Geelong Gardens for Wildlife

Geelong Gardens for Wildlife A program dedicated to inspiring the community to improve biodiversity in our urban environment through wildlife friendly garden education and events.

Don't forget.... Closing soon April 30 📣 Have Your Say on this important Draft Plan for Nature, which will set the futu...
13/04/2026

Don't forget.... Closing soon April 30

📣 Have Your Say on this important Draft Plan for Nature, which will set the future direction for biodiversity programs in Greater Geelong for the next 10 years!

If you want to have a chat about the Draft Plan...drop by this Thursday April 16 to Wurrki Nyal (foyer area on the ground level) 137 – 149 Mercer Street, Geelong

👋 Morning session: 9.30am - 11.30am
👋 Afternoon session: 3pm - 5pm

The City is seeking our feedback in the survey, link below. Closing soon April 30

https://yoursay.geelongaustralia.com.au/planfornature

All welcome at our Working Bee! 🌿Keep warm this Sunday, April 12 at South Geelong Train Station, Pollinator Garden.Join ...
08/04/2026

All welcome at our Working Bee! 🌿

Keep warm this Sunday, April 12 at South Geelong Train Station, Pollinator Garden.

Join our fabulous volunteers for an hour of fun, pulling weeds and chatting about all things gardens and plants.

Great opportunity to learn about the plants used in this project especially if you are wanting to start your own verge garden!

Community members are encouraged to attend. Please bring your own gloves and tools.



The Pollinator Garden is our demonstration garden designed to inspire the creation of flowering nature strips that support biodiversity in our urban setting.

https://www.geelongaustralia.com.au/environment/article/item/8dd9867d11755a7.aspx

Geelong gardens for wildlife will be at the One Planet Festival tomorrow. 🌏 The One Planet Festival is a vibrant, commun...
27/03/2026

Geelong gardens for wildlife will be at the One Planet Festival tomorrow.

🌏 The One Planet Festival is a vibrant, community-led celebration of local solutions for a thriving, fair, connected future.

👋 Come say hi, meet our wonderful volunteers, find out more about the program and how you can support wildlife in your neighbourhood. 🌏

Find out more here
https://www.oneplanetfest.com.au/events/one-planet-festival-ocean-grove-2026

Environmental groups who have been campaigning for years are celebrating the announcement that the Australian Pesticides...
15/03/2026

Environmental groups who have been campaigning for years are celebrating the announcement that the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) has declared second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides (SGARs) a restricted chemical product.

This means these commonly available poisons will now only be sold to licensed operators, such as professional pest controllers.
First-generation anticoagulant rodenticides (FGARs) will remain commercially available.

The concern with SGARs is that they persist in the bodies of poisoned rodents and do not break down quickly. This means that any animal that comes along to feed on a poisoned rat or mouse can also be affected.
Anticoagulant rodenticides work by preventing blood from clotting, causing rodents to die from internal or external bleeding, typically 5–10 days after consuming a lethal dose. Nasty stuff!

Unfortunately, native wildlife, including reptiles and birds such as owls and raptors can receive lethal or crippling doses when they consume poisoned rodents.

Wildlife-friendly alternatives 🐦🦎

If you need to manage rats or mice around your home, there are safer options that reduce risk to wildlife:

• The RSPCA recommends reliable and well-designed trap Snap traps which should be checked daily.
• Encourage natural predators such as owls by protecting habitat and installing nest boxes.

🌱 Every wildlife-friendly choice we make in our gardens helps protect our native species.
Photo credit by Mark Broadhurst Pexel

Another fantastic Design Your Own Garden for Wildlife Workshop held last weekend at the National Wool Museum, Geelong! 🌿...
15/03/2026

Another fantastic Design Your Own Garden for Wildlife Workshop held last weekend at the National Wool Museum, Geelong! 🌿🐦

Part of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition celebrations, the workshop brought together a wonderful group of participants keen to learn how to create wildlife-friendly gardens in their own patch.

Led by Geelong Gardens for Wildlife Chair Dr Georgina de Beaujeu and volunteer Bella Scott, with support from our amazing volunteer team, the session was full of great conversations, learning about Indigenous plants, and meeting new friends.

Participants walked away with a garden plan, ready for action!

Thanks to everyone who joined us and brought such energy and enthusiasm!

📸Photo credit: Anita Beaney

Learn more here about Geelong Gardens for Wildlife
https://www.geelongaustralia.com.au/gardensforwildlife/default.aspx

🌱 Alert! Geelong Community Nursery Plant Sale 🌱Until the end of February, you can snap up some amazing plant bargains!🌿 ...
09/02/2026

🌱 Alert! Geelong Community Nursery Plant Sale 🌱

Until the end of February, you can snap up some amazing plant bargains!

🌿 Tube stock: just $1.00 each
🪴 6-inch pots (limited stock): only $5.00 each

Support the fantastic work GenU does while helping the environment 🌏 by planting beautiful local indigenous plants. They’re low water, low maintenance, and perfect for your garden!

📍 Address: 212–216 Swanston Street, South Geelong (opposite Little Creatures)
📞 Phone: 0477 009 913
✉️ Email: [email protected]
🕘 Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30am–3:00pm

We are holding a third ‘Design your own Garden for Wildlife Workshop’ this March as part of the Wildlife Photographer of...
08/02/2026

We are holding a third ‘Design your own Garden for Wildlife Workshop’ this March as part of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Exhibition.

Link to register: https://tickets.geelongaustralia.com.au/event/gardens-for-wildlife-workshop-?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAdGRleAP1Bg9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA8xMjQwMjQ1NzQyODc0MTQAAacLVnK-2E62mFmxqRqaic1Zg76vlNcNsvnorWSUmodPYWLA9kOttgthGx8Ymw_aem_8-LUQg5iT0FvPVN46k83Fg

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Do you want to attract more local wildlife to your garden but not sure how?!

Then this workshop is for you! 🐝

Join Geelong Gardens for Wildlife volunteers at a 3-hour workshop to help you design your own garden for wildlife.

This fun, educational and creative workshop will show you how to apply wildlife gardening principles and develop a native plant list specific to your garden. You will leave the workshop with clear goals to assist in implementing your design, as well as a plant voucher to help you make a start!

WHERE AND WHEN?

Date: Saturday 7th March 2026

Time: 10am to 1pm (3 hours) including morning tea. Please get there at least 15 mins early (9:45) as we need to start at 10am.

Location: National Wool Museum, 26 Moorabool St.

Cost: $20

Spaces are limited!!

We are looking forward to meeting you at the workshop!

🌱 Please note that this is a volunteer run workshop with limited numbers, so please let us know if you are no longer able to attend by emailing [email protected] stw

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from all the folk here at Geelong Gardens for Wildlife!A heartfelt thank you to all o...
22/12/2025

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from all the folk here at Geelong Gardens for Wildlife!

A heartfelt thank you to all our partners this year, Bellarine Catchment Network, Gardens for Wildlife Victoria, the City of Greater Geelong, Barwon Water, Tract Consultancy, genU Community Nursery, and the Pivotonian Cinema for hosting our first fundraiser.

To our wonderful volunteers, who generously give so many hours of their time to keep Geelong Gardens for Wildlife afloat, and of course to our incredible community — the Geelong residents who have enthusiastically embraced the program by booking garden visits, participating in our online community, attending workshops, helping out on planting day at the Pollinator Garden, or attending our fundraiser, thank you.

What a massive year it has been. There is so much to celebrate and much to look forward to.

Geelong Gardens for Wildlife will now be taking a well-deserved break, but we will be back in early February 2026.

Until then, have a safe and restful summer holiday period, and happy habitat gardening!

Photo credit: Sally Di Martino

Garden encounters… A beautiful, cheeky echidna found rummaging for food in the garden of one of our volunteers. It’s alw...
23/11/2025

Garden encounters…

A beautiful, cheeky echidna found rummaging for food in the garden of one of our volunteers. It’s always rewarding seeing hard work pay off and finding visitors using the garden 🌱🦜🐸

Our good friends have asked us to share news of an awesome Plant Sale and Expo coming up.... Thursday 27 November, regis...
10/11/2025

Our good friends have asked us to share news of an awesome Plant Sale and Expo coming up.... Thursday 27 November, registration details below

🌿Connect • Celebrate • Collaborate 🌿

⭐FREE Native Nursery Expo ⭐

Join Corangamite CMA and Melbourne Water to celebrate the Native Nursery sector! This is your chance to connect with passionate nursery staff and volunteers, share knowledge, and strengthen collaboration across our region.

Featuring:
🔥Welcome to Country & Smoking Ceremony by Wadawurrung Traditional Owners
🌿Presentations from nursery experts including:
✔Mike Robinson-Koss
✔Beth Ross – Bellarine Landcare Group Indigenous Plant Nursery
✔Seeding Victoria
(Special guest speaker announced soon!)

🌱Hands-on activities & demos with Alan Carter & Tania Moloney (Founder of Nurture in Nature Australia & author of Nature Ninja Saves the Natural World)

🎤Panel discussion with industry leaders
🤝Networking & outdoor activities
🥗Light finger food provided + cake to celebrate!

Facilitated by Geoff Brown, Tangent Consulting

NATIVE NURSERY EXPO
📅Thursday 27 November
🕐9:30am - 4:00pm
📍Wathaurong Booln Booln Cultural Centre, Grovedale, Geelong
👉Register now: https://www.facebook.com/share/16e4SNBwFU/



This event is proudly supported by the Victorian State Government Victorian Landcare Program.

A big thank-you to everyone who joined our second ever Geelong Gardens for Wildlife Workshop over the weekend, what an e...
10/11/2025

A big thank-you to everyone who joined our second ever Geelong Gardens for Wildlife Workshop over the weekend, what an enjoyable way to spend a wet Saturday morning!

Participants worked through a series of exercises to create their own garden concept plans, uncovering unique opportunities to increase habitat and support local wildlife.

Everyone left with a concept plan, new knowledge, and plenty of resources to kick-start their habitat garden.

Best of all, we had the chance to meet new like-minded people and share our love of gardening and plants!

A heartfelt thank you to our hosts, Georgina and Bella, for their wonderful presentation, and to all our GG4Wildlife volunteers for helping out on the day!

***ONLY 4 SPOTS LEFT**We are so excited to share that we are hosting a second ‘Design your own Garden for Wildlife Works...
26/10/2025

***ONLY 4 SPOTS LEFT**

We are so excited to share that we are hosting a second ‘Design your own Garden for Wildlife Workshop’ after a successful trial in July during Geelong Nature Festival.

We have already sold majority of the spots to those on our Garden Visit waitlist as well as sign ups from the Geelong Sustainability Festival and other events over the past few weeks.. but we still have a few spots remaining so GET IN QUICK!! See the link in our bio to register.

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Do you want to attract more local wildlife to your garden but not sure how?!    

Then this free workshop is for you!  🐝

Join Geelong Gardens for Wildlife volunteers at a 3-hour workshop to help you design your own garden for wildlife.

This fun, educational and creative workshop will show you how to apply wildlife gardening principles and develop a native plant list specific to your garden. You will leave the workshop with clear goals to assist in implementing your design, as well as a plant voucher to help you make a start!  

WHERE AND WHEN?  

Date: Saturday 8th November 2025

Time: 9:30 to 12:30 (3 hours) including morning tea. Please get there at least 15 mins early (9:15) as we need to start at 9:30am

Location: Geelong Botanic Gardens large meeting room

https://events.humanitix.com/design-your-own-garden-for-wildlife-workshop-en59zs6k/tickets

We are looking forward to meeting you at the workshop!

🌱 Please note that this is a volunteer run workshop with limited numbers, so please let us know if you are no longer able to attend by emailing [email protected].

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