Lilydale Community Gardens

Lilydale Community Gardens

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Posted 2022-03-09 by Neil Follettfollow
is very community-minded. It is in the main street outside Bunnings.


Most community gardens are on land, usually fenced with individual plots for participants to exercise their green thumbs, usually growing edibles. Lilydale Community Garden is unique in that it on a footpath, has no fencing and no individual plots.


Apart from garden beds, seating is provided including some with chessboard tables.


It is run by the volunteer group and was opened on 1 July 2021 and named Bloom.



To get the good gen on the community garden, I asked many questions to committee member Benson Bannon. His answers are as follows. "We do grow some vegetables but because this is a public area & the beds have limited space, we tend not to grow large vegetables such as pumpkins or tomatoes.

Some of the herbs we are growing are Rosemary, Common Mint, Lemon Balm, Lavender, Vietnamese Mint, Oregano, & Sages.



We also grow bee attracting plants such as a variety of flowers, sweet peas, borage, & we let most plants run to seed to leave the flowers on for as long as possible.


Visitors to the garden are free to pick our herbs & flowers for their dinner or lunch.





There are two wicking beds dedicated to edible Indigenous plants, such as Warrigal Greens.



We have one member visiting Bloom on a rota of one day each week, to water & maintain the wicking beds, pick up rubbish, & chat to interested visitors.


We have an ongoing Open Morning 'Gardener's Coffee & Chat' on the second Sunday of the month from 11.00am to Noon, where we are all there planning, planting, maintaining, & available to chat with visitors who are very welcome to join us.



To raise much-needed funds, we are planning on having a Pot Plant Sale at the Rotary Produce & Craft Market fairly soon.


We write future & on-going events on the chalkboard door of the greenhouse, & post them on our Facebook page.


Our next Lilydale Library Talk, including a Sprouting Alfalfa Demonstration is at 2.00pm on Thursday 21st April 2022. The theme is 'Working to achieve a sustainable organic community garden' & 'Bloom, a streetscape wicking bed garden'. Please book through the Lilydale Library.



%%We will hold Demonstrations again – how to make fragrant Tussie Mussies (rose & herbs posies), making Paper Pot Plant Pots, how to Sprout Seeds (micro-nutrients), & Weaving with Local & Imported Leaves & Fibres, & more, etc.
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We are continuing to work with Yarra Ranges Council, Kinley (the Quarry re-development), & the state government to realise an acre or more of land in Lilydale as an actual community garden. For people to rent allotments, grow produce in community spaces, share activities with various community groups, learn & cook together, plus share abundant produce."

Please like our Facebook page – .
Contact us by email [email protected]

Next time you are passing through Lilydale, stop, grab a take away coffee from nearby outlets and enjoy the community garden.

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