Make your garden a safe haven for local fauna
There are many things you can do to make your garden a safe and bountiful place for local wildlife to call home.
Australian native plant species have adaptations that suit them to our particular soil and climate conditions.
This means they require less water and fertiliser to grow well. There is a vast range of native species to suit any area of the garden and create year-round colour with flowering through the seasons.
Their canopies also provide critical shade in our urban environment.
Hard surfaces can be replaced with low growing natives in many non-trafficable areas of the garden to allow water to infiltrate and help reduce the amount of potentially polluted stormwater entering our drainage systems. Other alternatives to impermeable surfaces include crushed gravel, mulch or permable paving.
By reducing the amount of hard surfaces on your property you are helping to:
Attract local wildlife to your garden with bee hotels, nest boxes, water bowls and frog ponds.
Frog ponds are great garden features that can encourage and support more than just frogs and help to control pests and diseases.
Don’t forget the reptiles and little bugs either – get creative with logs and rocks, and use plenty of organic mulch.
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