LIFE SUPPORT
1,300m2 of ex-pastoral land on Bunurong Country is being lovingly regenerated and revegetated with endemic rushes, sedges, grasses, shrubs and trees, creating a multi-species home for all the locals and connecting up with greater bio-links.
Landscape surfaces, elements and plantings are designed to slow-the-flow, enhance on-site water retention, improve moisture absorption, and create habitat for insects, amphibians, birds and marsupials.
Invasive species are weeded out to create space for remnant orchards and lilies beneath mature eucalyptus canopies, and endemic plant communities are restored with the help of local native nurseries and the local Council’s guide to Indigenous Plants of Bass Coast Shire.
ELEMENTS
- Gullies planted with endemic rushes and sedges to hold and transpire water
- Hardwood sleepers and bush mulch form a permeable, biodegradable driveway
- Discarded sawn logs upcycled into timber steppers and frog platforms
- Open, friendly hardwood fences, permeable to native animal pathways
- Water tank retrofitted with native creepers and tank overflow directed into gullies
- Native grass circular lawn forms sunny clearing
- Upcycled copper and steel bird baths thanks to local craftspeople
- Narrow-leaf Peppermint, Manna Gum, Swamp Gum, Messmate, Sheoak, Banksia
- Tea-tree, Native Broom, Sweet Wattle, Sweet Bursaria, Hop Bitter-pea, Kangaroo Apple
- Hop Goodenia, Saltbush, Correa, Bush Pea, Common Everlasting, Heath, Small Grass-tree
- Tall Sedge, Pale Rush, Weeping Grass, Tussock-grass, Purple-flag, Grass Trigger-plant