Temperatures recently plummeted as south-eastern Australia experienced a extreme cold snap - but we didn't let the coldest winter blast in fifteen years interrupt our planting day plans! Nine dedicated (and rugged up) staff and volunteers headed out to the site north of Dunkeld to plant...
Join us for an afternoon planting session at the Brady Swamp complex, near Dunkeld this Sunday, 12 July. The day will be a great opportunity to check out the progress on the wetland restoration at this site, whether you are familiar with the site or...
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...
The Society for Growing Australian Plants is holding a Propagation Day on Friday June 26th at 8.00pm at the Mozart Hall in Gilles Street. If you are not based in Warrnambool but are interested in plants, this will be well worth the drive - so don't...
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'...
January 15-17th, 2015 A party of nine made the trek to Eaglehawk Waterhole for a two night working bee campout. On the first night while the weather was calm the crew went out spotlighting for rabbits (out on the sandy hills) throughout the property. Over 25 were seen out...
