THE Australian Native Plant Society is holding their spring sale this Saturday at the Australian National Botanic Gardens.
The society promises the best range of Australian plants in Canberra, including many local species.
They advise you should get in early for the best selection – and bring a bag or box for your purchases.
With over 50 years experience growing Australian plants in the Canberra region, the Australian Native Plant Society specialises in providing well labelled, good quality, competitively priced plants which are ideal for new and established gardens.
A list of plants for sale this Saturday is available from http://nativeplants-canberra.asn.au
When: Saturday 18 October 2014
Time: 8.30 am – 1.30 pm or until sold out
Where: Southern Car Park of the Australian National Botanic Gardens, Clunies Ross Street, Acton
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![Teacher Vanessa Jones has been living in Higgins since 2001, and while she loves the area, she says she is “fed up” with the neglectful ACT government.
The Higgins shops have been completely abandoned, says Vanessa, preventing the opportunity for residents to have a community-centred space to socialise.
They only received bins nine months ago, she says, and requests for a water station and repairs to the bus station have gone unanswered.
“It’s very, very slow,” says Vanessa.
“I asked for the zebra crossing on Fullagar [Crescent] to be repainted, and we had to wait about six or nine months.
“That’s just such a long time… we pay a lot of rates.”
Vanessa says assistance from the government only seems to go to communities with time-rich and assertive communities, leaving places such as Higgins, where the majority of households have both adults working full-time and English may not be the first language of the family, at an automatic disadvantage.
“If you’ve got two people working, paying a mortgage, raising two or three kids, they don’t have the time,” says Vanessa.
Vanessa says the lack of attention quieter places such as Higgins is receiving is starting to look a lot like favouritism.
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