Botany, Conservation, Ecology, Environment

Has Your Garden Escaped workshop

 

Has Your Garden Escaped a Citizen Science Project in the Dandenong Ranges.
Has Your Garden Escaped a Citizen Science Project in the Dandenong Ranges.
Montbretia may look beautiful but it’s a garden escapee and doesn’t belong in the Dandenong Ranges where it acts as a weed and can outcompete our native wildflowers.
Montbretia may look beautiful but it’s a garden escapee and doesn’t belong in the Dandenong Ranges where it acts as a weed and can outcompete our native wildflowers.

What a fantastic morning at our first Has Your Garden Escaped workshop held at the Doongalla Picnic Ground and Reserve.

Local citizen scientists eagerly identified and gathered key data on common garden escapees (exotic weeds) in the Dandenong Ranges National Park.

For more information on this project and how you too can get involved head to our HYGE webpage.