Councils plant and maintain street trees. Residents can help those trees thrive by replacing the grass on the verge with a low-maintenance, native verge garden.
But what do you do when it's all grass and there is no concrete path? You still have to leave a path for pedestrians. And all that grass means lots of edges.
This is a very large verge at the beginning of a conversion. No concrete path adds to the challenge. The initial steps have been to plant around the new street trees.
See more about this garden at Lapwings on the Verge
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Brisbane City Council has a policy and guidelines for residents here.
The ACF Community Brisbane Northside Verge Garden Nature Project is part of the Australian Conservation Foundation’s Save Our Big Backyard campaign to raise community awareness and knowledge about the importance of biodiversity and native habitat in our suburbs as well in regional and remote areas.