Community Planting Week

Activities, including a plant giveaway, community planting session and school planting session. These will show how easy and enjoyable it is to enhance our outdoor spaces by planting Indigenous species that fit into small areas and have a big effect on environmental health.

This initiative is one part of our Urban Forest Strategy. Our urban forest is the sum of all trees, understorey, shrubs, ground covers and grasses across the municipality, both public and private. Together, the forest provides shade, stores carbon, provides a home for wildlife, reduces air pollution, captures stormwater and helps mitigate the effects of climate change.

This Strategy is important to our current and future community and we are continually looking for initiatives that will help build the urban forest on Council land, but that will also encourage and support our community to build it on private land as well. We have set an ambitious target of 22.5 per cent canopy cover over the entire municipality by 2040 and we can’t do it without the community’s help.

Plant giveaway

Come and pick up a free plant for your garden. The plants we are giving away include Austral indigo, yellow buttons and native violet, all of which are indigenous plants that help to attract bees and other beneficial insects to your garden and neighbourhood.

Sunday 28 April, various locations:

• Halley Park, Jasper Road, Bentleigh from 9am to 9.45am
• Koornang Park, Koornang Road, Carnegie from 10.15am to 11am
• Hopetoun Gardens, Glen Huntly Road, Elsternwick from 11.30am to 12.15pm

Community planting day

​Join us at Moorleigh Reserve in Bentleigh East for a community planting day to help increase habitat for native fauna in our public open space.

There will be small educational workshop sessions to enjoy, and together we will blanket the south end of the grounds with nearly 2,000 low shrubs, grasses and ground covers including snow daisy-bush, sticky everlasting daisy and red oat grass.

Free event and everyone is welcome. Please wear sturdy footwear, bring gloves and a sun hat if you have them. BYO water bottle.

Saturday 4 May, 10am to 12pm
Moorleigh Reserve, Bentleigh East

Bookings encouraged