Jill Wilson, ICW committee member, says the residents’ association jumped at the chance to put planter boxes around Courtenay precinct. The group reached out to their community for garden volunteers to keep the space beautiful, but say to contact them if you're interested in contributing to the initiative.
“It’s a great initiative for everybody, especially as a lot of our volunteers live in inner-city apartments and don’t have gardens of their own,” says Jill.
The owners of the Exchange building, which connects Blair and Allen Street, offered up space to ICW to store their gardening equipment and refill their watering cans.
Extending the community aspect of the project, Jill and ICW also reached out to the Tory Street Bunnings team for a community activities grant to get more plants and gardening supplies.
“We’re super grateful to Bunnings for donating their funds and time to this project,” says Jill.
"We had some beautiful plants donated from Council's Berhampore nursery, but we were also able to get additional flowers and plants with our grant.”