Shellharbour City Council staff will join in National Tree Day plantings by planting hundreds of trees at Blackbutt Reserve this month.
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Native plants including sandpaper figs, cheese trees and yellow stringy bark eucalyptus will be planted in the reserve by more than 50 staff who have volunteered to plant during their lunch breaks.
The plants have been grown from seeds collected by council staff and local BushCare volunteers and cultivated at the council's nursery.
National Tree Day is Australia's largest community tree planting event that combines community and school tree planting days during July.
The council will donate about 400 plants to local schools wanting to participate in the school tree planting day on Friday, July 24.
Up to 400 plants will be provided to two BushCare groups organising tree plantings at Blackbutt and Flinders and to a LandCare group at Tullimbar. All are welcome.
Blackbutt BushCare's tree planting will be from 9am-noon on July 19 at the entrance to Blackbutt Forest on Wattle Road.
Tullimbah LandCare's will be at the Elizabeth Brownlee Reserve at 10am on Saturday, July 25.
Currumbene Bushcare's tree planting will begin at 9am, on Saturday July 25. Meet on the corner of Baragoot Road and Grainger Parkway at Flinders.
For more details about National Tree Day activities in Shellharbour contact 4221 6199.
