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  • Home
  • About us
    • Our vision
      • Our Rules and Purposes
      • Annual Report 2023-2024
      • Annual Report 2022-23
      • Annual Report 2021-22
      • Annual Report 2020-21
    • Our committee
    • Our logo
    • What biodiversity means to us
    • Funding
    • Our history
      • SKINC’s story
      • Westgate Park 1 – Early history of the land
      • Westgate Park 2 – From construction site to neglect
      • Friends of Westgate Park story
  • Bili Nursery
    • Bili Nursery – plant lists
  • Plant info
    • Threatened species
      • Species rare in Melbourne area
    • Wildflowers A – D
    • Wildflowers E – M
    • Wildflowers O – Z
    • Trees and shrubs A – E
    • Trees and shrubs G – P
    • Grasses, sedges and rushes
    • Groundcovers and climbers A-G
    • Groundcovers and climbers H-Z
  • In the Park
    • Plants
      • Coastal headland scrub
      • Coastal saltmarsh
      • Coast Banksia
      • Heathy woodland
      • Plains grassland
      • Plains grassy woodlands
      • Riparian woodland
      • Sand Heathland
      • Sedgy wetlands
    • Birds
      • Bird list – land-based
      • Bird list – wetland-dependent & raptors
    • Bees, beetles & bugs
    • Fungi
      • Fungi list
      • Gilled fungi
      • Bird’s nests, corals, cups, earthstars, jellies, leathers, polypores & resupinate fungi
      • Stinkhorns, Puffballs & Slime moulds
  • Get involved
    • Membership
    • Volunteer
    • Corporate volunteering
    • Subscribe
    • Contact us
  • Find us
  • Support us
    • Donate
    • Make a bequest

Westgate Biodiversity: Bili Nursery & Landcare - We grow and sell indigenous plants, transforming Westgate Park into a biodiverse, bush-like habitat for people to enjoy.

News and events

Microbat monitoring is back

Microbat monitoring is back

You are welcome to join us for the spring Microbats survey after a few months of no activity over winter. We meet at the Barb...

Nature-Fest on the Birrarung

Nature-Fest on the Birrarung

Join us on the Birrarung River Bank in Westgate Park on Sunday, September 15th, from 10am to 3pm!  As part of Riverfest and ...

Acacia time

Acacia time

The indigenous Acacias in Westgate Park are looking spectacular and it will be a bumper season for flowers, pollen and seeds....

Microbat in box!

Microbat in box!

On our walk last Sunday, we were delighted to discover, we think, a Gould’s Wattled Bat (male) in one of our nest boxes...

Bili Nursery

A new lily in stock!

A new lily in stock!

It’s the first time we have propagated these pretty Arthropodium minus – Small Vanilla-lilies – and they ha...

Wildflower combos on sale

Wildflower combos on sale

Ready to go! Our Bili Nursery staff have been growing up these combos – 4 wildflowers in each pot – and they are ...

Rhagodia and Clematis on special $3.50

Rhagodia and Clematis on special $3.50

We have excellent stocks of Rhagodia candolleana – Seaberry Saltbush (a semi-succulent scrambler good for hed...

Gift of nature vouchers

Gift of nature vouchers

Surprise your friends or family with a voucher so they can choose from the many lovely indigenous species we have in stock.

Bird surveys

2 Dec bird survey

2 Dec bird survey

This survey did not obtain the high number of species compared to recent counts, however it was still very satisfactory. Wate...

4 Nov bird survey

4 Nov bird survey

The park is becoming very dry after little or no rain over the last 2-3 weeks, but the water in all the main water bodies –...

7 October bird survey

7 October bird survey

Continuing moderate rains have maintained water levels in both major lakes. On this overcast and windy day, overall numbers w...

9 September bird survey

9 September bird survey

Recent moderate rains have raised water levels in both major lakes. The Powerful Owl recorded in August remained in the park ...

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These make great gifts for friends and family keen to add biodiversity to their garden with native plants

$25 and $50 Gift Vouchers

Indigenous plants - wildflowers

Wildflowers A – D

Wildflowers A – D

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Wildflowers E – M

Wildflowers E – M

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Wildflowers O – Z

Wildflowers O – Z

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Indigenous plants - trees and shrubs, grasses

Trees and shrubs A – E

Trees and shrubs A – E

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Trees and shrubs G – P

Trees and shrubs G – P

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Grasses, sedges and rushes

Grasses, sedges and rushes

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Indigenous plants - groundcovers and climbers, rare and threatened

Groundcovers and climbers A-G

Groundcovers and climbers A-G

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Groundcovers and climbers H-Z

Groundcovers and climbers H-Z

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Threatened species

Threatened species

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Bili Landcare – Westgate Park – Todd Road, Port Melbourne, volunteering Monday and Wednesday

Bili Nursery  – 525 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, open 9-4 pm Monday-Friday, Saturday 10-3 pm. Volunteering Tue 9-4pm and by arrangement

Call 0492 972 652 or email bilinursery@westgatebiodiversity.org.au for more information

 

Partners

ACF Macnamara | Parks Victoria | Port Phillip EcoCentre | Landcare Australia | Conservation Volunteers Australia | City of Port Phillip | City of Melbourne  |  The Heart Gardening Project

Acknowledgements

We acknowledge the Elders and members of the Yalukit Wilam clan of the Boon Wurrung language group, who are the custodians of the land on which we work and meet. We value our ongoing relationship with the Boon Wurrung Foundation. We support the Uluru Statement from the Heart and The Voice.

 

ABN: 36 196 858 709

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Sponsors

National Australia Bank | MIRRAT | Telstra | PWC | Link | Lion | ANZ Bank | IBM | KPMG | Pana Chocolates | Boeing |

Our generous donors

Rotary Albert Park funded vital equipment for the Park compound. Many thanks, Rotary!

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