Who doesn’t love free stuff? Here’s your chance to get some free plants and free climate-wise gardening advice when the City Renewal Authority holds a flower and plant giveaway in Glebe Park tomorrow, Wednesday 28 February. Stock will be available from 11.30am until supply runs out.
The event will re-home more than a thousand of the seasonal flowers and plants that have brought colour to the City Centre over the warmer months – including marigolds, cosmos apollo and petunias.
It will also provide an opportunity to learn about climate-wise gardening from local landscape architect and founder of The Climate Factory, Edwina Robinson, who will discuss the simple things Canberrans can do to increase resilience to a changing climate.
In a statement from the City Renewal Authority, it said the event reflects its own efforts to use climate-wise landscaping to create a cooler and more attractive City Centre, such as the biodiverse and resilient gardens at the Salthouse Community Centre in Haig Park.
Whether it’s an apartment balcony or larger outdoors space, climate-wise gardens include:
- plants that thrive in our climate and consider sun, shade and water needs, as well as frost tolerance
- plants that provide habitat for native animals, and
- a design that considers water use, ensures rainwater is absorbed into the ground and run-off is minimised.
Attendees will also receive a native seed card highlighting the Canberra Plant Selector, an online tool to help people choose plants that thrive in our local climate.
The tool is part of a broader ACT Government plan to help our city adapt to and protect against extreme heat, rainfall events and bushfires.
The City Renewal Authority said the flower and plant giveaway is about empowering more Canberrans to become climate-wise gardeners and help create a cooler and more sustainable city.
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