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...
Have you ever wondered how to get the most out of your native plant garden? Or wanted to start a native garden, but don't know where to begin? Come along to our upcoming workshop to find out why we should grow local native species, how...
Last Friday, the 13th November 2015, about 20 people from took part in our workshop entitled What's Sleeping in Your Swamp? Attendees came from a wide range of backgrounds, and many groups and organisations were represented including Parks Vic, Glenelg Hopkins Catchment Management Authority, Friends...
One of the roles of our nursery is to conduct research into propagation techniques for species which are generally not available in existing commercial nurseries. Discovering germination cues - "cracking the code" - or other important propagation information, will eventually lead to an increase in the diversity...
Kevin Sparrow of the Australian Plant Society recently sent us a few photos of the Biodiversity Bed his group, together with NGT and the Warrnambool City Council created last year. Despite a few losses, overall the garden is looking good one year on with many...
NGT nursery staff recently headed over to Port Fairy Consolidated School to plant out our final native plant display garden with the school's environmental science students. Different groups of students worked diligently throughout the day on planting and watering duties, and some had such a good...
[caption id="attachment_12530" align="alignright" width="300"] Elegant Spider-orchid (Bryan Haywood)[/caption] Eleven days of intricate and rewarding field work has recently come to an end after four nationally threatened terrestrial orchid species were successfully translocated into 8 sites throughout the South East through the Restoring the Under-represented Ecological Communities...
To say we have had a busy time lately at NGT is a major understatement! The end of financial year rush has extended well into July for NGT with a number of project reports due this month, as well as it being planting time - with a...
One year after the initial site planting, dedicated Portland Community Garden members attended an activity day last Saturday, 18 July. Jobs on the day included planting an additional 450 plants, weeding the beds, and removing guards from established plants. [caption id="attachment_12158" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Volunteers hard at...
