Verging on gardening greatness

Published 07 November 2025

City of Moreton Bay Division 6 Councillor Karl Winchester and Mayor Peter Flannery inspect a verge gardens demonstration site at Margate.
  • City of Moreton Bay encourages local green thumbs to create verge gardens with new resources
  • The Biodiverse Verge Garden Project aims to improve urban biodiversity and wildlife habitat connectivity
  • Moreton Bay is home to 84 different vegetation communities that occur naturally throughout the City

Boosting biodiversity is just a click away in the suburbs of Moreton Bay after the launch of a new suite of online verge garden resources.

Starting today, City of Moreton Bay residents can access a comprehensive suite of resources for their own biodiversity-friendly verge gardens in their neighbourhood.

The initiative will help turn nature strips into a haven for bees, lizards, birds and other wildlife by planting native plants local to the area.

Mayor Peter Flannery said with 84 vegetation communities occurring naturally throughout City of Moreton Bay, creating a verge garden was the perfect opportunity to improve urban biodiversity and wildlife connectivity.

“City of Moreton Bay’s urban environments play an important role in providing a series of interconnected stepping-stones for wildlife habitat across our landscape,” he said.

“These stepping-stones allow native flora and fauna to expand and move between larger areas of wildlife habitat. By reintroducing native plants that naturally occur in a specific location, residents are effectively letting nature do the work.

“We’re putting nature back into nature strips.”

Three verge garden demonstration sites at Margate, Deception Bay and Brendale have already been established by Council, showcasing what’s possible for residents who are keen to see their own creation blossom.

“I recently visited the Margate verge garden demonstration site and was impressed with the diverse flora on display,” Mayor Flannery said.

“Through Council’s new resources and updated webpage, residents will have access to all the information they need to get started. You can download an information pack, view local law guidelines and complete a checklist to ensure your garden meets the relevant requirements.”

Locally native plants are the homes and nurseries for Moreton Bay’s native flora and fauna, offering shelter, food and pollination reservoirs, nesting and breeding grounds.

The City’s vegetation communities are categorised into nine of Australia’s broad vegetation groups - Rainforests and Scrubs, Wet Eucalypt Open Forests, Eastern Eucalypt Woodlands to Open Forests, Eucalypt Open Forests to Woodlands on Floodplains, Eucalypt Dry Woodlands on Inland Depositional Plains, Melaleuca Open Woodlands on Depositional Plains, Other Coastal Communities or Heaths, Wetlands - Swamps or Lakes and Mangroves and Tidal Saltmarshes.

For more information on how to create a biodiverse verge garden in your neighbourhood, head to https://www.moretonbay.qld.gov.au/Services/Roads/Road-Verge-Landscaping.

Verge garden demonstration sites can be viewed at the following locations:

  • 109 Sorrento Street, Margate
  • 18 George Street, Deception Bay and;
  • 33 Brendale Street, Brendale
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