Tree Replacement

If you’ve spent any time in Centennial Parklands recently, you might think all’s well. But the worrying fact is that many of the trees are in decline. Age, drought, poor soils, root compaction and the pressures of the urban environment have severely stressed many of the Parklands trees.

Our current assessment is that up to 60% of the Parklands’ 15,000 trees will need to be replaced over the next forty years.

It costs a lot of money to replace a tree. Many species need to be ordered years ahead and grown to a significant size before they can be transplanted.

We need to act now to ensure that visitors to Centennial Parklands in ten or twenty years do not see a landscape sadly diminished by the loss of major trees. Instead, we want to ensure they find the Parklands flourishing with new growth as the trees we plant today reach maturity and replace the ageing giants.

We need your help. You can make a general donation to the Foundation or support a specific tree planting project.

The Grand Drive Inner Ring project

This project will see over 100 semi-mature trees planted over a three year period to form a completely new avenue of trees that will enhance the existing avenues of Figs, Oaks and Pines planted along Grand Drive at the turn of last century.

This is the first major tree planting project to be undertaken since the Parkes Drive Palm avenues were replaced with the successful Kauri Pine (Agathis robusta) plantings in 2000.

The Wollemi Pine Grove

The Wollemi Pine (Wollemi nobilis) is one of the most significant botanical discoveries in recent memory. A grove of rare Australian pines is proposed adjacent to the Jervois Avenue Gates, dominated by the Wollemi Pine and supplemented by close relatives including the:

Bunya Pine (Araucaria bidwilli)
Norfolk Island Pine (Araucaria heterophylla)
Hoop Pine (Araucaria cunninghamii)
Cook Pine (Araucaria columnaris)