Community Nursery volunteers green the City

Community Nursery Volunteers show off some of the 30,000 seedlings and plants they produced this year. From left to right Doug Lee, Joan Earl, Anna Beyer, Helen Sumpton, Dennis Mills, Leonie Marsh, Gail Taylor, Lorraine Crothers and Darryl McCaw.

The 2020 winter planting season is off to a great start with thousands of seedlings and cuttings produced by the 35 City of Greater Geraldton’s Community Nursery volunteers now taking root in parks, reserves and private gardens across the City region.

Up 7000 plants from last year, the 30,000 plants grown in 2020 mostly filled orders placed by the City of Greater Geraldton’s Parks department and Natural Areas and Coastcare Team along with The Drylands Permaculture Nursery.

This year Nursery volunteers also produced their most advanced and healthiest Geraldton Wax cuttings to date and successfully struck Spotted Eremophila cuttings, which are native to the Chapman River, for the first time ever.

City of Greater Geraldton Mayor Shane Van Styn congratulated the volunteers on another successful year.

“Growing 30,000 plants is an amazing accomplishment,” he said.

“Congratulations to everyone who was involved.

“Thanks to their passion and dedication to greening our City region, our parks, bushland and coastal reserves continue to be revegetated with a wide variety of native species.”

Geraldton Wax ready for planting.

The recently planted community nursery seedlings have been added to the Million Trees Project, pushing the tally to nearly 500,000 trees and shrubs planted since the project began in 2012.

Have you planted one or more trees or shrubs on your property lately?  Make your trees count by registering them on the City’s website towards the Million Trees Project (search Million Trees) and watch the tally grow.