20th anniversary Planet Ark National Tree Day July 2015 SDCN held a community tree planting in conjunction with Parks Victoria at Lysterfield Park and with Yarra Ranges Council at Birdsland Reserve. SDCN members and friends were joined by members of Knox Scouts, Selby Scouts and Upwey Guide Group to plant around 1500 shrubs, trees and ground flora. Members of […]

Winter 2015 After a cooler and more humid summer which saw our nursery plants flourish in the relatively benign conditions, winter time in the Dandenong Ranges is here! Monthly rainfall locally at 35mm is around half of the 60 year average with yearly rainfall to date being reduced from a long term average of around 384 to 300 mm […]

SDCN 2012/13 AGM Members and friends enjoyed the 2012/13 AGM guest speaker and PhD student Sarah McClagan talk about her Southern Brown Bandicoots research in South East Melbourne. Thanks to Lyster Ward Councillor Samantha Dunn for chairing the meeting and election of new committee members. To celebrate the work of the nursery over the last 12 months Cr Dunn […]

Thanks to everyone who came to our planting on Sunday 28 July. Numbers were slightly down on normal, partly due to the march against the Tecoma McDonalds beginning at 12 PM. This year we planted within the Birdsland Environmental Centre precinct. The planting site at the early stages The planting site towards the end. As the number and […]

A very successful Mini Beasts Festival was held on a beautiful sunny Sunday 28 April around the Birdsland Environment Centre and the community nursery. Activities included identifying aquatic invertebrates, the environment in art activities, hearing about platypus and landcare activities by the Southern Dandenongs Landcare Group. Thanks to Gavin Prentice from Yarra Ranges Council, Vicki Boyle from Landcare, […]