Johnson Park

Whilst this site is adjacent to Johnson Park when you are in it you are a world away in solitude. – Geoff
The site
Johnson Park orginally was part of the Waratah Mills site so is also long and narrow – about 150m by 8m – within the railway corridor between Terry Road and Constitution Rd, Dulwich Hill. It is RailCorp land but Marrickville Council is licensed to use it and IWEG works there under the council’s auspices.

Care of this site has, since December 2014, been taken over by the IWEG mid-week team.

If you available during the week and want to make new friends and get your hands in the soil then please join us.
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An Eastern Water Skink enjoying the sun
What’s there
About 70 species of local-provenance plants have been planted here, including wattles, banksias, lilies, grasses, sedges, hakeas, hop bush and kunzea, among other things.

Native grasses and shrubs are now self-seeding and have created an almost complete grass and shrub cover.
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Banksia
Access
Volunteers enter the site via a gate inside Johnson Park.  Access is also possible from a gate in Terry Road.

Challenges and opportunities
  • Most of the site has now been planted with natives but there is still a large area on the southern end of the site adjacent to Johnson Park that needs work.
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Trees die, decay and new growth appears
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