Save BAAG from the North East Link!

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May 022019
 

BAAG is not in the clear yet. The next stage of the North East Link planning process, the Environmental Effects Statement is out now and BAAG is still within the designated project area! BAAG is one of around 80 small, local businesses, which range from pie makers to mechanics, included in the “construction compound” for the Manningham Road interchange.

We really want to continue here, so we need to convince the EES panel that it is worth redesigning the construction compound so that we can stay and continue bringing you interesting art, exhibitions as well as garden necessities and advice.

How Can you help us?

EES Submission – Due before 5pm Friday 6th June

Even a couple of lines of support will help

You can make your own submission to the EES about BAAG, or other aspects of NE Link which concern you. Make your submission at https://engage.vic.gov.au/north-east-link-project

You can find out more about the EES at https://northeastlink.vic.gov.au/environment/environment-effects-statement-ees, although you may not get through the whole 10,000 page document!

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Citrus has arrived!

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May 212019
 

Photo © Bulleen Art & Garden

Citrus has arrived! Lemons, limes, oranges, blood oranges, mandarins, cumquats, finger limes, grapefruit, citron and tangelo are all now in stock. (We also received a bunch of persimmon (non-astringent only) and olives). Most varieties are available in either dwarf or full size.

New Exhibition – Treefern Potters

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May 152019
 

Greg Yeaman, Deb Staun, Deanna Roberts, Steve Burton, Anne Watling, Meredith Merrall, Linda Moore and Aleida Wright

26th April to 1st June, 2019

The Treefern Potters are a diverse group of ceramic artists with their origins in the foothills of the Dandenong Ranges. They came together through various pottery classes and community groups and they are bound by a common addiction to clay!

More pictures and info at http://gallery.baag.com.au/?p=4087

May in your garden

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Apr 302019
 

Photo © Bulleen Art & Garden

Autumn foliage at its most stunning. The cold days and nights bring out the deep reds, translucent oranges and butter yellows in our wonderful deciduous trees. Take the time to enjoy autumn’s late flowering salvias, wonderful quince fruit (with their heady scent) and savour the late season apples. Take a bolt to the Dandenongs and combine autumn colours with early flowering camellias. I just love this last hurrah before winter. So rug up and enjoy May in your garden!

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Why your garden matters!

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Apr 202019
 

Photo © Bulleen Art & Garden

Every garden is its own (or is a unique but connected) ecosystem containing an extraordinary array of living organisms including plants, fungi, bacteria, microbes, insects and animals that all impact on the health and resilience of the living network. We are each the stewards of our gardens, the actions that we take can positively or negatively impact on this ecosystem.
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BAAG at the 2019 Banyule Arty Farty Festival

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Apr 182019
 

Photo © Bulleen Art & Garden

Another day at the Arty Farty Festival in partnership with the Banyule Sustainability Hub where BAAG staff members Kat, Nicole and Amy did a workshop of how you can grow your seeds in pots made from old newspapers, and reducing waste overall by growing some of your herbs and vegies from seed. We love supporting this festival not only because it is out local community, but also because it is artistic, creative and fun!

Great to see lots of our friends down there who called over to say hello, and we made lots of new friends too, including Sam, who had the amazing Butterfly Adventure tent in a stall next to us.

Plant Tiles

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Apr 172019
 

Photo © Bulleen Art & Garden

Plant tiles create stunning, alternative lawns and outdoor solutions instantly at half the cost of using traditional pots! Each tile covers the same area as ten traditional 100mm pots. As the plants grow, the roots bind the media together so that the Plant Tiles can be removed from the tray then laid on the area you have prepared. If required, simply cut to shape with scissors, then butt together and water in for complete coverage. Achieve full, green coverage instantly.
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North East Link Updates

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Apr 102019
 

Photo © Bulleen Art & Garden

Thank you so much to the lovely family who dropped in these cards and flowers today in support of BAAG’s fight to remain on this site as the plans for the North East Link start to unfold. We are constantly touched by the level of support we get from our amazing customers!

Stay tuned here as things are starting to ramp up a little this week with regard to the North East Link plans. We will be updating this post as information is released. We may need you guys to help us again!

Marvellous Minibeasts – Free Workshop for Kids

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Apr 092019
 

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Join us in our bug tent on Tuesday the 16th between 11:30am and 1:30pm for our Marvellous Minibeasts program. Your kids will learn how to feed and handle stick insects, butterflies, giant litter bugs, yabbies and more. Children will also have the opportunity to catch aquatic minibeasts and view bugs up close with microscopes to discover bug features and adaptations.
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April in your garden

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Mar 272019
 

Photo © Bulleen Art & Garden

Our customer base is a pretty savvy and well informed one, and this is always reinforced in March and April as sales of native plants soar. Good gardeners are well aware that this is the ideal time to plant natives, and all of a sudden we are doubling orders for natives as they walk off the bench. The weather can still provide us with warm days in April, but without the hot sun and with rain happening or imminent it’s an ideal time for gardening and planting. Now is also the perfect time to start preparing your winter vegie patch. There’s plenty to do in the garden in April, so put summer behind you and get cracking!

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New Exhibition – Metal Transformations

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Mar 142019
 

Sculpture by Issa Ouattara

15th March to 21st April 2019

This exhibition will showcase the work of African/Australian sculptor Issa Ouattara. Although now based near Daylesford in country Victoria, Issa’s birth place was Cote d’Ivoire in West Africa. With a successful sculpting career in both Africa and Australia and family life in rural Australia, Issa demonstrates how a difficult start to life, including child labour, poverty and war, can be overcome. His contemporary sculpture draws on his West African cultural and artistic heritage as well as his life experience to create large figurative sculptures and functional sculpt-artworks .

More pictures and info at http://gallery.baag.com.au/?p=4052

Violas

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Mar 122019
 

Photo © Bulleen Art & Garden

Happy vibrant violas – easy to grow and easy to love.

Lower growing and more profusely flowering than pansies, their smaller flowers have the bright and bold colours associated with their larger cousins and are equally enchanting. They will flower most of the year, but avoid the summer sun, as excessive heat will make them yellow off. Great from early autumn all the way to the end of spring.
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Garden Releaf Day 2019 – Sunday March 24

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Mar 012019
 

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BAAG will once again be supporting the Garden Releaf program in 2019 with Garden Releaf day on Sunday March 24. Focusing on the benefits of plants and gardens to enrich our lives, BAAG will be exploding with gardening ideas. The aim is to encourage people to get into their garden and get planting.

Get involved in a local community garden!

This year Bulleen Art & Garden will be holding a talk for people who would like to get involved in gardening, but who don’t have a garden of their own, as well as those who have thought about getting involved in a local community garden.

Marina Bistrin from MacLeod Organic Community Garden will be at Bulleen Art & Garden on Sunday 24th March at 11am to speak about what Community Gardens are in our local area, and how you can become involved.

Marina is very knowledgeable and is actively involved in many of the Community Gardens in our local area, and has a keen interest in cold composting and keeping things out of landfill. You may have heard of her if you subscribe to Local Food Connect, another valuable resource for local food and local gardens in our area, as she has had some articles published under the heading “Marina’s Musings”.

Half price blueberries all weekend!

All Blueberries at BAAG will be 50% off all weekend, with $1 from each Blueberry sold going directly to Beyond Blue. We will also be accepting donations for the talk and our gift wrapping service.

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