Flowers power speaker at meet

ORCHID expert Cathy Powers will be guest speaker at the next meeting of the Australian Plants Society Wilson Botanic Park branch.
The meeting will be in the administration building at the park, Princes Highway, Berwick, from 8pm on Tuesday, 14 March.
Ms Powers will discuss Victorian terrestrial orchids, and give a Power Point presentation.
She was born in the United States and moved to Australia with her husband in 1976.
Ms Powers became interested in Australian flora 10 years ago when the couple built their home at the edge of the Brisbane Ranges National Park.
Orchids became her favourite photographic subject after her husband gave her a digital camera.
Ms Powers travels around Victoria with her husband in the hope of finding new orchid species to photograph.
Her challenge is to find different plants, take good photographs and then share them with other orchid lovers.
She and her husband survived the recent Brisbane Ranges fires, which came within two kilometres of their home.
The Brisbane Ranges look sad at the moment, but Ms Powers is sure they will recover.
Plant society branch secretary Joy Buck said everyone was welcome to the meeting and supper would be served after Ms Powers’ talk.