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Honan Scrub: our own “Garden of Eden”
“When God was creating Eden he secretly made another garden called Honan and he didn’t tell anyone about it and that’s what we’re discovering today”. This is how Troy Horn, one of the creators of the new Honan walking trails, summed up the area. Honan Native...Newbery Park students learn about animal tracks and traces
A couple of weeks ago I headed out to Gower Conservation Park, Tantanoola and a nearby biodiversity corridor with Year 3/4 students from Newbery Park Primary School. I met the bus-full of students with their teacher and SSO Angela at the conservation park, where we...Valley Lake Conservation Park Ecosystems Display (Mount Gambier)
This garden was established with the help of volunteers including local home-school students in July 2015. Coastal Plants The South East’s coastal ecosystem is dynamic and diverse. The coastal dunes are inhabited by groundcovers, sedges and grasses, and low shrubs. A groundcover...Upcoming threatened flora translocations just around the corner…
Posted on 23 Jul 2016 at 03:30h
in National Landcare Programme, News, Restoring the Underrepresented Ecological Communities of the South East 1 Comment
We’re still in the midst of planting season, and in the next couple of weeks NGT will be undertaking a translocation of the nationally threatened Avenue Cassinia (Cassinia tegulata) as part of the RUEC project (to follow on from threatened orchid and Trailing Hop-bush translocations we...
Eaglehawk Waterhole Planting Festival wrap up
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...Portland Native Plant Display Garden
The Portland Native Plant Display Garden is a result of a partnership between the Portland Community Garden Landcare Group and Nature Glenelg Trust. You will also find vegetable gardens, a fruit orchard, and community meeting space at the Henry Street site. The garden was planted...Our region goes ‘Nuts about Gums’
Posted on 11 Mar 2016 at 12:59h
in Community Nursery Project, Cross-border Community Events Calendar, Restoring the Underrepresented Ecological Communities of the South East 0 Comments
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...