Community Planting Week

Our annual Community Planting Week returns in May — take part in local activities to help make our green spaces healthier and more attractive to local wildlife.  

We know community cares deeply about green, healthy open spaces — and the annual Community Planting Week is one of the ways we bring that care to life together.

This May, we’re inviting residents of all ages to help grow a greener Glen Eira.

From planting native species in our parks to taking home a free plant for your garden, Community Planting Week makes it easy — and enjoyable — to support local biodiversity and strengthen our urban forest.

Every plant added helps create cooler, greener spaces, supports birds and insects, and makes our neighbourhoods more enjoyable places to live.

This initiative is an important part of the work that we do under out Biodiversity Plan and Urban Forest Strategy, to support local native plants and animals and protect and increase our canopy tree cover across Glen Eira. It’s also an important part of our annual Tree Planting Program, which supports us to reach our ambitious target of 22.5 per cent canopy cover over the entire municipality by 2040.

Plant giveaway

Sunday 24 May, 10am–12pm
Caulfield Park, Caulfield — next to 721 Inkerman Road, Caulfield North
Registrations not required. Just come along on the day

Want to increase greenery in your backyard and play a part in helping to strengthen biodiversity in your local neighbourhood? Come along to our Plant Giveaway and pick up a free indigenous shrub, groundcover or lily to plant in your own garden. We’ll be giving away:

Podolepis jaceoides (Showy Podolepis) — a small but showy daisy with a large but delicate yellow flowers.

Stylidium graminifolium (Grass-leaved trigger plant) — a small grass like lily that puts on masses of pink flower spikes throughout Spring.

Pelargonium australe (Austral stork’s bill) — a member of the geranium family with lovely pink flowers that are attractive to butterflies and provide food sources and habitat for small animals and insects throughout the summer.