The Mannerim Memorial Indigenous Garden, Design and Plants
The garden was specifically designed to utilise Indigenous plants while symbolically honouring the soliders. Our own indigenous "Running Postman" flowers red, like the poppies of Flanders. Twelve tall, strong Blackwood trees, one for each of the local soldiers who paid the ultimate sacrifice, are surrounded by swathes of Weeping Grass, Plume Grass, Chocolate and Bulbine Lilies, like family at a funeral.
The plants were provided by our local Indigenous Nursery which is a joint initiative between Bellarine Landcare Group and Bellarine Secondary College. Click on each of the plants below to find out more about the species.
Acacia Implexa
Microlaena stipoides
Clematis microphylla
Banksia marginata
Hibbertia sericea
Bossiaea cinereal
Kennedia prostrata
Austrodanthonia caespitosa
Dichelachne crinita
Themeda triandra
Chloris truncata
Bulbine bulbosa
Dichopogon strictus
Brunonia australis
Wahlenbergia communis
Poa labillardierei
Caesia calliantha
Asperula conferta