Our Nature Restoration Journey

We hope our story inspires others to plant a tree, create a backyard water feature, put up a nesting box and appreciate nature.

Everyone can give nature a helping hand. You don't need wealth, you just need passion.

In 2021, we realised our dream. We found a degraded bush block in Esperance, Western Australia which backed onto a RAMSAR wetland and set about to revegetate it, and set up a wildlife rescue centre.

This 12 acre block still had some remenant native trees and shrubs, not notably Nuytsia trees. Nuytsia floribunda is a hemiparasitic tree found in Western Australia. The species is known locally as moodjar and, more recently, the Christmas tree or Western Australian Christmas tree. The display of intensely bright flowers during the austral summer coincides with the Christmas season.

Banksia

Banksia speciosa is an imposing shrub or small tree whose flowers are often commercially used in cut-flower arrangements. Mostly a many branched shrub to 4 metres, it may sometimes grow to double that size. The linear leaves may reach 45 cm long, and are divided into small, triangular lobes. They are green above and white underneath. Flowering may occur at any time but generally peaks in summer and autumn. The attractive, ovoid inflorescences are up to 12 cm long, 9 or 10 cm wide and cream to pale yellow in colour. The seeds are enclosed in large, woody follicles and are generally retained within the cone until burnt.