Sweet Treats! Native Plants for Everyday Cooking, Guided Walk
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Thu 27 Feb 2025
Have a berry good time with this sweet date
Have a berry good time! Image: www.eventbrite.com.au
Located in Tanawha on the Sunshine Coast, the magnificent Maroochy Regional Bushland Botanic Garden is a haven for local plants and animals. The Australian bush provides a wealth of edible native plants that can add delicious flavours, smells and nutrition to your home cooking.
Austromyrtus Dulcis - MIDYIM - Occurring in sandy coastal areas of Northern NSW and Southern QLD, this small shrub produces pretty white flowers in spring and summer. These are followed by edible, mauve white speckled berries which are quite delicious.
Midyim - Image: www.thebribieislander.com.au
Connect with nature in the heart of Kabi Kabi Country and come along to the Maroochy Regional Bushland Botanic Garden for a relaxing guided walk to explore sweet treats, amazingly delicious native plants that one can utilise in everyday cooking. Discover the natives that you can grow in your own backyard and how to incorporate them into your home cooking on the
Sweet Treats! Native Plants for Everyday Cooking, Guided Walk. Learn what to eat or not to eat ...
Freycinetia Scandens - CREEK SANDPAPERS FIG - Bright red fruit resembling strawberries that ripens in winter. It is eaten raw.
Creek Sandpapers Fig - Image: www.thebribieislander.com.au
The Sweet Treats! Native Plants for Everyday Cooking, Guided Walk is suitable for adults and will include walking on both paved and gravel surfaces in the natural bush setting of the Botanic Garden.
Please dress for an outdoor walk, with appropriate clothing and enclosed shoes.
Participants are requested to meet at the entrance to the Arts & Ecology Centre at the Botanic Garden.
Diospyros ferrea - SEA EBONY - Edible, sweet tasting, deep red fruit which ripens in summer.
Sea Ebony - Image: www.thebribieislander.com.au
Date and times: Thursday 27th February 2025, 10.00am to 11.30am
Location: Maroochy Regional Bushland Botanic Garden, Palm Creek Road, Tanawha. Walkers to meet at the Arts & Ecology Centre.
With restricted numbers and tickets only $5, bookings are essential. Tickets will be available from Monday 20th January 2025 at 5.45am. Please follow this link to either purchase your tickets or to set a reminder for the 20th January.
Eugenia reinwardtiana - BEACH CHERRY - The bright red fruit of this small shrub ripens between August and March. It is good to eat, being succulent and sweet - perfect for a Sweet Treats walk.
Beach Cherry - Image: www.thebribieislander.com.au
Please Note: The images in this article have been researched by the writer as local edible plants and may or may not be part of the Sweet Treats guided walk.
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