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• January General Meeting

  • When
    15 Jan 2026
  •  
    7:30 PM
  • Location
    Mount Waverley Community Centre

  January General Meeting

  7.30 PM* Thursday 15 January 2026

  
  

  Growing Update by Bec Scoble from Floral & Stem Friend or Foe: Sustainable Pest Control Strategies Paul Horne from IMP Technologies

  * The hall will open at 6.30pm for Mid-Week Mini Show exhibitors

  

  Guest Speaker: Paul Horne 

  from Integrated Pest Management Technologies

  
  

  Dr Paul Horne is an entomologist who, since 1996, has run his own company, IPM Technologies P/L, that specializes in Integrated pest management. His company combines biological (insects that eat insect pests), cultural (management techniques to affect or reduce pest numbers) and chemical (insecticides). He talks about selecting products that will kill the pest and not disrupt beneficial insects.

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• 65th Anniversary Luncheon

  • When
    18 Jan 2026
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    11:30 AM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    Young & Jackson, 1 Swanson Street, Melbourne
  • Spaces left
    32

  
  

   

  You’re Invited!

  Chloe has watched over and kept company with artists, poets, wharfies, Prime Ministers and drunks, soldiers, sailors, celebrities, bushies, labourers and art connoisseurs and now the Dahlia Society of Victoria.

  Please join us at Chloe’s Dining Room in Young and Jacksons Hotel as we celebrate 65 wonderful years of Dahlias, friendships and memories. A chance to reconnect, reminisce and enjoy the fellowship created over the past 65 years of the Society.

   

   

  Date: November 30th, 2025

   

  Time: 12:00 PM – 3:30 PM

   

  Price: $65 per person for a delightful two-course lunch
  

  Includes: A complimentary drink on arrival

  Address: 1 Swanston Street  Melbourne

   

  Ample parking at Federation Square Car Park.

   

  Train and tram right to the door. 

   

  We look forward to celebrating with you!

   

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• Introduction to Exhibiting Workshop

  • When
    31 Jan 2026
  •  
    10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    WADHAM HOUSE

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  Introduction to Exhibiting Workshop

  If you have never exhibited or are only a new exhibitor

  this is the workshop for you.
  

  10 AM to 2 PM

  Saturday 31 January 2026

  
  

  Morning: Knowing the different Dahlia types

  Bring a couple of blooms and come along to find out how to distinguish between the different types of dahlias and what sections in the show schedule to enter them into.

  
  

  Afternoon: Staging Practice

  Practice Staging the Blooms in preparation for the show.

  WADHAM HOUSE

  52 Wadham Parade

  Mount Waverley, VIC 314

  

  
  

  The workshop is open to DSV members only and is free.

  
  

  A light Lunch will be provided 

  
  

  RSVP required

  (Click on the button to register.)

  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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