Friends Of Warrandyte State Park in Warrandyte, Victoria, Australia | Gardener

Friends Of Warrandyte State Park

Locality: Warrandyte, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 408 317 327

Address: Pound Bend Road 3113 Warrandyte, VIC, Australia

Website: http://fowsp.org.au

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25.01.2022 Are you keen to encourage wild pollinators and beneficial insects to your garden and farm? Then check out this upcoming free Webinar. Registrations are essential https://mornpen.zoom.us//tJwrduqoqDkjHN1-0oR-u5WdXc3jj_il2

25.01.2022 Dear Member, We are excited to be able to provide the opportunity for customers to attend the nursery and choose their own plants! Please be aware that we have limited stock and may not have what you need, but we are happy to take orders for next Autumn. The Nursery will be operating with our normal hours of 9.30am-12.30pm. In order for us to trade we need to comply with State Government restrictions and have a COVID Safe Plan in place.... Therefore, our shopping experience at the Nursery will be a little different to the norm, so please be aware of the current trading conditions in order for us to be open. Please enter the nursery via the steps from the bottom car park. You will be greeted by our customer information concierge at the entry, who will collect your name and a contact number for tracing purposes if necessary. There will be a limit of 8 customers at any one time in the retail section. Be prepared to queue and wait if there are already 8 people shopping in the Nursery. A condition of entry is that a mandatory fitted mask be worn by staff and customers. Contactless card payments only at this time, no cash. Please maintain a 1.5m distance between customers and customers and staff at all times. Once you have paid, customers will exit down the western driveway and around to the car park to mitigate congestion at the stair entry way. Thank you all for your patience and we look forward to seeing you over the next few weeks.

24.01.2022 If we don’t do anything else for the environment this year except get ALL our readers to watch; Kiss the Ground (Netflix) we have done a good job. It’s a fascinating movie that will change the way you think about soil.

24.01.2022 So here is why wild freesias are not a good option in Warrandyte and surrounds and infest the bush. They have three survival/reproduction methods. They grow from a bulb-not shown in these photos - but it is quite deep in the soil and difficult to dig up. It also sets viable seed. You can see maturing seed pods on the plants here. But look at this sneaky little bulb attached to the stem at the base of the plant. When you pull the plant out this little bulb falls straight back into the exposed soil and a new freesia grows. No wonder they out perform our beautiful native orchids. We pull them out of the bush at this stage because it slows them down considerably by not letting the goodness from the leaves die back into the bulb. We can destroy the seed and squash the sneaky bulb.

23.01.2022 Now is the time to pull pest grasses out before they set seed. Especially Sweet Vernal.

21.01.2022 Another plant in our what NOT to plant in your garden series and an indigenous alternative. On the left is Ixia a plant that reproduces rapidly and soon becomes problematic particularly in our beautiful bush. On the right is an indigenous alternative; Milkmaid.

20.01.2022 Here are two plants not to be confused with each other. On the left is our native Clematis also known as Old Mans Beard because of the lovely white fluffy flowers it gets all over it. On the right is Vetch a nasty weed a widely distributed scrambling herbaceous plant of the pea family.

18.01.2022 Here is something FOWSPians might be interested in...... https://www.facebook.com/royalsocietyvictoria/live/ https://fb.me/e/2WjHf6u6R

12.01.2022 Here is a very tough one. Don’t get these two grasses mixed up. The one on the left is a weed. The one on the right is a beautiful native called Microlaena stipoides. I’m not good with grasses so I can’t tell you what the baddie is. I just know to pull it up now before it seeds.

08.01.2022 Scotchman’s Hill Action Group has permission from Parks Vic to recommence our works on the Hill. Come and help preserve this fragile patch of native wildflowers Wednesday morning 10-12.

07.01.2022 Don’t mix this up with the nasty oxalis. This is the native variety.

05.01.2022 Plant number 4 of what NOT to put in your garden and suggested alternatives. On the left is Jasminum Polyanthum - Jasmin. On the right are three hardy indigenous alternatives. Top right is native Clematis known as Old Mans Beard. Middle is close up if the Clematis flowers with Hardenbergia violacea hiding in the middle of it. Bottom right is also Hardenbergia violacea but the white version; alba.

03.01.2022 https://facebook.com/events/s/john-paul-memorial-lecture/1017878138652922/?ti=icl