INSTEAD of planting all those pretty flowers and flowers that last one year, Bathurst Regional Council could save money by planting native plants in our local gardens.
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Here are some native plant ideas: grevilleas, waratahs, banksias, eucalyptus, bottlebrush.
We need native plants in the gardens to attract native birds and native bees.
When people take plants to places where they do not normally grow, they become environmental weeds.
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Introduced species can reproduce very quickly and cover large areas of habitat.
Environmental weeds also threaten the animals that eat native plants, as their natural food supply is removed.
A South American plant has become an environmental weed in Australia and South Africa.
Those pretty and one year-lasting flowers waste precious money and water, but natives don't waste anything.
