THE verge outside the Greenwood Park police station on Buxton Road was given a makeover last week when volunteers from Grace Church Riverside campus, together with the Durban North Conservancy and Enviro Fixers Durban North, got to work.

The collaborative project saw the entrance verge weeded and composted with new water-wise, indigenous plants being propagated.

Volunteers also tackled a section inside the station’s perimeter wall to plant trees.

Jane Troughton, the chairperson of the conservancy and a member of the environmental group, said she was pleased with how the project turned out.

“Prior to our work here the entrance was covered in weeds, thick vegetation and alien invasive plants. Our volunteers got into the thick of things removing the alien invasive plants before preparing the soil and planting indigenous plants. We are grateful for the support of the Greenwood Park police station commander who gave us the go-ahead for the project. I think he saw the work we’d done a few years ago at the Durban North police station where we did up the flower beds at the entrance to the station.

“We made good progress and a key part of our partnership with Grace Riverside was spreading awareness. We chatted about soil health, why we need to cover the soil as quickly as possible with plants, and the environmental reasons why planting indigenous is better. On the inside of the station, near the boundary fence, we had another team planting trees and shrubs,” she said.

Troughton also thanked Grovida who donated structural plants, compost, eco-pellets and daisy bushes.

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