Friends of Banksia Park
Banksia Park is a public reserve of approximately 2.2 hectares located in Normanville. It can be accessed from any of the park entrances along either Mountain Drive, or Edmund Street, or Mary Street, or James Street, or Banksia Court.
Originally it was part of a larger area of scrub land, located on the red Permian sandhills to the east of the Normanville township and remnants of the original scrub remain on farm land to the west of the juncture of Brooke Place and Norman Avenue. However, over the course of time most of the scrub land, known as Banksia Scrub, became replaced by housing and a small part of the overall housing estate was set aside as the reserve known now as Banksia Park.
Banksia Park, situated behind Mitre 10, is home to the beautiful Banksia marginata some of which are hundreds of years old and in need of some tender loving care.
The Friends of Banksia Park group is an enthusiastic group of locals and even some from further away, who have an ongoing commitment to establishing native vegetation around those important remnant Banksias and removing weeds and pest plants from sections of the Park. Our Working Bees are held on the second Saturday of each month from 8am to 10am and we finish up with a coffee/tea and a chat at the end of the work.
If you want to join this group, then just turn up at a Working Bee or email Matt Robertson on libbymatt15@bigpond.com for more details.