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.