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  • About us
    • Our vision
      • Our Rules and Purposes
      • Annual Report 2020-2021
    • 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
  • 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
  • Bili Nursery
  • Plant list

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

News and events

Our 2nd night time walk for microbats

Our 2nd night time walk for microbats

21 nest boxes at Westgate Park were monitored on Saturday night by the microbats team. They found spider webs and a few insec...

ACF Macnamara fundraiser for us

ACF Macnamara fundraiser for us

We are very grateful to our good friends, ACF Macnamara who regularly work at Westgate Park. The generosity doesn’t sto...

Help Westgate Park replace stolen equipment!

Help Westgate Park replace stolen equipment!

In the early hours of Sunday 1st October, callous thieves broke into our compound at Westgate Park in Port Melbourne. Then tr...

Tangaroa Blue at Westgate Park

Tangaroa Blue at Westgate Park

On 18 October our friends at Tangaroa Blue visited us to survey and collect litter.  Tangaroa Blue is an Australia-wide not ...

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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

Bili Nursery pitch

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October 2 bird survey

October 2 bird survey

Despite the park still looking in very good condition, the weather on the day was not so favourable for birds as reflected by...

September 4 bird survey

September 4 bird survey

Water levels have risen, with the overall species number obviously high from the survey today and the efforts of several othe...

August 7 bird survey

August 7 bird survey

This survey yielded a higher numerical tally than usual. The several highlights were the return of Black-winged Stilts; a hun...

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Buy a gift voucher from Bili Nursery

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 Mon-Fri, 10-3 Saturday. Volunteer Tue and Wed 9-4pm

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

 

Partners

Melbourne Bushfood | Parks Victoria, Park Managers | 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.

 

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