Archives: Tree Plantings

The Napoleon-Enfield Landcare group have been very busy this past month planting out 500 trees in the Napoleon district (south of Ballarat). The trees were planted at 6 locations with another 100 earmarked for the Napoleon’s Primary School students to plant on National Tree Day on July 29th.  The group have been very grateful for the support of their […]

  “Friends of Westgate Park has successfully planted 450 trees  at Westgate Park( found right under the Bridge) using volunteers from The Green Jobs Corps. This group forms part of a Commonwealth Government initiative providing training and practical work for young people. The trees will be well maintained by the group (who has an excellent reputation). The re vegetation in Westgate […]

Dear Colleen, Thank you so much to the businesses of Ballarat which has enabled us to obtain beautiful mature trees for planting. A & G Z. The business that is supporting the planting of mature trees is in fact Harrison Funerals (Main Road, Ballarat). For every cremation that takes place, Maree and Brian pay for one mature tree to […]

[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”] With such a wet summer, we have seen trees being planted as late as last month (January). In the Spa Country district near Smeaton, 180 trees were planted at 3 locations.  A third of the trees (60) […]

[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”]  Dear Colleen, Thank you so much for the opportunity to join Fifteen Trees on the greening of our local area. The trees we received through the project were so beautiful, the […]

  A huge thank you needs to be sent to a lot of people without who’s help we couldn’t have planted over 2000 trees this year. The trees were planted in places like Mt Bald, Mt Mercer, Garibaldi and Creswick, Learmonth and Bendigo, West Gate Reserve and Kinglake. The buyers of the trees – our family […]

[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”] Hayden Real Estate have reduced their carbon footprint by organising through Fifteen Trees and Ullina Land-care Group, the planting of 30 trees.  The trees have been planted on private properties in the Broomfield and […]

“Dear Colleen, On behalf of The Friends of Learmonth Community Garden please pass on our grateful thanks to BRACE  for the trees. We will ensure you (and BRACE)  get an invitation to our official launch of the community garden in Autumn 2011! Kind Regards – Liz”. The new Friends of Learmonth Community Garden had a massive working […]

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‘Hi Colleen,  The 300 plants collected from SKINC (St Kilda Indigenous Nursery Co-op) earlier in the month have now been planted in Westgate Park. The plants are all indigenous to the sand belt region of Melbourne and would have been found in the region where Westgate Park now stands prior to European settlement of Melbourne. […]