Annangrove: Park, Gardens and Conservation

Annangrove Park and Community Environment Centre

Annangrove Park brings together a single sports field, the Community Environment Centre and bushland of high conservation significance. The Centre is at the back of the park, in the car park on Currie Avenue, which branches off Annangrove Road. This road and park information helps you locate the Centre within the park.

Gardens at the Centre

The Community Environment Centre has a native plant garden, a vegetable garden and a bush tucker garden. There is also a water-wise garden bed, several compost bins, a worm farm and a beehive with native bees. The three gardens focus on different types of plants; the water-wise bed and composting features complement them with themes related to water and composting. The beehive adds a connection to native bees. This brings together different types of gardens alongside individual features that illustrate other aspects of gardening. To help orient yourself, you can look at the garden areas by their planting focus and the themes of water conservation, composting and native bees.

Access, opening hours and workshops

The gardens and outdoor demonstration areas at the Community Environment Centre are open to the public at all times. The Centre's opening hours are listed as Thursdays from 9 am to 4 pm and Saturdays from 10 am to 2 pm. Workshops are held there regularly, usually on Thursdays or Saturdays. Since the usual workshop days coincide with the weekdays listed for the opening hours, you can plan around these days. Check the Hills Shire Council’s latest notices about access, opening hours and specific workshop dates in advance. The access information applies to the outdoor areas; the hours refer to the Centre. This means that planning a visit to the gardens differs from planning around a workshop date.

Bushland and conservation

Annangrove Park includes bushland of high conservation significance. Threatened species include Tetratheca glanulosa, Darwinia biflora, Leucopogon fletcheri, Hibbertia superans, Pimelea curviflora, Glossy Black Cockatoos and Red Crowned Toadlets. Higher-lying areas also contain fragments of the endangered bushland communities Sydney Turpentine Ironbark Forest and Shale Sandstone Transition Forest. Species and bushland communities represent different scales: individual threatened species on the one hand, and fragments of entire endangered communities on the other. The conservation focus therefore ranges from specific species to larger vegetation units, fragments of which occur in the higher-lying areas. The gardens at the Centre and the bushland have different focuses: landscaped garden areas on one hand, and threatened species and community fragments on the other.

Local-level sport

The single sports field at Annangrove Park is best suited to local-level sport. It offers a different focus for a visit than the gardens at the Centre and the bushland of conservation significance. The park therefore brings together a local sporting focus, garden areas and conservation themes. This distinction can help you choose Annangrove based on the focus that suits your travel interests.

For the broader travel overview: The Hills Shire Council.