Northcote Stationeers

15/08/2026

Finally mown after 12 weeks! Gives us the opportunity to focus on a beautiful range of winter colour and healthy thriving plants and garden beds. An ode to winter and the uplifting effects of a winter garden on those who pass through.

06/07/2026

24/06/2026

Some lovely pops of winter colour in the sunshine at the garden yesterday! Come and take a wander around.

18/05/2026

Mother Nature might be thwarting our attempts at ridding our garden of weeds, but she’s repaying us in spades. The garden is thick and lush and there are pops of pre-winter colour everywhere- even on this gloomy Monday morning.

14/04/2026

The recent rain has brought beautiful green lushness to our garden this autumn. It’s also brought a lot of unwanted weeds especially along the edges of our beds. A group of enthusiastic weeders tacked the removal job on Sunday - resulting in several green bins full of weeds. A successful day in anyone’s assessment. But alas, Mother Nature has other ideas, so we’ll need to be back at it in the near future in order to regain some control.

06/03/2026

Fifteen volunteers participated in our 11th consecutive Clean Up Australia Day, mainly concentrating on some basics of garden maintenance. And with a bit of extra help from Mother Nature, our garden is looking very green and refreshed. There was less rubbish this year, mainly due to our continuous pickup throughout the year, but the cleaning of the agapanthus walk still produced 7 green bins of dead leaf matter. The long triangle gardens got their annual tidy up ….. and the difficult job of cleaning up the gutters in the underpass resulted in a few loads of mulch, a tidier pathway and hopefully less chance of clogging gutters and flooding during a heavy downpour. The walkways on the Hartington side have also had the treatment from the blower vac with finishing broom work, leaving them with a sharp garden defining edge. And finally, we have finished the massive job of mulching the last of the poas.
We all agreed that these are not our favourite jobs, but they are rewarding when finished and you can see a “job well done”.

25/01/2026

A Month of Sundays…….
And what a month it’s been. Our volunteers have been extra busy this month - over the last 4 Sundays in January, sixty six volunteers worked for 231 hours weeding, mulching, watering and generally tidying up the “park” surrounding Northcote Station. Some of our volunteers attended all 4 working bees!! We’ve made the area more accessible, more welcoming, more loved and more prepared for whatever weather is to come. We met neighbours, train travellers, dog walkers, bike riders - many of whom had a smile, a thank you and a thumbs up for our work. Above all , together we enjoy the cameraderie, support and fun that happens when we get together!!! What a group!!!

23/01/2026

A BEAUTIFUL SURPRISE

This formerly battered eucalyptus has rewarded us with these two beautiful flowers. One of our volunteers photographed them this morning. The tree was vandalised several years ago and left to die. Fortunately a neighbour saw the vandalism and called police who arrested the vandal a little later.
We had been trying to save the tree with lots of tlc but it seemed unresponsive.Just as we were about to remove “the remains” we noticed a tiny green shoot so we persisted.
Today is a wonderful thank you and tribute to the species.

18/01/2026

11/01/2026

The Northcote Stationeers have started 2026 on a high note - a month of Sunday working bees. The turnout so far has been fantastic - volunteer numbers in the high teens, aiming to get on top of some of those pesky garden jobs that seem never ending - weeding, mulching and watering, especially after the temperatures we experienced last week. The garden is looking well loved - and that’s because it is. And the cherry on the top - the number of community admirers that stopped today to thank us for our work!!