As part of the Urban Creek Resilience and Recovery Project, funded by the Australian Government’s Urban Rivers and Catchments Program, Council is scheduled to plant more than 2,000 local native trees, shrubs, wildflowers, and groundcovers along three sections of Panalatinga and Serpentine Creeks in July and August 2025.

Twenty species of endemic plants have been selected to deliver the following benefits:

• Provide important habitat for many native birds, bees, and butterfly species, some of which are rare in urban areas, including Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoos, Superb Fairy-wrens, Chequered Swallowtail Butterflies, and Long-tailed Pea-blue Butterflies.
• Offer shade and cooling during hot weather.
• Enhance greening and improve visual amenity.

Following the recent Preliminary Site Preparation work that included removing and pruning some woody weed trees, this planting work is the next step in improving the overall health of our natural landscapes within these watercourses, as part of this Urban Creeks Resilience and Recovery project.

By planting some species early in the project, we are allowing time for establishment before creek rehabilitation works begin. These native seedlings will be planted away from the creek beds and banks to avoid interfering with future construction works currently being designed.

Refer to the attached plan for the planting locations.