Gardening news...

The Ashfield Community Gardeners are proud to announce the launch of our brand 
new website at www.ashfieldcommunitygardeners.org 

If you would like to try community gardening in Ashfield Council locale, please come along to one of our working bees at the times listed below.

• Summer Hill Eora Garden: 9:30am on the second Saturday and fourth Sunday of the month
• Haberfield Community Garden: 9:30am on the fourth Saturday of the month
• Ashfield Park Community Garden: 9:00am on the first and third Saturday of the month

suburban fireworks

above you might be able to just see the annual procession through Ashfield Park towards prime positioning for firework viewing - the distant red lights in top pic. Next year on this busy corner we will have views above a common and invading, like a noxious weed, 24/7 fast food outlet! Our quiet innerwest suburb will never be the same. Depressing that yet again $-making wins over community needs (7000 people signed against this development).

Ashfield Park...

CARNIVAL OF CULTURES  

cancelled due to heavy rain

The annual festival held in our local 19th century park is full of grand trees, old school flower beds (either roses, geraniums or canna lilies) and Pheonix palm trees. The Carnival celebrates the diversity of people that live in the area and the paths are lined with plenty of community stalls and food stands. Well unfortunately not today...

I like others still went to collect our annual 3 free plants! This year again was only natives and I think there was a better choice of smaller shrubs (how the birds will be happy to have more Grevilleas about !) I am not sure about my particular choice... they are pretty but whether they will take to my shady clay and dry garden we will see. Here in front of a jade plant are my 3 newbies from left to right: Lomandra longifolia (because of its "strongly perfumed flowers"), Austromyrtus inophloia - blushing beauty and Dianella hybrid - silver streak.