Community

National Tree Day saw 170 locals turn out to turn some soil, pop in a plant and check on last years progeny.

There was enthusiasm-a-plenty for planting the locally grown plants and contributing to the ongoing revegetation of the iconic King Edward Park site. Four hundred trees, 1145 shrubs and 3000 grasses and groundcovers found their roots tenderly tucked into the prepared beds.

Increasingly, property owners are expressing interest in growing native tree species as street trees, park trees, shelter-belt plantings, wildlife habitat zones, riparian restoration corridors, and, occasionally, as farm forestry projects.

There is little regional information available on urban forestry/farm forestry projects incorporating rainforest cabinet timber trees, and land-holders embarking on such a project locally would be pioneering this land use.