Saturday night entertainment? Removing louvres from the glasshouse, putting them on the ground and jumping on them to smash them into pieces. Vandalism doesn't just happen on Australia Day.
February 5, 2012
February 2, 2012
The ugly Australian
Social networking is helping to turn beautiful areas of Australia into the most appalling rubbish tips.
This is what the St Kilda Botanical Gardens looked like after thousands of people poured into the Gardens with their trolley loads of alcohol. The photos were taken by Andrea Paul, who has been engaging with Council over the coming "protect the environment" policy!
It took the gardeners and several support staff eight (EIGHT) hours to clean up the mess. These people are gardeners - shouldn't they be able to garden?
Apparently one young man returned the next morning to collect his forgotten esky from amongst the debris and when confronted about the mess replied "isn't that what Australians do?".
Respect?? Concern for the environment? Common (or garden) decency??
This is what the St Kilda Botanical Gardens looked like after thousands of people poured into the Gardens with their trolley loads of alcohol. The photos were taken by Andrea Paul, who has been engaging with Council over the coming "protect the environment" policy!
It took the gardeners and several support staff eight (EIGHT) hours to clean up the mess. These people are gardeners - shouldn't they be able to garden?
Apparently one young man returned the next morning to collect his forgotten esky from amongst the debris and when confronted about the mess replied "isn't that what Australians do?".
Respect?? Concern for the environment? Common (or garden) decency??
January 8, 2012
December 10, 2011
Never want to see another sausage!
Well - until the next fund-raising sausage sizzle, I guess. We worked from 8.30am until 4.30 pm sizzling 650 snags, and onions. Good bit of money to go into the bank account for the new fence project - maybe we'll be able to buy 1.5m of fence with the surplus!
December 9, 2011
Tomorrow
Tomorrow the Friends of St Kilda Botanical Gardens will be cooking snags at Bunnings Port Melbourne to raise funds for the gardens.
500 sausages
35 loaves of bread
20 kg sliced onions
Come along - we're told the snags are good and every cent raised goes towards something good in the Gardens.
500 sausages
35 loaves of bread
20 kg sliced onions
Come along - we're told the snags are good and every cent raised goes towards something good in the Gardens.
November 18, 2011
Thanks to all our wonderful sponsors and supporters
Port Phillip Showband - book them - they are great!
Elwood Croquet Club - join, playing croquet is a great family game
Dom's Balaclava Fruit Mart
Sue Pennicuik MLC
Port Phillip Leader newspaper (thanks Sally and Jason)
Port Phillip EcoCentre
Our wonderful gardeners!
And special thanks to Judith and Geoff for turning the glasshouses into sparkling glass houses!
Our wonderful gardeners!
And special thanks to Judith and Geoff for turning the glasshouses into sparkling glass houses!
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