Secret garden of Knox: How locals built an amazing indigenous plant nursery
The Knox Environment Society has over 300 volunteer members and grows over 70,000 plants a year.
Sally Dusting-Laird
October 18, 2024
The Knox Environment Society (KES), founded in 1985, runs one of Australia's first indigenous nurseries. Plant sales, often using local seedlings, are used to fund community and environmental projects. The nursery grows over 70,000 indigenous plants per year, maintained by volunteers.
KES has grown from 100 to over 300 members in the last decade.
The group recently met with the Lizard Wizard, a wildlife education business, who showed off snakes, sugar gliders, and other reptiles.
Ever had a snake wrapped around your neck to keep you warm at a work meeting? If not, you’re missing out. The Australian python is an incredible natural scarf!
That’s just the kind of thing that can happen at the Volunteer for Knox Resource Centre, where a recent Network with Nature meeting featured a visit from the Lizard Wizard, who shared beautiful Gemini the snake, Morty the sugar glider, lizards, frogs, and turtles.
Knox Environment Society volunteer Adele Braun with a python.