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Beyond plants - what else to include?
Description
While plants play a crucial role in attracting wildlife into your indigenous and other types of garden, turning a fleeting visit into a lasting home for local fauna requires more than just greenery. If you want birds to regularly visit, native bees to feed and breed, or want to support lizards, frogs, and fish in your garden, then this Master Class is for you.
In this one-hour online session, Josh and Monique will walk you through essential non-plant elements to incorporate into your garden that provide food, shelter, materials and leisure for our local wildlife. From rocks and pebbles to sticks, logs, ponds, and even bare ground, they’ll explore what types of elements attract different species, the roles that they play and how to strategically place and size them for maximum impact. Join us to learn how to create a more welcoming environment for wildlife in your garden.
This session is part of a three part series called “Nurturing Indigenous Gardens”. Other topics include ‘Ecological Garden Design: Lessons From the Bush’ and ‘Maintaining Indigenous Gardens – Pruning, Trimming, Watering, and Nourishing’. Book the Series Package for discount. Friends of SGA receive a 15% discount on Master Class full price tickets. You can become a Friend of SGA here. Green Garden Professional (GGPs) receive a 30% discount.
What you will learn
- Information on non plant elements to include in their indigenous or wildlife attracting garden
What you will get
- Free access to recording for 2 weeks
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What to wear
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Appropriate for
Gardeners who want to learn more about attracting wildlife and building healthy garden
Sustainable Gardening Australia (SGA) is a not-for-profit non-government organiation dedicated to achieving a healthy biodiverse planet.
Its driving purpose is to:
- Encourage, educate and enable home and professional gardeners to adopt sustainable gardening practices to protect or enhance the natural environment;
- Provide information, education and undertake research about the natural environment;
- Reconnect people to the natural world through gardening; and
- Ensure an understanding of the impacts that gardening decisions about chemical and resource use have on the natural environment well beyond their neighbourhood.
Your Teacher
Josh Lay
As a Melbourne-based horticulturalist and ecologist, Josh has had a lifelong fascination with the natural world, particularly insects and aquatic life. After undertaking a Bachelor of Biological Science at La Trobe University, Josh now works at the Nangak Tamboree Wildlife Sanctuary Indigenous plant nursery, propagating and selling local plants. Outside of work, Josh has a passion for gardening, whether that is vegetable focused or creating habitat for wildlife. He also volunteers with a variety of organisations including Darebin Creek Management Committee, Iramoo Grassland, and Native Fish Australia (NFA). With NFA, Josh co-manages a native fish hatchery to breed endangered native fish species, conducts fish surveys, and hosts public education events.
Monique Burns
Passionate about the plants and animals that call Australia home, Monique completed a BSc at the University of Melbourne before embarking on her Honours year in 2022 investigating urban bee communities at different vegetation types. Since then, Monique has worked a variety of jobs including as an indigneous nursery retail assistant and educator at the Nangak Tamboree Wildlife Sanctuay, and as an educator and coordinator at the not-for-profit Planting Seeds. She has also worked as a research assistant at the University of Melbourne on a range of projects, including the research and maintenance of direct-seeded indigenous meadows. Monique is now based in Dubbo, working as an ecologist with NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service.
Sustainable Gardening Australia has an average rating of 4.6 for their other classes.
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Terms & Conditions
SGA’s Booking Conditions
- Bookings are considered final once payment is made and no refunds will be given for non-attendance.
- If there are insufficient numbers for an event it may be cancelled or postponed by SGA. If this is the case, you will be notified and given the option of either a full refund or a transfer to a different SGA event of equivalent value.
- Please arrive 10 minutes before the scheduled starting time for registration and seating