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ABA Committee List
Members of the committee can be contacted at anytime of
the day or night, via phone or email as listed. We are here to serve the
broader membership of the ABA on any question relating to the cultivation,
conservation and dissemination of bulbous plants and their progeny.
President
Mr Jim Lykos
39 Bland Road,
Springwood NSW 2777
Phone: 02 4751 5663
email to: jimlykos@optusnet.com.au
Vice President
Mr. Stephen Gregg ,
184 Coast Road
Swan WA 6055
email to: chookijay@bigpond.com
Secretary
Mr Ron Redding
416 Booral Road
Hervey Bay QLD 4655
email to: ron_redding@hotmail.com
Treasurer /
Seed Bank Director
Mr. David Sneddon
PO Box 9032
Wyoming, NSW, 2250
AUSTRALIA
Mobile: 0412 599 069
emailto:mrgoldbear@yahoo.com
Public Relations Officer
Mr Shayne Willis
Phone:
email to:shayne@essentialrhythms.com
Journal Editor
Julian Slade
email to: julian_slade@bigpond.com
Public
Officer
Mr Shayne Willis
Phone:
email to:shayne@essentialrhythms.com
ABA
Email Address : www.ausbulbs.org/webmail and support@ausbulbs.org
ABA URL Address : www.ausbulbs.org
ABA Seed Bank
A
seed bank comprising seed of many bulb species and hybrids from donations by
members is distributed each year in Autumn and Spring. This seed is available
to ABA members and non-members.
Members can purchase seed at $1.00 per packet, while the non-members price is
$3.50 per packet. Seed lists and an order form are provided in the Seed Bank page
of
this site.
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The Founding of the ABA
The Australian Bulb association was initially sponsored by a few Australian
bulb enthusiasts and nurseryman, who organised the founding meeting at
Albury-Wodonga during September 2001.
The A.B.A. (Australian Bulb Association) came about as a
result of the study of geophytic (bulbous) plants of Southern America and
South Africa by Dirk Wallace and Daryl Geoghegan over a 5 year period in the
early 1990’s. Growing some 2000+ species during this time, many from seed to
flower, both of them produced bulb lists and started to communicate with
Australian bulb enthusiasts. Having a newsletter as part of our format, it
became evident that many folks wanted to join together, have a Newsletter and
Journal, and receive updates about bulb culture and plant availability, and
develop freindships with other enthusiasts consistent with the formation of
an Association.
ABA Email Forum
At
the inception of the ABA, two email forums were created; the Australian_Bulbs
forum was followed by
a specific forum for the sharing of images of bulbous plants - the AB_Images
forum:
Anyone can freely subscribe to each
of these email
forums in Yahoo Groups; the e-mail addresses are provided below.
Join in and talk about your bulbs too!
Click below to join. Everyone is welcome please feel free to read this forum
extract - the joining URL's are also provided below!
Extract
of members discussion on the Forum
Aust Bulbs Forums
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Australian_Bulbs/
Image Forum
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AB_Images/
The Annual Bulb Journal
of the ABA
An informative Annual Journal is produced for members
who have a journal subscription.The journal contains excellent articles by a
number of members. (Click to see contents pages)
Our aim is to publish interesting and enjoyable bulb information for all
levels of bulb enthusiasts and gardeners. More information about Journal
subscription can be found in the Membership form
Changes to ABA
There
have been a number of changes to the ABA which were negotiated with members.
These include the alteration of the ABA to primarily a members web society
without physical public meetings. We are conducting a couple of virtual
meetings annually via a meetings styled web group.
In addition the Societies name and URL
domain name was changed to reflect that it is a web based society of bulb
growers and bulb fanciers.
The quarterly journal been displaced by a
year book / journal to take its place. These measures are expected to ease
burden on the funding requirements of the society and potentially contribute
to a gradual build up of membership and funds to a stage where it may be
possible to re-consider the societies capacity to widen its membership
activities.
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