The indigenous Acacias in Westgate Park are looking spectacular and it will be a bumper season for flowers, pollen and seeds. At Bili Nursery we propagate 13 species of Acacia; everything from tall forest trees to low shrubs. There is no indigenous genus in Vi...
Category: Pollinators
Clematis microphylla
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&...
Pollinators project findings
You are invited to the final workshops in our Providing for Pollinators project at which RMIT researchers will present the findings.
Pollinators workshop 21 Oct
Interested in being a citizen scientist? Come along to our pollinators workshop and learn to identify insect pollinators then put your knowledge into action at our spring ‘pollinator observatories’ at Westgate Park. This is the sixth in this series...
Luis Mata on pollinators, ABC RN
Hear Luis talking about pollinator insects in the City of Melbourne, the pollinator observatories at Westgate Park, the import role insects play in supporting healthy parklands and why understorey plants are necessary to foster this. ABC Radio National Bluepri...