Biodiversity Month Birthday Bush busting Sale at TIN

Trees In Newcastle is celebrating 19 years of regenerating the region next week with a biodiverse birthday bush-busting sale at the 252 Parry St Nursery, Tuesday 9^th -Saturday 13^th September.

"We'll be offering up an abundance of biodiverse beauties at almost giveaway prices to encourage people to put a few local natives in their gardens." Nursery Manager Barb Nanshe said

"Local native plants are tough, they don't need too much extra attention or water, they are also the kind of plants that the local wildlife likes to dip their beaks into for a healthy meal."

"With the local impacts of climate change a big unknown, having a large gene pool of plants surviving in our area is one of the best ways to give the local plant life the best chance it has of adapting to any changes".

Biodiversity Month is all about appreciating the variety of life that holds the key to our future. At TIN, by growing local native plants from seed collected in the bushland of our region we are helping to keep the variety of local plant life in our local area.

"Nineteen years ago a small group of people got together under the common cause of ‘we need more trees in Newcastle', today the catch cry is still the same and we are proudly celebrating all that we have achieved" Manager Gordon Patrick said

"TIN has become so much more than a tree-planting group over the years. We are a volunteer and education centre as well as a nursery and bush regeneration provider"

"We have one of the most sought after bush regeneration teams in the Lower Hunter, we grow over 200,000 local native plants from locally collected seed annually, we have a full time volunteer program and we run community and school education programs"