Replants.com
Episode: #17 11/8/07
Presenter: Sue McDougall
Have you ever wondered what happens to those gorgeous grass trees and other native plants that are removed from development sites when bush land is cleared to make room for houses or industrial estates? Well replants.com is a company that salvages these plants and they are working on a development in Banksia Grove.
The landscaping in the intra-statement to this suburb is really very unique, it has been undertaken by replants, for joint venture partners the department of housing and works and Banksia Grove Developments.
These grass trees shown on the show are the first stage planting; the understorey plants are yet to go in. replants use salvaged plants in the verges and in their domestic landscape packages. Where it is not possible to rescue whole plants, seeds are collected from the bush before it is cleared. They are then propagated and re planted as tube stock.
Replants.com has gotten involved with kids planting the grass trees and small plants; they also have cultural education and dancing. The kids love the whole package.
Some of the plants are over for or five hundred years old and these are the sort of thing we should be preserving. Bruce Abbott from Replants.com has commented on how much he loves the way that people relate to them as beautiful plants as it also touches on a lot of cultural issues and the way that we relate to the land in general.
Nundjun Djiridjakin commented on the areas along the coast, “where the lakes and that are they are actually really the food bowl for the aboriginal people as the years have gone by, and it was also the food bowl for the dinosaurs when they were down this area so its very much a plant that has got lots of medication in it that is also good for eating.”
By developing Replants.com it has allowed Bruce to really improve the quality of those developments that surround our urban bush land, while considering cultural and community values. But as Sue says, the best thing, you save thousands of grass trees.
Plants are made available for sale on the weekends. So if you would like to get involved whether it is by getting online and contributing to their forum, or buying a grass tree for your garden. Get online to www.replants.com
Presenter: Sue McDougall
Have you ever wondered what happens to those gorgeous grass trees and other native plants that are removed from development sites when bush land is cleared to make room for houses or industrial estates? Well replants.com is a company that salvages these plants and they are working on a development in Banksia Grove.
The landscaping in the intra-statement to this suburb is really very unique, it has been undertaken by replants, for joint venture partners the department of housing and works and Banksia Grove Developments.
These grass trees shown on the show are the first stage planting; the understorey plants are yet to go in. replants use salvaged plants in the verges and in their domestic landscape packages. Where it is not possible to rescue whole plants, seeds are collected from the bush before it is cleared. They are then propagated and re planted as tube stock.
Replants.com has gotten involved with kids planting the grass trees and small plants; they also have cultural education and dancing. The kids love the whole package.
Some of the plants are over for or five hundred years old and these are the sort of thing we should be preserving. Bruce Abbott from Replants.com has commented on how much he loves the way that people relate to them as beautiful plants as it also touches on a lot of cultural issues and the way that we relate to the land in general.
Nundjun Djiridjakin commented on the areas along the coast, “where the lakes and that are they are actually really the food bowl for the aboriginal people as the years have gone by, and it was also the food bowl for the dinosaurs when they were down this area so its very much a plant that has got lots of medication in it that is also good for eating.”
By developing Replants.com it has allowed Bruce to really improve the quality of those developments that surround our urban bush land, while considering cultural and community values. But as Sue says, the best thing, you save thousands of grass trees.
Plants are made available for sale on the weekends. So if you would like to get involved whether it is by getting online and contributing to their forum, or buying a grass tree for your garden. Get online to www.replants.com
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