoying people who try to figure out the existential meaning behind a red square painted on canvas. No, my art barometer is much less refined. If it makes me say “Wow”, then it’s great art in my eyes. Ten years ago this month I had the privilege of visiting museums in Paris while I was catching up with a friend, including The Louvre and The Musee d’Orsay and the Rodin Museum. I said wow a lot! This is what I wrote in a letter to friends: “Yesterday Gabrielle and I went to the Musee d’Orsay to see the French impressionists. I love Monet!!! Always have, but more so now I saw his work in full scale and mere inches from my nose. So hard to resist pressing my face up against them to take in every detail! I love his bridges, his huge picnic in the herb garden, coquolicot (think that’s a red flower of some sort, maybe poppies?) and all his impressions of his garden in Givenchy. So, so beautiful. But I mustn’t forget to mention Van Gogh and Renoir and Cezanne and Manet. How can such great, great art all be in the same place!! So surreal. Of particular interest was Renoir’s painting of Monet himself! It really hammered home what a close knit circle these artists lived in and Gabrielle and I commented on how important it is to have circles for your art, such as our writer’s group. You can just picture these artists hanging out together saying: “So dude, you doing another garden painting, or throwing in a woman in a parasol? Man, that Picasso must be doing some heavy s**t. You checked out his work lately?” I loved Renoir’s paintings of people and Van Gogh’s paintings of Paris in the 19th century. I kind of skimmed past Cezanne because bowls of fruit and bunches of flowers in vases aren’t my thing. But I also loved Camille Pisarro’s work, because he, like Monet, painted a lot of landscapes, and that’s my favourite art of all. Then today Gabrielle and I met for lunch at the Rodin Museum. The sculptures of Auguste Rodin are simply fantastic. I couldn’t get over his use of the hands for expressions.” Now I appreciate art much closer to home. I have one of my neighbour’s pieces on my wall, alongside rural paintings by two artists in Daylesford and Woodend. We have such incredible artistic talent in our own backyard. I’ve had so much fun trying to track down some of them for this edition. After reading their stories I hope you feel as inspired as I do. Scoop
Monet (above) and Rodin’s ‘The Thinker’ (below)
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