To celebrate National Volunteer Week, we invite you to join us as we acknowledge the hard work of our volunteers!Come along to the Mount Gambier office/nursery open day to meet our staff, see what we do in the nursery, find out what volunteer activities we...
The dry summer and autumn might be contributing to the lowering of the water level at Mt Burr Swamp, but the aquatic life on the swamp is still thriving, with dragonflies and damselflies maintaining good numbers and diversity. A variety of waterfowl are also still hanging around...
If you are, then the final Cross-Border Community Nursery workshop is just right for you! The nursery will be holding a final workshop with very special guest Jenny Guerin from the Botanic Gardens of Adelaide and the South Australian Seed Conservation Centre. Jenny will be sharing...
With the arrival of winter, revegetation plantings have begun around the region with seedlings from NGT's nursery being used in multiple projects. 2017 is the final year of our 20 Million Trees reveg project at Eaglehawk Waterhole, during which we will have planted over 15000 seedlings...
The second NGT update in the latest edition of From the Ground Up (on page 8), gives a snapshot of the varied role of NGT's Community Nursery - from experimental propagation and revegetation techniques, to producing plants that help bolster populations of some of our...
Ryan and I have been working together to keep the nursery ticking along while we work towards the next planting season. We have recently sown a LOT of seeds for various reveg projects, including several grass species. Currently we have the following for sale:Feather-heads (Ptilotus macrocephalus) - now flowering...
After two and a half years of overseeing production in our indigenous plant nursery, nursery manager Yvonne Riley finished up with us last week. Yvonne initially joined the nursery team as an intern in 2013, and took on other roles with NGT such as open...
What better gift could there be than the gift of colour, interest, and diversity? We can help you with this! Native wildflowers make a great addition to any garden, and can even be grown in pots. Pop into the nursery or email Rose () to see what...
Yvonne and I recently made a quick trip to Melbourne to attend part of the 11th Australasian Plant Conservation Conference. We were particularly interested to take part in a field trip to learn about native grass seed production and see if there were any lessons that could be applied to...
A small group of dedicated community members were not deterred by the winter-like weather (13'C, rainy, and windy) on Sunday 13th November, but braved the conditions to venture out to our native butterfly workshop at the Portland Community Garden. The community garden Landcare group had...
