On Sunday 5th October the Friends of Piesse Brook will host an Open Day at the entrance gate to the Kalamunda National Park at the far end of Schipp Road, Piesse Brook.
At the Open Day the Friends group will showcase the work they have done in the park over the last eight years.
In addition there will be displays from supporters and sponsors of the group, including the Swan Catchment Centre, The River Guardians, Swan Alcoa Landcare Program and the Department of Environment and Conservation, explaining how they each assist and advise groups how to form and function.
There will be a sausage sizzle at 12 noon till 2pm, a wildflower walk at 1pm in the surrounding parkland and the local camel farm will be offering camel rides on the bridal trail in the afternoon.
The Open Day will be in conjunction with an Open Garden belonging to a Friends of Piesse Brook member family. The garden, Katandra, is at 142 Hummerston Road, Piesse Brook and will be open on Saturday 4th October and Sunday 5th October from 10.00am – 4.30pm.
Katandra is the garden of John and Linda Stanley and opens to the public for the first time this weekend as part of the Australian Open Garden Scheme. The garden is adjacent to Kalamunda National Park and therefore faces some interesting challenges. John and Linda are horticulturalists and conservationists and therefore they have had to consider in the creation of their garden a garden that does not contain invasive plants that would potentially invade the adjacent national park, they and other locals work to conserve. The garden has been created following a bushfire that went through the property in 1988 and destroyed the existing garden and has been a learning process for the Stanley’s. They have removed many of the early plants they planted, when they found that the plants were invasive and seedlings had begun to creep towards the park. The garden has some unique features, including the first pondless waterfall in Australia, built by Aquascapes from Canada. This type of water garden will in John and Linda’s view, be the way of the future. The first white kangaroo paws in a WA garden will also be in bloom as well as other interesting predominantly waterwise plants. Admission is $6.00 per person and children are free, with a proportion of proceeds going to charity.
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