Volunteer Profile – Tanya Prider Tanya is a keen bushwalker and especially enjoys heading over to the Grampians to get out and about. She has been volunteering with us for about a month and has already been involved in a wide variety of nursery tasks such...
Here at the Cross-Border Community Nursery we really appreciate the work done by our fantastic volunteers, who make up our dedicated group of Friends of the Community Nursery. We’d like to periodically use this blog to shine the spotlight on our volunteers and show our...
Over the past two years the Portland Community Garden Landcare Group, local volunteers and the NGT Cross-border Community Nursery Project have put in an amazing amount of thought and effort to landscape an area where they could establish a diverse native garden to share with...
From Rose Thompson - Last Sunday 25 volunteers, thankful for the blue sunny skies, planted more than 1000 grasses, rushes, wildflowers, shrubs and trees at the Native Plant Display Garden in Henty Street, Portland. The indigenous plant garden, which features a wetland area and edible ‘bush...
A second planting day was recently held at the Natural Resources South East (NR-SE) building in Helen Street, Mount Gambier, following the initial planting last year. NR-SE and NGT staff were grateful for the assistance of TAFE SA horticulture students and their lecturer Joley Didwell...
On Thursday May 22, Chris Brodie from the State Herbarium will be visiting the NGT Community Nursery in Mount Gambier for a free weed ID and community herbarium workshop! See the details below, or download a pdf of the event flyer here. [caption id="attachment_4152" align="aligncenter" width="225"] Weed...
Fantastic Workshops & Forums coming up We are pleased to announce another in our series of expert workshops here at the Nursery. This time Chris Brodie, Weeds Botanist with the State Herbarium of South Australia will be hosting a workshop on weed identification and setting...
The Nursery has been a hive of activity the last couple of months. As well as hosting a 4 week botanical art course and a plant identification workshop hosted by Neville Bonney we have been moving along with the development of the Display Gardens, organising...
Hot off the press, the latest newsletter from the Friends of Swan Reserve has just come through from Kevin Sparrow in Warrnambool. In this edition, the NGT Community Nursery Project gets a mention for its support of the Swan Reserve Biodiversity Bed - a display garden...
There’s been a lot happening in the Nursery lately, with much seed collecting and propagating going on and the production of the first edition of our nursery newsletter. One of the reasons we have managed to get 2014 off to such a flying start is due...
