Growing Green Webs

SERIES 34 | Episode 08 Clarence meets Geoffrey Doret, an ecologist working with the local council to grow corridors for native plants and animals. Geoffrey says, “Greenweb recognizes the need to incorporate the entire landscape, which includes both private and public land, and you can see these corridors, all these areas here are actually private properties, but most of it is still intact remnant vegetation.” Securing volunteers from the local neighbourhood to help with restoration works, Geoffrey says, “through gardening, they can get rid of all those environmental and bushland weeds and replace it with native plants that we propagate at our nursery that are indigenous to the Sutherland shire.” Alongside Geoffrey is horticulturalist Cris Breitenbach and a volunteer base producing 100,000 tube stock annually. we didn’t really know what was ahead of us.” Kent and Amanda stabilized the slope with jute and mulch, then planted rushes, lomandras, gymea lily and old man banksia. Pretty much everything you see is local species from the council nursery.” Geoffrey says, “one of the first things I say is, don’t panic. Featured Plants GYMEA LILY Doryanthes excelsa OLD MAN BANKSIA Banksia serrata SPINY-HEADED MAT-RUSH Lomandra longifolia Filmed on Dharawal Country | Grays Point, NSW