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 Friends of Royal Park,Buninyong held a 'Permablitz' on Sunday 6th May 2012.

Over 60 people from Ballarat Permaculture Guild, Friends of Royal Park and local residents rallied to help on National Permaculture Day to 'blitz' the old footy oval in Buninyong along side the Community Garden plots.

24 heritage apples, pears, plums and other fruit trees were planted in their own circle or 'guild' of companion plants. This new community orchard should be a blaze of blossom in the Spring. The community garden got a facelift with new mulch paths and a herb garden, complete with curved brick path, now adorns the front of the building. 

(Leigh Catchment Group lent some of the planting tools, which was useful, given the numbers that turned up) 

 National Tree Day Plantings 2012

Venues for plantings 2012

 Crown land next to the Yarrowee river at the end of Glassons Road has been the focus for the Napoleon/Enfield Landcare group for several years now.  

Some of the plantings along the Yarrowwee, near Napoleons- still plenty of riverside left!

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 For the eleventh year in a row, Garibaldi Environment Group has taken up the National Tree Day challenge. 150 more Yarrowee riverside plantings will be going in on the South Durham Bridge reserve.     

Last year's planters and plantings along the track at South Durham Bridge reserve, near Garibaldi

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 Plantings will extend the koala habitat of the Mount Buninyong Walking Trail at Ogilivie Lane.  225 new trees and shrubs,  including the specially grown Aciaia nanodealbata or Dwarf Silver Wattle, a rare tree to this area, went in along along this stretch of trail in 2011.

Work done on the trail last year

..and some of the happy planters

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   Dates for 2012 tree planting dates open to all will be posted very soon