National Tree Day Success Stories

The two community plantings for this year’s National Tree Day both made an important

contribution to our local environment.

The Coal Point Public School plantings created gardens for the native bees and the community planting at Yural Reserve has helped to protect the remnant foreshore vegetation and raise awareness where the boundaries of the reserve are, so everyone can enjoy this special foreshore place.

At Yarul reserve, 2a Laycock Street, two areas were mulched and bordered with plantings to protect the remnants from mowing and to slow down exotic grass encroachment. One area is obvious at end of the street, the other area is more out of sight on the eastern boundary of the reserve, adjacent to the waterfront house, extending up the slope.

The eastern planting was an opportunity to reclaim the public perception of the reserve boundaries as the waterfront property has recently changed ownership. Encroachment on public reserves is something the landcare group

deals with quite regularly. With Yarul reserve being so small, highlighting the full extent of the reserve means that people can sit or play on the shady flat grassed area, swing on the swing and walk down the track with the knowledge that they are on public land.

The eastern boundary ‘landscape features’ including, garden bed, paving, concrete slabs and retaining wall, are actually all within the public reserve. The CPPA has written to council seeking advice on the encroachment and requesting the fence be relocated to be indicative of the reserve boundaries.

There are still plants to go in and mulch to move. If you visit this reserve and would like to assist with the watering of these young seedlings please feel free to water at will.

Thank you to all who came from near and far to make National Tree Day a memorable one.