Summer time changes at Bili Nursery
Bili Nursery will be open Tuesday to Friday, 9 am to 4 pm over summer, ie. no Saturday or Monday trade until March.
For home gardeners, we have a great selection of indigenous plants for sale so do pop in!
Container deposit scheme
Victoria’s CDS has arrived! This means you can now exchange some aluminium, glass, and plastic containers – just check for the 10c refund logo on the container. See here for what can and cannot be exchanged.
To find your nearest collection point, search the interactive map on the CDS Vic website – cdsvic.org.au
You can choose to keep your refund or donate it to an amazing range of charities and community organisations – including Westgate Biodiversity: Bili Nursery & Landcare – Donation Partner ID: C2000009270.
So why not save up all those holiday bottles and containers and donate your refund to help us support a sustainable future.
Progress on the Triangle
We were successful some years ago in having this long strip of land incorporated into the Park. It’s on our boundary with Boeing. The first stage in revegetation was to plant along the fence line. The weedy grass was sprayed out and in October last year our volunteers, including corporate groups, spread mulch then planted.
Here are the ‘befores’ and ‘afters’ with plants growing well. Our aim was to form a windbreak and of course plant native species.
A new lily in stock!
It’s the first time we have propagated these pretty Arthropodium minus – Small Vanilla-lilies – and they have done very well. They are perennial and form tubers which store nutrients for the following growing season. This fragrant vanilla lily flowers from August to December. It prefers a bit of shade and is good in pots.
Right now we have plenty of these in tubestock at the nursery.
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 looking just gorgeous – perfect presents for any occasion.
We chose these species because they flower for long periods and at different times and they are a good mix of trailers, uprights and groundcovers. The pots are lightweight and very good for water retention.
The large pots are $25 and the smaller ones $20. Call in to Bili Nursery at 525 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne to see the full range.
Lobelia pratioides – Poison Lobelia
To 30CM. Loosely matting, suckering dioecious perennial herb. Leaves dull green, toothed oblanceolate to lanceolate. Terminal sprays of blue to mauve flowers Oct to May. Requires wet soils. An attractive plant for a shady garden. Poisonous to stock.
Myriophyllum simulans – Amphibious Water-milfoil
To 40CM. Aquatic or semi-aquatic perennial herb with erect, weak reddish stems, rooting at nodes. Irregular or whorls0f fleshy, narrow to terete leaves. Single reddish male flowers, female reddish fading to white Sept to Mar. Variable species in both habitat and appearance.
Liparophyllum exaltatum – Erect Marsh-flower
To 1.2M. Tufted erect emergent perennial herb. Thick dark green broadly ovate to lanceolate leaves. Yellow 5-petalled flowers Sept to Mar. An excellent water plant for dams and ponds.