Friends of Banksia Park
Banksia Park is a public reserve of approximately 2.2 hectares located in Normanville. It can be accessed from any of the park entrances along either Mountain Drive, or Edmund Street, or Mary Street, or James Street, or Banksia Court.
Originally it was part of a larger area of scrub land, located on the red Permian sandhills to the east of the Normanville township and remnants of the original scrub remain on farm land to the west of the juncture of Brooke Place and Norman Avenue. However, over the course of time most of the scrub land, known as Banksia Scrub, became replaced by housing and a small part of the overall housing estate was set aside as the reserve known now as Banksia Park.
Banksia Park, situated behind Mitre 10, is home to the beautiful Banksia marginata some of which are hundreds of years old and in need of some tender loving care.
The Friends of the Banksia Park group is organising some weeding in the park, so sessions are held on the 2nd Saturday of each month from 8.30 am onwards.
If you are interested in helping for an hour or so, please just turn up on one of these dates with your favourite weeding implement.