This partnership’s impact
Footscray West Primary by the numbers.
80
Free pollinator friendly seedlings delivered to the school in October, from an allocation of 72 following the sales of the February 2026 Pollinator Packs.
92
Seedlings sold in the February packs with all proceeds going straight back into the program.
7
Hours of site visits, gardening guidance, learning material preparation and planting provided to date.
This term
Notes from the garden.
March
Site visit conducted to identify growing sites, review quality of soil and understand current student behaviour and activity in the garden.
March
Student representatives from the environment and gardening teams sowed native seeds in The Corner Garden to grow for the 72 seedling donation.
March
Plant information guide with uses, height, width and growing conditions developed and provided to FWPS to contribute to student learning.
May
Snails found the native seedlings and particularly like eating the pink and white everlasting daisies! I sowed another tray of seedlings, which has grown slowly over winter.
July
Second school visit for a student co-design session on an identified site for garden uplift. This session considered the current use of the space, and students had ideas such as a rainbow flower forest and logs for them to sit on while enjoying the space.
August
Soil testing protocols developed and shared with the teachers.
August
Additional seedlings were grown to match the term 4 planting timeline.
October
Delivered 80 pollinator friendly seedlings, including pink and white everlastings, coreopsis, nasturtium, marigold, cerinthe, phacelia, dichondra, dahlia and verbena bonariensis. Students cleared the remaining tan bark out of the bed, and planted the seedlings in a wavy pattern to create ‘drifts’ of colour. They learnt the seedlings can stay in their newspaper pots to prevent transplantation shock, and that everyday ‘waste’ materials can be used sustainably in the garden.
Growing Gardeners