Planting guide takes advice to new level

Attention all those looking for a practical planting guide for the Tweed.

If you want to go one step up from our Great Plants for Backyard Habitat handout, Council helping to develop a planting booklet to accompany the Native Species Planting Guide.

In its current form, this amazing guide provides information on 1580 plant species. It consists of a Native Species List in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, a report outlining how each field in the spreadsheet was populated and a guide to assist those unfamiliar with using spreadsheets.

So, if you want to select some salt-tolerant plants with bird-attracting flowers that don’t grow higher than eight metres, this guide will help you make your choices.

The final booklet will summarise key information from the planting guide in a user-friendly format handy for every gardener. It will be a great resource when planning to build a garden from scratch or for extending an existing backyard habitat.

The booklet is due for publication around March 2017. For further information, see the Tweed Shire Council Native Species Planting Guide tab of the Important Links side bar.