Our annual Community Planting Week held in May includes a range of local activities to help make our green spaces healthier and more attractive to local wildlife.
Community Planting Week
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.
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.
2026 Community Planting Week recap
At our 2026 Community Planting Day on Sunday 17 May, you helped plant nearly 1800 plants at Packer Park in Carnegie!
We also had around 250 happy residents come and pick up their own native plant at our Plant Giveaway, where we gave out over 1250 native plants and shrubs for people to plant in their own backyard and increase biodiversity in local neighbourhoods.
Thank you for your efforts!
