Earlier in the month, from Wednesday 15 - Saturday 18 June, NGT staff and volunteers camped out at Eaglehawk Waterhole to get this year's 20 Million Trees planting underway. The first day saw a us packing just under 8000 seedlings and gear into the back...
The Community Nursery has a new product on offer - Native Garden Plant Packs! Each pack consists of 20 native seedlings, grown from wild harvested seed and carefully selected for different parts of the South East of SA, and an information pack on the species...
You may recall a couple of months ago we began experimenting with making seed balls to use in revegetation this year (see previous blog here). Well, seed balls are now being spread out at the ForestrySA restoration site near Glencoe, and we are very interested to...
We’d like to invite you to join us at our upcoming planting festival on Saturday 18 June. Eaglehawk Waterhole is a 1700 acre private nature reserve owned and managed by NGT. The former grazing property will be restored over the years ahead for native wildlife, and we...
For anyone that may have missed our article on our current experimentation with seedballs, below is a copy of the article that appears in the latest edition of From the Ground Up. Please click on the article to enlarge. Enjoy!...
Eucalypt expert, Dean Nicolle, visited the South East last week as guest speaker at our Nuts about Gums events. The public talk Friday night and bushwalk Saturday morning were a combined event for the Community Nursery and Restoring Under-represented Ecological Communities (RUEC) projects. Dean has dedicated...
In May 2014, NGT together with The F Project and Envirofit installed a vertical garden in Ozone Walk, Warrnambool, during the town's Hidden Histories Laneway Festival. The garden is also one of eight native plant display gardens that NGT has installed around the focal region. As...
Dean Nicholle, author of Native Eucalypts of South Australia, will visit Mount Gambier next week to give a talk on the state’s Eucalypts, with a particular focus on South East species on Friday 4th March. The following morning members of the public are invited to stretch...
We recently took our popular native butterfly workshop to South West Victoria, sharing a space with the Australian Plant Society at Warrnambool's Sustainable Living Festival on Saturday 20th February. The presentation took place at Swan Reserve, after Kevin Sparrow took the group on a guided walk...
NGT Nursery staff headed over to Portland recently for a workshop on growing and getting the best out of native plant gardens. Gathering in the Portland Community Garden shed, attendees learnt about the benefits of including indigenous natives in home gardens, before the group headed...
