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Post by BarryRice on Mar 14, 2007 21:14:25 GMT
Greg Bourke has the following announcement of importance!
It gives me great pleasure to announce that the 2008 International Carnivorous Plant Society Conference will be held in Sydney, Australia. The venue chosen is the Royal Botanic Gardens, in the heart of the city, close to many facilities. Since this is the first time this biennial conference has been held in the Southern Hemisphere it was deemed appropriate for it to be held at a time when the carnivorous plants across most of southern Australia would be at their best, and so the conference will be held from the 25nd to the 28th of September. The conference will include a number of lectures and demonstrations, and there will be some optional field trips to the Blue Mountains and Mt Tomah Botanic Gardens, both within 3 hours drive from Sydney. Provisions are also being made for a field trip to see Cephalotus, pygmy sundews and tuberous sundews in South Western Australia for conference attendees able to make it to this part of the country during their stay down under. Stay tuned for further details, and please mark the dates in your diaries; we'd love to see you in Sydney in 2008.
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Post by Jeremiah on Mar 14, 2007 21:22:53 GMT
Calendar has been marked. I will be 21 that Sep 25th what a birthday present that will be. See you all there.
-Jeremiah-
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Post by glider14 on Mar 15, 2007 3:10:11 GMT
ARGH! i wish i could go... sydney though....man.... i wish you all a great time!! Alex
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Post by matti on Mar 15, 2007 8:53:05 GMT
Will be there, work permitting. Sydney is almost a 10 hour drive for me , but some cp mates from up this way are going too (Heath,Dr.Chris), so they can do the driving. ;D Good on Greg (australasian cp society president) for organising this.
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Post by gaduke on Mar 26, 2007 13:31:35 GMT
Wow, always wanted to go there, this would be a good reason to get serious about trying.
Greg
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Post by turkeypig on Jan 8, 2008 0:14:45 GMT
My dad is interested in getting out of Oregon, and would like to know of any extra details or upcoming information about the field trips and the conference.
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Post by locko on Jan 8, 2008 0:22:35 GMT
Do you have to be a member of the ICPS to attend.
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Post by picrophyll on Jan 8, 2008 14:14:39 GMT
Jeremiah
21st Birthday. Well now that could be a very good excuse for a few beers for us and a lot of lemonade for you. I hope you can make the conference and maybe my tour after as it would be great to catch up with you again.
More details of the tour of S.W. Western Australia later when I work out how many places we can visit and how many CP's I can confuse everyone with. Cheers PHill
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Post by Jeremiah on Jan 8, 2008 21:31:38 GMT
Oh me too I sure hope I can make it.
See you later, -Jeremiah-
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Post by greg on Jan 12, 2008 21:49:13 GMT
G'day everyone,
I've finally got on here! Locko, you do not have to be a member of the ICPS to attend (although I suggest you do join the ICPS! Email me for a list of reasons why ;-)) Anyone can attend. There is a fee to attend however, the size of which will be finalised in the coming weeks.
To elaborate a little more on the field trips, the first trip in Sydney will be to the Blue mountains where we will see D. peltata, D. auriculata, D. binata 'Dichotoma Giant', U. uniflora and a few others depending on the season. This location is unique for these carnivorous plants and one of the most spectacular sites for Drosera I have seen. We will then head to Mt Tomah Botanic Gardens to look at an artificial bog garden which utilised over 60 tonnes of coir peat in its construction. This garden contains specimens from all over the world. There will be an opportunity for attendees to explore the gardens further but I doubt many will get far from the bog garden.
We are also looking at adding a visit to the Royal National Park (first National Park in Australia and second in the world) south of Sydney to see a very different habitat for Sydney's carnivorous plants.
On the first of October, those who wish to will head to Western Australia for a week of good times viewing more cps than you can poke a stick at! We will leave Perth on a meandering journy to the south east to see the amazing Albany or Western Australian Pitcher Plant (Cephalotus follicularis) along the way we will see several species of Utricularia including the tuberous U. menziesii and countless species of pygmy and tuberous Drosera including the 3m (9') tall D. erythrogyne. This western Australian tour will be guided by world authorities on the Western Australian species so all your questions about them and more will be answered!
If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact me at sydneycarnivorous@hotmail.com or simply post them here so everyone can benefit from the information.
Kindest Regards Greg
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Post by David Ahrens on Jan 21, 2008 1:08:32 GMT
I have booked the flight already. I arrive on Wednesday 24th Sept and fly back from Sydney on Monday the 6th Oct. It's rather a short stay for Australia but it is all I can afford. I hope that I can see enough of the trip to Western Australia because I won't be there for a full week.
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Post by turkeypig on Feb 5, 2008 23:32:49 GMT
This is what my dear father told me to post: I've got the dates of September 25th to 28th at the Sydney Royal Botanic gardens down but would like to know more about the Perth field trip. Will it take a whole week from Oct 1st or can you just go for a few days? Are the other field trips around Sydney on the 29th and 30th? Cheap flights from Sydney to Perth trips on Qantas are already getting booked up so please post as details solidify. This sounds a great opportunity to see some great plants in a great country! ;D - BobT
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Post by David Ahrens on Mar 2, 2008 10:07:41 GMT
Can somebody tell me why Greg is so slow to reply to postings. He takes about three months to reply to emails. the last post on this forum asked a few questions a month ago. We still have no idea about hotels we can stay at during the conference. I asked over a month ago if it would be alright if I came on the field trip for less than a week, no answer yet. There are only 6 months to go and very little seems to be organised. Yes, I know there is a lot to organise but it is very frustrating if you don't keep people informed of what is going on. Somebody did tell me that Greg is good at this sort of thing and it will be done. I just don't like to organise my main holiday of the year with just a few months to go.
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Post by picrophyll on Mar 2, 2008 13:42:35 GMT
David Please don't think there is problems with Greg being slow to answer. I think Greg's family are wondering who he is as well as the rest of us. His work takes him interstate most weeks and along with the thankless job of trying to put the conference together, I know Greg has found he has learnt his lesson about volunteering for such ventures. I am only trying to organise 6 days tour for about 25 people and this is causing headaches along with the 182 emails in my inbox. If there is anything that concerns you with regards to the conference, please feel free to email me but remember I am 4,000kms away from Greg. Cheers Phill
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Post by David Ahrens on Mar 2, 2008 18:12:57 GMT
I have a great deal of sympathy with Greg, Phill. Organising a conference takes an enormous amount of work and I can fully understand this. The trouble is, I booked my flight tickets 6 months ago and that time has rocketed by already. The conference will be here very shortly and people need to know things like hotels which will be booked up if we are not careful. Shall we book the hotels on our own ? I haven't got a clue who to choose at the moment. From past conferences, people do like to stay in the same hotels. Things like breakfasts can be good if we are in the same hotels. It's all very well saying Greg works all over the place but five minutes on the web answering a few questions isn't going to stress anyone, even if the answer is 'I don't know'. As I said above, I do appreciate the stresses Greg is under, I think that everyone who has taken on the conferences in the past has wished at some stage that they hadn't attempted it. I know that the Lyon conference was causing lots of grief. I would also like to know if I can just book a return flight to Perth on my own. It may be too big a logistics problem for a group booking to get everyone together, which Greg wants to do. I am not trying to sabotage what Greg has done so far but the time is getting close, too close for what I like to do.
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