Tag: plants
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Microforest Open Day
Your chance to experience a Microforest – an urban contribution to creating a native habitat stepping stone in the landscape by planting what was once there. Toowoomba’s Friends of Escarpment Parks invite you to celebrate the success of their Hancock Street Park MICROFOREST at an OPEN DAY Saturday 4th October. What an amazing accomplishment https://fep.org.au/projects/microforest-project/ Join…
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Hancock Street Microforest
The signs are up promoting the Microforest Open Day which will be held on Saturday, 4 October from 10 am to 2 pm. As the project evolved from inception in 2022 to final planting in 2024 and the upcoming celebration the story was recorded by Ann Alcock in a blog. The material from that blog…
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The Escarpment Park Friend – Sep 2025
This issue of the FEP Newsletter has annual reports from each of the parks where volunteers work and a summary of database records of hours worked. Other content includes a brief summary of Greg Spearritt’s presentation about mistletoes at the AGM, details of the upcoming Microforest Open Day, a piece about fungi, accounts of bushland…
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TRC National Tree Day Planting
Location: Black Gully Park 3, Newtown (83A Holberton Street) Best parking at: 1A Clearview Street (signage will be placed on the day) Date: Saturday, 11 October Time: 8:00am – 11:00am Each year, communities across Australia come together to celebrate Planet Ark’s National Tree Day—the country’s largest tree planting and nature care event. Since 1996, this…
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QCC EXPLORE Sep 25
Queensland Conservation Council has published the September issue of its EXPLORE newsletter with this headline: EXPLORE September 2025: ‘horror’ environment report just released, new forest campaign launched, secret fossil fuel deal slammed
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iNaturalist August newsletter
iNaturalist has published its August newsletter.
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FEP Annual General Meeting
The FEP AGM will be held on Saturday, 30 August at 10 am in the Toowoomba City Library Community Rooms, Level 3, 155 Herries Street. We will welcome Greg Spearitt, our guest speaker, who will talk about Condamine Country Plant Group’s book project and also present on Mistletoe species. This will be followed by our President’s,…
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Articles from HOPE
HOPE Australia (Householders’ Options to Protect the Environment Inc) publishes a variety of interesting documents. These two recent HOPE documents may be of interest to FEP members: The articles are attached here for your convenience.
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Weed Spotters Bulletin – Aug 25
Weed Spotters Network Queensland has published its August bulletin. It includes news about which weeds to watch for at this time of year.
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Wildflowers of the Darling Downs
Condamine Country Plant Group now has its new book, Wildflowers of the Darling Downs, available for purchase. It’s a selection of 49 species from across the Downs, each with a brief description and full-colour photograph. It’s available for $15 at www.condaminecountry.com/publications/, and can be posted for a further $5. The full suite of books authored to date by…