Category Archives: Showgrounds Precinct

Community members planting Wildflower Walk

Posted on 08/10/2024 by Mt Gravatt Environment Group

By: Michael Fox A beautiful sunny morning and thirty-three community volunteers gathered to plant two hundred and fifty local natives for the next stage of the Mt Gravatt Showgrounds Wildflower Walk. Christine Dewar, Environmental Scientist, has designed the methodology for … Continue reading →

Posted in Pollinator Link, Showgrounds Precinct, Uncategorized, Wildlife Corridor | Tagged Ann Moran, B4C Bulimba Creek Catchment Coordinating Committee, Bactivate, Butterfly, Christine Dewar, Community, Community nurseries, environment, Environmental Scientist, local natives, mirco-biology, Mt Gravatt Showgrounds, nature, Paten Park Nursery, Pinky Singh LNP, Queensland Herbarium, Regional Ecosystems, rewilding, SOWN Save Our Waterways Now, trees, urban forest | 2 Comments

Ausco Modular Team returns to Showgrounds

Posted on 25/08/2023 by Mt Gravatt Environment Group

By: Michael Fox The Ausco Modular Team loved the event in June when we planted the first stage of the new Wildflower Walk and Pollinator Link habitat to build a wildlife corridor connecting Mt Gravatt Conservation Reserve. This week we … Continue reading →

Posted in Showgrounds Precinct, Wildlife Corridor | Tagged Ausco Modular, Mt Gravatt Showgrounds, Rhinoceros Beetle larvae Xylotrupes gideon, Swamp Paperbarks Melaleuca quinquenervia, Tawny Frogmouth Podargus strigoides, wildflower walk | Leave a comment

Creating a Wildflower Walk

Posted on 03/07/2023 by Mt Gravatt Environment Group

By: Michael Fox It’s a stunning winter morning, everyone has huge smiles. An amazing community team have come together to create a Wildflower Walk. This is the first step in restoring local native species to create a Pollinator Link habitat … Continue reading →

Posted in Mt Gravatt Environment Group, Showgrounds Precinct | Tagged Ausco Modular, Fox Gully Bushcare, Jenny Winckworth, Mt Gravatt Showgrounds, Wildfower Walk | 1 Comment

Pollinator Link at Mt Gravatt Library

Posted on 20/10/2012 by Mt Gravatt Environment Group

By: Michael Fox Pollinator Links: wildlife corridors for urban spaces, was launched in September at our local Mt Gravatt Library. As part of the launch butterflies and birds was the theme for the regular Children’s storytime. Mt Gravatt Environment Group … Continue reading →

Posted in Pollinator Link, Showgrounds Precinct, Wildlife Corridor | Tagged bees, Birds, Bulimba Creek, Butterflies, Edd Cross, Mt Gravatt Girl Guides, Mt Gravatt Library, Pollinator Link | Leave a comment

World Environment Day – Girl Guides Pollinator Link Garden

Posted on 08/06/2012 by Mt Gravatt Environment Group

By Michael Fox Sue Jones and I joined Mt Gravatt Girl Guides for World Environment Day last Tuesday night, to plant our first Pollinator Link garden. (Pollinator Link is a trademark of Mt Gravatt Environment Group) Guide Leader, Lizi Dyrsdale, approached … Continue reading →

Posted in Pollinator Link, Showgrounds Precinct, Wildlife Corridor | Tagged B4C Native Plant Nursery, Common Crow butterflies, Grass Trees Xanthorrhoea johnsonii, Long-tailed Pea-blue, Men's Shed, Mt Gravatt Girl Guides, Oval Woodland Cockroach, Pollinator Link, Ringtail Possum, Running Postman Kennedia rubicunda, Waxflower Vine Hoya australis, World Environment Day | 2 Comments

Clean Up Australia Mt Gravatt 2012

Posted on 08/03/2012 by Mt Gravatt Environment Group

Mt Gravatt Summit Twenty five volunteers, including a team from Queensland Institute of Business Technology (QIBT) and Cr Krista Adams, joined co-ordinator Kersite Olsson at Mt Gravatt Summit for Clean Up Australia last Sunday. The team filled 11 recycle bags … Continue reading →

Posted in MEG Activities, Pollinator Link, Roly Chapman Reserve Bushcare, Showgrounds Precinct | Tagged Clean Up Australia Day, Cr Krista Adams, Girl Guides, Queensland Institute of Business Technology (QIBT) | Leave a comment

Bringing butterflies to your garden

Posted on 20/12/2011 by Mt Gravatt Environment Group

n Living on the edge of Mt Gravatt Reserve we often have butterflies visiting our yard. Today I videoed this Cabbage White Pieris rapae feeding on the Thyme flowers in our rose garden. Michael Braby in Butterflies of Australia describes … Continue reading →

Posted in Bushcare Articles, Pollinator Link, Showgrounds Precinct, Wildlife Corridor, Wildlife of Mt Gravatt Reserve | Tagged Bushcare, Butterfly, Cabbage White Pieris rapae, Mt Gravatt Environment Group, Orchard Swallowtail Papilio aegeus, Pollinator Link, Southside Community News, Wildlife corridor | 1 Comment

Blue Banded Bees and Variegated Fairy Wren

Posted on 09/11/2011 by Mt Gravatt Environment Group

a A Blue Banded Bee – Amegilla cingulata getting nectar from one of our special Bottle Brush Grass Tree – Xanthorrhoea macronema. It is particularly pleasing to photograph my first Blue Banded Bee today because I am currently writing an … Continue reading →