Welcome to the Keilor Plains Native Plants Group
Our next Monthly Meeting is on
Friday, April 10th, 2026, from 7:30PM
“ANNUAL PLANTS AUCTION”
The Plants Auction is the annual fund rising to cover the cost of running the APS Keilor Plains Group. Members will donate plants they have grown to be auctioned. There will be a variety of Australian plants, some of them are rare.
Meeting Venue
Airport West Uniting Church
72 Roberts Road, Airport West
GPS coordinate: 37°43’29.0″S 144°52’28.4″E.
To become a member of APS Victoria and APS Keilor Plains 2025-2026, click here.
ANPSA Biennial Conference will be held in Alice Springs from 24th to 28th August 2026.
Early Bird Registration (Until July 24th, 2026) is open for the conference.
(To Register, click this link.)
We are a district group of APS Victoria, covering the Keilor Plains area. Our aim is to study, promote, protect and propagate Australian indigenous flora, especially from local area, where many of the species are classified as threatened or vulnerable, because their habitats have been degraded/altered/lost.
Some of our members also grow plants from other part of Australia in their gardens.
The Group was formed in 1972.
The Keilor Plains is on the eastern part of Victorian Volcanic Plains. Further information can be found here.
Visitors are welcome to attend our monthly meeting. Further information can be found in Monthly Meeting Page, or by contacting our secretary.
Monthly Meeting
Upcoming Guest Speakers at our monthly meeting in 2026:
“Native Grasses” | |
“The grasslands of the Victoria Volcanic Plains keep surprising us: new insights about the plants from a well-studied system” | |
| April 10* | Annual Plants Auction |
| May 1 | TBC |
| June 5 | Michael Benham “Alice Spring Desert Park” |
| July 3 | Debbie Reynolds “Pimelea Spinescens” |
| August 7 | Neil Marriott “Flora of the Grampians” |
| September 4 | Plant Table |
| October 9* | Alan Ayton “Tasmania Alpine Flora” |
| November 6 | Katherine Horsfall “Direct seeded Grasslands in Royal Park” |
| December 4 | Christmas Break-up |
Trips
Upcoming Trips
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March 14, 2026: Day Trip to Royal Melbourne Botanic Garden. Meet at main plaza outside Visitor Centre (Birdwood Ave.), 10AM.
October 2 – 5, 2026: Spring Weekend Trip to The Grampians
| Week-end Day Trip 2026 (every second month) |
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| March 14: Royal Botanic Garden, Melbourne May 9: TBC July 11: Prac session on planting up on Alpine Trough October 10: TBC October 17: Bunyip State Park |
| Weekend Trip in Spring 2026 |
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| October 2 – 5: Trip to Grampians, stays at Silverband Lodge in Halls Gap |
| Alpine Trip 2026 |
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| No trip planned for 2026. |
News and Events
APS Keilor Plains Facebook
At our Annual General Meeting on August 1st, 2025, the group has reelected:
Chris as President,
Jodi as Deputy President,
Linda as Secretary, and
elected one new member to the Committee (Alex).
EVENT CALENDAR from APS Victoria
For information on upcoming events (District Group Plant Sale, Seminar and other events), this link will take you to Event Calendar in APS-Victoria Web site.
Books
For enquiries about the books, please contact: kpbook@apskeilorplains.org.au
Our second edition of the book
‘Plants of Melbourne’s Western Plains – A Gardener’s Guide to the Original Flora’
(Only a few copies left)
Now available from local
indigenous nurseries and bookshops!
NEW BOOK:
“Lantern Bushes of Australia; Thomasias & Allied Genera.”
A Field and Horticultural Guide
by Trevor Blake
Editor: Jane Canaway
Publisher: Australian Plants Society – Keilor Plains Group
RRP: $50.00