By creating your ‘Garden for Wildlife' even if is just a few plantings or designating a small corner of your garden you can contribute to bringing nature home by welcoming wildlife to share your garden and by providing a healthy environment for them to do so.
Providing habitat in the garden is not only valuable in itself, it can also link to habitat nearby, providing safe corridors or ‘stepping stones‘ along which animals can move from place to place.
Environment-friendly practices are very important as what you do in your garden can affect other places far beyond your garden boundaries. For instance, watering the garden uses precious water resources. After watering or rainfall, any chemicals used, such as pesticides or excess fertiliser, will run into stormwater drains and eventually end up in the local river or estuary.
Creating a garden to attract birds, frogs, lizards, insects and other animals doesn't have to mean having a messy garden with ‘scraggy' native vegetation. Your garden can be as formal or informal as you wish. You may retain exotic plants you have, or wish to grow, or keep a vegetable garden.
This site has links for local information. A good site for more general information is Backyards for Wildlife in South Australia.
Environment-friendly practices are very important as what you do in your garden can affect other places far beyond your garden boundaries. For instance, watering the garden uses precious water resources. After watering or rainfall, any chemicals used, such as pesticides or excess fertiliser, will run into stormwater drains and eventually end up in the local river or estuary.
Creating a garden to attract birds, frogs, lizards, insects and other animals doesn't have to mean having a messy garden with ‘scraggy' native vegetation. Your garden can be as formal or informal as you wish. You may retain exotic plants you have, or wish to grow, or keep a vegetable garden.
This site has links for local information. A good site for more general information is Backyards for Wildlife in South Australia.
TWO EVENTS coming:
1. ’What about our bit of creek?’
Stroll along upper House Creek to discuss improvements; followed by morning tea.
Sunday 6th Nov 10.30am
Meet at the ‘HERE’ sign on the tree on the path just south of the bridge on Huon Creek Rd
2. Community gardening on Huon Creek; followed by morning tea
Sun 20 Nov from 9.30 am
This will be in place of Friends of Willow Park’s regular monthly community gardening in the park. Meet on the path under the bridge on Yarralumla Drive. Please bring newspapers! Planting tools provided but do bring your favourite tools, fork, wheelbarrow etc. Gloves recommended.
Our creeks are a wildlife corridor between the hills and the Murray River. The Biolinks project will improve the corridor by replacing weeds with native plants to provide food and shelter for wildlife. Native plants will also add colour, fragrance, and help stabilise the banks in floods.
This project encourages and supports community groups to adopt their bit of creek – doing achievable bits that will add up together to make a whole creek of environmental improvement.
More info: Biolinks Project Coordinator Jill (0457 834 892) coordination@friendsofwillowpark.org.au.
A Landcare funded project: by Friends of Willow Park, Parklands Albury Wodonga and Gardens For Wildlife
