Doreen’s Grassland

Named after a local resident who lived in Civic Parade in the 1940s and kept pressings of the remarkable local wildflower meadows, this long-ignored remnant has been fenced and is now receiving some much-needed attention by local Council. Includes Critically Endangered Spiny Rice-flower.

Main photo: Doreen and the book of flower pressings she made as a child
2: Altona 1945, an expanse of nationally significant grassland now mostly cleared
3: Doreen's book page 1
4: Doreen's book page 2
5: Doreen's book page 3
6: Doreen's book page 4
7: Doreen's book page 5
8: Doreen's book page 6
9: Doreen's book page 7
10: Today's Doreen's Grassland is at the north end of Grieve Parade in the 1945 photo