•         Overall Focus: To provide local endemic plant seedlings to the Community.

•         Environmental Focus: to replant degraded areas, stabilise soil, minimise erosion, create windbreaks, increase biodiversity values, control weeds and reduce salinity impacts.

•         Community Focus: Establish a Landcare ethic throughout the Shire of Mundaring.  Assist volunteer Friends Groups in actively managing a Shire Reserve.  Educate the community about landcare and environmental initiatives.

Seedlings produced through the Tree Canopy and Understorey Program are available for all residential properties and Shire vested reserves within the Shire of Mundaring.  This includes 21 suburbs from Helena Valley in the West to Wooroloo in the East.  The Shire provides seedlings on an application basis that begins mid February and closes at the end of April each year. 

Hard copy booklets with photos of all species are available at the Shire Office, Shire Libraries and at the TCUP pick up location to provide further information on your seedlings.

Letters advising applicants of their allocation and the pick up details will start going out from Monday 10 May onwards to successful applicants.  Please remember to bring a cardboard box with you when you pick up your seedlings.

                    Expressions of Interest for seedlings for
             2012 will open in mid February

Click here for the Tree Canopy Programme Species List Brochure
Click here for the Planting Guide

Calling for Volunteers:

This year the Shire is once again looking for volunteers to help hand out the seedlings from a central distribution point within the Shire.  If you can help, contact the Shire's Bushcare Coordinator: 9290 6685 or email:  bcc@mundaring.wa.gov.au

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This program assists the local community to enhance both private and public properties that cover diverse landscapes throughout the region, including the Swan Coastal Plain, Darling Scarp and Darling Plateau.

Specifically this project supports natural area management on:

•   larger scale properties
•   hobby farms
•    salinity affected area
•    rural landscapes
•    Peri urban properties
•   Watercourse rehabilitation
•    Bush regeneration
•   Backyard landscaping on smaller urban blocks.