Lovely local

Look out for these lovely locals putting on a show of winter colour in Borthwick Park. The hardy evergreen Hardenbergia violacea a.k.a native lilac, Happy Wanderer, False Sarsaparilla or Purple Coral Pea is indigenous to the Adelaide area and greater South Australia....

13 Aug: Working Bee

Working bee! Borthwick Park! 2nd Sunday of every month between 9am and 11am Join us for morning tea and a chat from 11am – all welcome! Since 2010 the residents of Kensington have been working together to replenish the biodiversity and beauty of Borthwick Park....

Adelaide & Suburban Tramway Co. shed in Kensington

Thanks to Kensington resident Andrew C who alerted us to this wonderful photo posted on the ‘Adelaide Yesterday and Today’ Facebook page. Kensington c1905, between Shipsters Road and Regent Street: within the Adelaide and Suburban Tramway Co. tram shed we...

Another 650 plants in!

How about that?! Another 650 plants in the ground in Borthwick Park! Grasses, sedges, perennials, climbers and shrubs. All mulched and watered in. What an effort! Thanks so much to the many volunteers who got their hands dirty on Sundays 25 June and 2 July including...

Thanks

Thankyou to all the wonderful volunteers who join working bees in Borthwick Park on the 2nd Sunday of each month. Between 9am and 11am we do whatever needs doing – trimming shrubs, weeding, spreading mulch, raking up – then we catch up on the neighbourhood...