The Walcha Garden Club turns 70

Vanessa Arundale
Updated September 18 2018 - 11:00pm, first published 1:00pm

In 1948 Mrs Nancy Nivison of ‘Mirani’ asked a group of fellow keen Walcha gardeners if they would like to start a club and the Walcha Horticultural Society was planted. Back then the group consisted of 80 members, and over the years it blossomed into the Walcha Garden Club . Today there are still about 80 members, and while none of them is an original member, 95-year-old patron Gwen Lisle comes pretty close.

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Vanessa Arundale

Vanessa Arundale

Senior Journalist Northern Tablelands and North West

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