Category: News

Bili Nursery staff have been searching op shops for large glass bowls in which to grow mini wetlands for native aquatics. We now have these wetlands-in-a-bowl on sale and you will be surprised at how beautiful they are. And, by the way, if you have any la...

Get 3 of our best tubestock plants for just $10. March and April are good months to plant and we have excellent stocks of these popular species: We have many more plants on show so visit Bili Nursery and our helpful crew at 525 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourn...

Plants and fungi: a field guide – has gone live! This IOS app will help people identify the plants they see, not just in Westgate Park but around Melbourne and regions of Victoria, together with fungi recorded in the Park in over the last decade. The app...

For over 20 years, volunteers have been looking after Westgate Park – planting, weeding, mulching, cleaning up and general gardening. Our main work days are Mondays and Wednesdays but we have now resumed volunteering in the Park on the third Sunday of ea...

Some of our indigenous plants are grown by cuttings or division but most are propagated from seed. Preparing seeds, or seed cleaning, is a hugely important role in our propagation process. But all it requires is an aptitude for careful and methodical work, gui...

Ubiquitous, unique, fragrant, and dioecious. On any visit to Westgate Park in winter/spring you can’t miss the sweet perfume of this small-leaved Clematis. It can scramble over the ground and climb as high as 3 meters over other plants or rocky outcrops. It&...

The crew from John Holland and Melbourne Water are working in the park on the major task of duplicating the sewer under the Yarra River – a project to be completed in 2024. They took time out this week to see more of the park and to help out with spring ...

Thanks to the Telstra crew for a morning of tough weed-pulling in the Southern Wetlands followed by planting on the steep slopes of the freshwater lake edge and along the steps up the hill. Thanks too to our core volunteers for making it happen. The earth arou...

People often turn a cheek to the saltmarsh, it has rarely captured interest in the same way our forests or flowering heathlands historically have. The slippery sedimentary soils, blaring heat and occasionally offensive odours don’t lure the passer-by, but th...

A warm welcome to Rhod Cunningham who joined the team this week as Manager of our operations. She has a wealth of plant nursery experience, great knowledge of indigenous plant species and seed collection in Greater Melbourne. Rhod has a special interest in aqu...