Restore nature

Create a cooler and greener home

Adding plants to your garden, balcony or nature strip is a simple way to create a cooler, healthier and more beautiful home.

Trees and shrubs provide shade, improve air quality, support local wildlife and make outdoor spaces more enjoyable year-round.

Reduce heat around your home

While Hobart is known for its mild climate, hot days are becoming more common and heat can have serious impacts on our health and wellbeing.

Trees and vegetation can reduce temperatures around homes and neighbourhoods by providing shade and cooling the air through evapotranspiration.

This helps create more comfortable outdoor spaces, reduces heat stress and can even lower the need for air conditioning during summer.

Garden with bushfire resilience in mind

If you live in a bushfire-prone area, consider Bushfire Ready Gardens guide.

Thoughtful plant selection and garden design can help reduce bushfire risk while still creating a thriving and attractive garden.

Support local wildlife

Choosing locally native plants in your garden is a great way to build climate resilience.

Native Tasmanian species provide food and habitat for birds, bees and other pollinators, while generally requiring less water and maintenance.

Strengthen local ecosystems

Planting native species also helps strengthen local ecosystems as our climate changes.

When you choose Tasmanian native plants, you avoid introducing environmental weeds such as willows, blackberries, and foxglove. These can harm native habitats and reduce ecosystem resilience.

Avoid environmental weeds

When you plant native Tasmanian plants, you avoid introducing new environmental weeds.

Your local native plant species are often much lower maintenance and require less water than exotic plants.

Enjoy cooler and healthier neighbourhoods

Trees, gardens and green spaces make our neighourhoods cooler, healthier and more enjoyable places to live.

They provide shade on hot days, help absorb rainfall, provide habitat for wildlife.

Add more green space where you can

Adding more green cover is a practical climate action.

You can plant a tree, create a garden bed, grow vegetables, add planter boxes to a balcony or introduce potted plants to paved areas.

Protect the green cover we already have

Existing green cover is valuable. Preserving and caring for trees, shrubs, and gardens already in place is an important climate action that's easy to take.

Avoiding unnecessary clearing and removal is key to keeping the climate resilience we already have.

Exceptions to this include removing vegetation to reduce bushfire risk to buildings, removing dying or otherwise dangerous large trees, and clearing weed species.

Plant more street trees

The City of Hobart offers care, replacement, and the planting of new street trees.

Get in touch to see if they can plant new trees on your street:

Request a tree planting

Join a local Bushcare or Landcare group

Getting involved in Bushcare or Landcare is a great way to connect with your community, enjoy the outdoors and help care for the places that make Hobart special.

Find a Bushcare group near you:

Bushcare groups and events

Help restore habitat and biodiversity

Local volunteers work together to remove weeds, plant native species, restore habitat and care for bushland, waterways and reserves.

These actions strengthen local ecosystems, support biodiversity and help build resilience to climate change.