Knox Council's 100,000 trees challenge

About those trees ...

Council's Vision 2025 document included an aspirational goal for Council and the Community  to plant 100,000 trees per year in public spaces and bush boulevards to enhance and protect Knox's green, leafy image.

The mayor is asking local groups, businesses and schools to work hand-in-hand with the council to achieve this goal.

Autumn 2010 planting ...

The KES will supply the following trees which will be available for only $1 each:-

Acacia implexa (Lightwood Wattle): a long lived, very hardy small tree growing to about 10 metres.

Allocasuarina littoralis (Black Sheoak): an upright small tree with fine foliage growing to about 8 metres.

Bursaria spinosa (Sweet Bursaria): a small tree to about 6 metres with white flowers in summer that provide nectar for butterflies and with prickly branches that provide habitat for birds.

Kunzea ericoides (Burgan): densely foliaged small tree to 5 metres, tolerates wet and dry soils.

Eucalyptus species: these will be chosen by KES to ensure suitability at the planting locations.

 

Ordering trees ...

You will need to order these plants before the end of 2009, preferably before the end of November, so that we will have sufficient trees available for collection in April/May 2010 from the KES community nursery in Ferntree Gully.

 

Click here for an order form, Challenge.pdf.

Print this form and either fax it to 9729 2802 or mail it addressed to "Tree challenge", P.O. Box 336, Boronia, 3155