Fantastic Workshops & Forums coming up We are pleased to announce another in our series of expert workshops here at the Nursery. This time Chris Brodie, Weeds Botanist with the State Herbarium of South Australia will be hosting a workshop on weed identification and setting...
The Nursery has been a hive of activity the last couple of months. As well as hosting a 4 week botanical art course and a plant identification workshop hosted by Neville Bonney we have been moving along with the development of the Display Gardens, organising...
There’s been a lot happening in the Nursery lately, with much seed collecting and propagating going on and the production of the first edition of our nursery newsletter. One of the reasons we have managed to get 2014 off to such a flying start is due...
On Wednesday we were privileged to have Kevin Handreck, one of Australia’s leading horticultural scientists, host a workshop at our nursery. More than 30 keen amateur and professional horticulturalists came from both sides of the border to hear Kevin speak. For me this was a very...
Last Wednesday 6 students completing Certificate 2 & 3 in Horticulture at Mount Gambier TAFE came down with their tutor, Joley Didwell, to find out what the Cross-border Community Nursery Project was all about. [caption id="attachment_4268" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Explaining propagation methods used in the nursery[/caption] All the...
Recently, Nature Glenelg Trust teamed up with the Department of Environment Water & Natural Resources and TAFE Mount Gambier to deliver two advanced seed Workshops led by Neville Bonney. These Workshops were aimed at people who already had a good knowledge of seed collection but wanted...
Recently botanist, Andrea Kodym told me that it was well and truly time to start bagging my heads. Although I was born and raised in Tasmania, that wasn’t what she meant. What Andrea was referring to was the fact that time was running out to bag...
Nature Glenelg Trust would like to invite interested community members to a light supper and launch of the Friends of Cross- Border & Community Nursery on Wednesday 18th December. Commencing at 6:30 pm, the supper and launch will be followed by a Workshop hosted by...
Students from Tension Woods College recently made a great contribution to the development of the Community Nursery Project - Display Garden out the front of the DEWNR building in Mount Gambier. The students who are part of the School's youth environment group helped myself and...
Nature Glenelg Trust together with The Department of Environment Water & Natural Resources is pleased to offer two field based seed collection workshops led by highly experienced seed collector & bush regenerator, Neville Bonney. [caption id="attachment_3886" align="aligncenter" width="224"] Book now for two upcoming seed collection workshops![/caption] These...
