Queen’s Jubilee tree planting at the Melton Botanic Gardens

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Liam McNally

The Friends of the Melton Botanic Garden hosted a Queen’s Jubilee tree planting day on Thursday, June 1.

Planting Trees for the Queen’s Jubilee is a federal government initiative providing funding to community groups to assist them in planting trees to honour 70 years of service of Queen Elizabeth II.

The Friends of the Melton Botanic Garden received $20,000 from the fund to plant 500 trees in the Melton Botanic Garden.