C. Kairouz Architects are a collective of design professionals, passionate about providing high quality, affordable architecture & interior design solutions throughout Victoria, and Australia. Their focus is on creating better, more socially & environmentally responsible buildings, for today and for the future.

C. Kairouz Architects align their eco-concern focus both inside and outside their workplace/their building ideas, and they have ‘stepped up to the plate’ when it comes to helping us build a better world through the support of our native tree planting projects.

Site A | Yea, VIC | 500 trees

Over the winter months, we planted 500 trees at a revegetation project in Yea district of Murrindindi Shire, VIC on the behalf of C. Kairouz Architects. This is land of the Taungurung and Wurundjeri peoples.

A variety of species is vital to any healthy ecosystem. At this site, native species planted included: Hedge Wattle, Lightwood, Drooping Sheoak, Black Sheoak, Sweet Bursaria, Golden Wattle, Silver Wattle, Red Ironbark, White Box and Yellow Box. These trees are vital to the local wildlife as they will provide a native corridor to provide a safer passage from the creeks in the area to the fragmented outcrops of native vegetation.

Site B | Westgate Park | 500 trees

Westgate Biodiversity includes Bili Nursery & Landcare Inc. and is a community-based not-for-profit organisation based at the foot of one of Melbourne’s most iconic and main transport arterials from the West to the city, Westgate Bridge.

They not only grow and sell locally indigenous plants, but work passionately in transforming Westgate Park into a natural, bush-like place for people to enjoy, and habitat for amazing biodiversity. The team from C. Kairouz Architects who ventured out (20 plus family members) are truly helping with this aim. Despite the hot and windy afternoon, the team managed to plant 80 native trees, shrubs and grasses within a couple of hours. The other 420 plants will go into the ground over the course of  the following days.

Thank you to Georgia from C. Kairouz Architects for finding Fifteen Trees and working with us to support community tree planting projects.

If you are interested in how your business and Fifteen Trees could work together, contact Colleen at <[email protected]> or check out our COMPANY page for more info.

Writer – Lou Ridsdale

Lou is a green thumb, Earth Lover, big-hearted nature freak, plus a savvy media and horticulture expert, who passionately believe that everyone can lead a more nourishing and sustainable life. Her passion for education + communication being the most empowering tool for change is reflected in her setting up her side hustle Hey Hoe Let’s Grow. She also founded Food Is Free Inc., a unique grassroots food security platform specialising in food security education. She fell in love with trees after reading The Magic Faraway Tree as a child.

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