Over twenty native plant enthusiasts attended last week’s Propagation Workshop in Portland with Kevin Sparrow. During the workshop, which ran for about an hour, Kevin explained his usual method for growing healthy plants from cuttings. One tip that many participants found useful was the suggestion...
Planting season has well and truly begun, with the Community Nursery planting out two of the remaining three native plant display gardens in the recent weeks. On World Environment Day, Friday 5 June, we were joined by an enthusiastic group of home-school students and parents, community...
NGT's Community Nursery is holding a propagation workshop in Portland next week together with Kevin Sparrow. Kevin is a long-term member of the Warrnambool & District Society for Growing Australian Plants and is the author of Plants of the Great South West (available for purchase...
Give Happy, Live Happy Isn't it a great slogan? You may have noticed this catchy catchphrase in the media last week, as organisations all around the country thanked their volunteers during National Volunteer Week. The benefits of volunteering have been well documented; while volunteers increase the...
The Cross-border Community Nursery recently partnered with Natural Resources South East to deliver a professional development workshop to teachers on creating butterfly-attracting gardens. The workshop, held in Naracoorte which was also open to the public, drew attendees from all over the South East as far afield...
Natural Resources South East (NRSE) and NGT staff recently got together for a lunchtime mini working bee to tackle some garden maintenance. The Plants of the South East display garden, at the NRSE office in Mount Gambier, showcases some of the regions most interesting common...
Due to the level of interest in our first butterfly garden workshop last year, we have decided to hold another! This time the event will be held in Naracoorte, with an Upper South East focus. When: Monday 30 March, 4:30pm Where: Naracoorte North Kindergarten Butterfly garden 'starter kits'...
Yvonne and I recently headed over to Portland to have a look at how the Native Plant Display Garden there is progressing. The garden, which was planted in July last year, is in great shape and has been growing like gangbusters thanks to committed volunteers...
On a recent seed collecting outing near Penola, Yvonne spied a seed-filled emu poo, and given the success of the first poo germination trial, quickly gathered it up. The new scat appeared to be full of Flame Heath (Astroloma conostephioides) seed, a plant we know emus...
On a busy day for NGT across our region, last Saturday (the 6th of December) saw our final Community Nursery event for the year taking place, with our Seed Collecting workshop at Eaglehawk Waterhole near Frances in the Upper South East. [caption id="attachment_9270" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Local...
