The Council has recently adopted Nature Strip Landscaping Guidelines, so you can makeover your nature strip with grasses, shrubs, ground covers or even raised planter boxes. We have developed and gathered together the following resources to support you in planning, designing, preparing and planting up your nature strip. Join our Nature Strips Facebook Page Today:
Are you keen to plant your nature strip but don’t know where to start?
It can now be personalised without a permit from Council. It’s easy to makeover your nature strip with plants or planter boxes by following Moonee Valley Council’s Nature Strip Guidelines. They explain what you can and can’t do.
Planting your nature strip adds colour, supports wildlife, cools streets, and reduces mowing and watering.
Click on the link below to check out this MVS one-page summary we have put together to help you get started. Shout out to Emma Cutting from Heartscapes who developed the content for this document. Thanks also goes to Anthony Despotellis for the graphic design and Maribyrnong River and Waterways Association for their advice and support in developing this resource.
MVS wishes to acknowledge Moonee Valley City Council for its financial support through the Biannual Community Grants Program.
Caring for your nature strip garden has many positive flow on effects.
However, there can be some challenges along the way. So, we asked Emma Cutting from Heartscapes to help us identify some of those key challenges and share some of her tips for how to manage them as part of caring for your nature strip garden.
Click on the link below to download a 2 page document, prepared by Emma, to learn more. We are grateful for Emma’s generosity in sharing her knowledge of this growing field of community engagement. Shout out to Anthony Despotellis for the gorgeous graphic design and thanks to Maribyrnong River and Waterways Association for their advice and support in developing this resource.
MVS wishes to acknowledge Moonee Valley City Council for its financial support through the Biannual Community Grants Program.
Moonee Valley City Council have developed guidelines for Nature Strip Landscaping. There are some key things to consider when you are choosing plants and designing your nature strip.
Moonee Valley City Council have produced this amazing resource on wildlife friendly gardening. It is packed full of useful information about what to plant and how to go about the process of transforming your garden and/or nature strip into wildlife friendly environments.
This is a useful 2 page document with a list of plants that are suitable in Moonee Valley area.
Over the past few years MVS has been working with residents to create some showcase nature strips. In this document you will see a selection of showcase gardens that were part of the original Strips of Nature pilot program. Let us know if you’re interested and we can share locations with you so that you can see some successful projects around our streets.
For more information contact Valerie on valerie@mvsustainability.org.au
