Plantings June 2025 - Woodlake Reserve Action Group

Natures Trail and Sensory Garden Planting June-July 2025

WRAG planned a Community event on Saturday June 28^th in conjunction with more planting and mulching. Our local MP for Waite Catherine Hutchesson attended and invited the Deputy Premier Susan Close to visit. Both Catherine and Susan planted a shrub in the garden by the waterway. Also in attendance was the Mayor of Mitcham Heather Holmes-Ross and local Mitcham Councillors Karen Hockley, Darren Kruse and Tom Morrison.

Deputy Premier Susan Close with Mitcham Councillor Tom Morrison, MP For Waite Catherine Hutchesson, Councillors Karen Hockley and Darren Kruse, John and Carole from WRAG

Deputy Premier Susan Close planting a shrub

Catherine Hutchesson helped with planting<br>

The local Rotary Club came with their BBQ to cook sausages for lunch and a Coffee Van manned by Dougie supplied free coffee to volunteers courtesy of Alex from Trilogy Consulting. Employees of Trilogy Consulting helped with planting.

Most of the Nature Trail planting was along the main waterways and included three hundred and ninety indigenous sedges, rushes , grasses, groundcovers, shrubs and small trees for the Nature Trail

Mayor of Mitcham Heather Holmes-Ross with Councillor Karen Hockley<br>

Rain was forecast on Saturday 5th so on Friday 4^th the sensory garden was planted near the gazebo.

Planting continued in the existing butterfly garden on Saturday 12^th July replacing some plants and moving some others.

Volunteers replacing plants if the Butterfly Garden which was planted one year ago

It is wonderful to see the see the plants all in place and now that Mitcham Council have moved the path on the west side of Grand Boulevard it is much easier to walk along the nature trail without getting wet feet.