Celebrate our Local Australian Plants
Let's mark Australia Day by recognising the subtle beauty of our local native plants and the part they play in building ecosystems. Check out this video of a verge garden in Brisbane...
What a great video from the Keep Sandgate Beautiful Association Inc group showing how verge gardens are good for street trees, and the importance of planting local native plants for biodiversity.
They’ve kept a good clear path for pedestrians to walk through.
Imagine walking through there on your way to school, shops, work, or the train station. Imagine if entire streets were like that.
If you are in Sandgate or the surrounding suburbs, find out about KSBA’s activities and how to join on their website.
To find out more about gardening in this space, see the free articles in our Understanding the Space section.
Understanding the Space
The verges and nature strips of our cities are an obvious place to green our cities with street trees and biodiverse habitat for pollinators and other small wildlife. But take-up has been slow, many councils are yet to develop policies, and disputes derail everyone’s efforts.
Increasing the Impact of Your Group
This group is lucky to have a member who creates professional videos, but there are many ways you can promote your member's verge gardens and your group, depending on the skills and networks of your group members.
We discuss that and other aspects of running collaborative group projects in our Group Project section. This week we are talking about choosing which activities we should do to have a greatest benefit.
High Impact, Low Cost - The Big Easy
We talked about events taking us closer to our shared purpose, a step at a time, inching forward, albeit not in a straight line. This applies to more than events, although choosing events is often where we first practice it. How do we decide which events and which initiatives to do?