The Wheatbelt NRM Healthy Environment team has had a great time over the past three weeks, chatting with the community and providing native plants to enrich local gardens.
This year we met with approximately 200 people from Kellerberrin, Lake Grace, Brookton, Hyden, Northam and surrounds, who were eager to plant waterwise gardens that would attract birds, bees and butterflies. This simple, but vital act, of planting trees and shrubs significantly improves the environment of our region.
By the end of the 2023 events, we had given away close to 3,000 native plants!
One popular species this year was the sea urchin hakea (Hakea petiolaris), likely due to the attractive flowers that literally look like golf-ball sized, peaches and cream coloured sea creatures. Hakea seeds are one of the preferred foods of our threatened black-cockatoos and the flowers attract nectar-eating birds and insects.
For those of you who joined us at free seedling events, we hope you enjoyed getting your seedlings into the ground and that you and your community reap the on-going benefits of having native plants in your lives.
If you would like to know anything more about what we do, including our current Healthy Waterways Project (applicable only to some parts of the Wheatbelt), give us a call on 9670 3100.