This was the third demonstration garden for the Moreton Bay Council initiative to encourage residents to plant verge gardens to create corridors for biodiversity and habitat.
The garden was almost weed free, we pulled out a cobbler's peg plant, so the mulch was doing a good job. The plants were thriving and expanding to cover the area eventually. On the other side of the road an embankment of a continuous line of more mature, shrubby trees largely hid the backs of homes in the housing development behind them from view and cast pleasant shade.
I love this. There’s something quietly radical about verge gardens. Taking back a piece of public space for nature and turning it into habitat and connection. Its feels like such a gentle but powerful form of change. It’s visible, and deeply local, which is often exactly what the big environmental conversation is missing. These “small” interventions are actually how culture shifts.
The garden was almost weed free, we pulled out a cobbler's peg plant, so the mulch was doing a good job. The plants were thriving and expanding to cover the area eventually. On the other side of the road an embankment of a continuous line of more mature, shrubby trees largely hid the backs of homes in the housing development behind them from view and cast pleasant shade.
I love this. There’s something quietly radical about verge gardens. Taking back a piece of public space for nature and turning it into habitat and connection. Its feels like such a gentle but powerful form of change. It’s visible, and deeply local, which is often exactly what the big environmental conversation is missing. These “small” interventions are actually how culture shifts.