Group convenor: Chris Galbraith
The area between Ashgrove and Newmarket, along Ashgrove Avenue, was originally known as the Three Mile Scrub. Remnant areas of lowland rainforest remain in the Banks Street Reserve and along Enoggera Creek. SOWN pioneer and horticulture teacher Trevor Ozanne began working on this area in 1988.
In 2013, when group leader of Three Mile Scrub Quandong Park, Chris Galbraith, first started the revegetation of Enoggera Creek at Quandong Park, the creek bed was dominated by cane grass Pennisetum purpureum. It took the group less than 10 years to replace the weedy grass with native vegetation. Chris’s main objective from the beginning has been to replace degraded areas with habitat for native animals.
This area is part of SOWN’s Re-greening of Three Mile Scrub project. Three Mile Scrub -Quandong Park works closely with adjoining group Three Mile Scrub – Seils Park.
This bushcare site is supported by the Brisbane City Council Habitat Brisbane program. For more information about the group or planting times, please contact: Chris Galbraith on 0419 724 574.
Simon Fox, Chris Galbraith and Jodi Rees in November 2021 celebrating the last of the cane grass. Photo: Anne Jones
Quandong Park Group in January 2019. Photo: Mark Crocker
