Things You Can Do...

Write to the City of Yarra to request a rubbish bin next to me.

Pick up the cigarette butts each week, and any other litter too!

Don't drop rubbish!

How to prune your Myrtle Tree

Some other Crepe Myrtle Trees...

Meet Crepe Myrtle

12th June 2007

Hello! By the way.. my name is actually Crepe Myrtle (pronounced CRAYP MERTEL) . The correct scientific name is Lagerstroemia.

If you want to come and visit me, come to the corner of Bridge Road and Union Street, Richmond… Oh.. and my brother maybe there too!

Today’s Weather
Heat : 14 degrees
Wind : West to South-Westerly 21kms per hour
Rain : showers

Not so sick after all!

11th June 2007

Hi! OK going back a few days, it turns out that I wasn’t sick. I shed my leaves in Winter. I am deciduous. Also I should get sun during Winter and I should be sheltered in Summer. Oh.. and going back to my picture… I think I am starting to get flowers!


Today’s Weather
Heat : 14 degrees
Wind : South Westerly 39kms per hour
Rainfall : 3.10mm

Littering and Pollution... YUK!

9th June 2007

yuk. do i look like a rubbish bin?

Someone call a Doctor!

30th May 2007

Hi! Me again! Now you know that there’s a school rule about no littering and the same goes for everywhere else, because rubbish and cigarette butts will affect my growth for the worst – like this picture here. I look sick. I’m feeling sick.


Today’s Weather
Heat : windy, maximum of 19 degrees
Wind : northerly strong winds
Rainfall : rain periods developing




seeya... cough cough

Introduction to a tree

23rd May 2007

Hi! I’m a tree. A very special tree. ‘Why so special?’ you may ask. Well, I have been planted on the very busy street – Bridge Road.

Over the next three weeks we will see how littering and the city life will affect me.



Today’s Weather
Heat : fine and cloudy. Maximum of 19 degrees
Wind : north westerly 15 knots
Rainfall : chance of showers

Seeya!