Sunday, November 7, 2010

Native plants

Native Plants
Making a better, healthier place.Planting the native flora of Australia is essential for a way of sustainability. Protecting the native plants but helping them thrive as well. Plant sustainability is about maintaining biodiversity and ecological processes, the formation of soils, energy flows and carbon, nutrient and water cycles. It’s about meeting our current needs and expectations while retaining opportunities for future generations to meet theirs.In this way the complex relationship between the social, environmental and economic values we hold for planting native plants can be better understood. We are to plant the native plants to increase our school’s native plants population. Why? Helping the school’s eco system thrive. Part of the school’s criteria is planting so planting native plants is vital.
Plants that are recommended:
Acacia Pycantha – Golden Wattle
Melaleuca Lateritia- Robin Redbreast Bush
Correa Reflexa - Native Fuchsia