Growing Sustainable Gardens

The first Growing Sustainable Gardens Day was held on Nov 12 2005 organised jointly by Clarkefield Landcare, Greening of Riddell (GoR) and Riddells Creek Landcare. It was a great success with a good attendance, lots of useful information available to attendees, a table with examples of many local weeds (hand picked locally that morning) and people brought along weeds for identification - and I think we managed to name all but two!

Then GoR has won a grant on behalf of the three organising groups to develop a substantial weeds brochure focussing on garden escapees and possible alternative plants to replace them with (see right; plus the 2-page weeds brochure that we used as a starting point for this process).

In 2005 we also launched a weed-mapping exercise with a massive (A0-size) map of the Riddell area and individuals adding to it with any known weed infestations they knew about - see the weed map developed from this day.

Eutaxia obovata is a beautiful garden alternative for broom.

FREE BROCHURE - to Riddells Creek and Clarkefield residents

Developed my members of our own community, the 48 page, full colour GROWING SUSTAINABLE GARDENS BROCHURE is free to Riddells Creek and Clarkefield residents.

If you haven't got one you can contact either: Clarkefield & District Farm/Landcare (5428 7623),
Greening of Riddell (5428 6940) or
Riddells Creek Landcare (5428 7546)