Garden Demolition Rescue

A HUGE THANK YOU to the 70 volunteers registered for Garden Demolition Rescue - especially the 46 volunteers who were active in the past year! We would not exist without you “making a difference, one garden at a time” 🙏🏼💚♻️

Shout out to all the volunteers working within our partnerships too - Unley Gardener's Plant Rescue, Habitat for Humanity ReStore, Lifeline, Fruit Share Adelaide, Suzanne Elliott Charitable Trust, Awesome Foundation, QT Neighbourhood Node, Human.Kind Studios Ripple Effect Grants and Jack at Nautilus Design 🙏🏼💚♻️

And BIG THANKS to Green Adelaide for your support of our volunteers🙏🏼💚♻️

Thanks 1 Million Women and Audrey Hepburn for this reminder of hope 🙏🏼💚♻️

Useful information re free specific tree removal and pruning…
[Copied from a post on Garden Share Adelaide]

Please sign - https://c.org/tzRvrkS5BJ
It’s not too late 🙏🏼💚♻️
We need more Green, not less! The SA Govt’s own “Green Adelaide” mandate is “working towards a cooler, greener, wilder and more climate-resilient metropolitan South Australia that celebrates our unique culture.”
Source: https://www.greenadelaide.sa.gov.au/about-us
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Thanks to the great team of volunteers at our first garden rescue for 2026! Saved plants and cuttings from a soon-to-be demolished Warradale property. Rescued plants will go to Semaphore Park Community Garden, regional Lifeline stores, Habitat for Humanity ReStore and volunteers’ gardens. Roses, cannas, snake plants, pots and garden pavers were also collected by the legends from Unley Gardener's Plant Rescue on their 6th pick-up for the day!!

Now that the weather has cooled, Garden Demolition Rescue is starting up again!

Please contact us via our website if you have plants to be rescued due to demolition or renovation. We save plants that can be removed by hand-digging - we don’t have the capacity to remove large plants or trees. We do take cuttings and collect seeds too. https://www.gardendemolitionrescue.com/contact

Our first garden rescue for 2026 will be this Saturday. Saving plants such as roses, sword ferns, geraniums, snake plants and other succulents before an old house and garden is demolished 🙏🏼💚♻️

Our volunteers may keep some plants, give some away to friends and family, and/or we donate to Unley Gardener's Plant Rescue and Habitat for Humanity ReStore South Australia 🙏🏼💚♻️

Garden Demolition Rescue | Contact Contact us here if you know of a garden property about to be demolished, or just to say hello!

Christmas Blessings and Best Wishes for New Year 2026! 🎄❤️🎉

Image: South Australian Christmas Bush - Bursaria spinosa 💚❤️

Garden Demolition Rescue is taking a break over the hot summer months, when it isn’t ideal to be digging up and moving plants.
For other options, please refer to Contacts under the Resources tab on our website - https://www.gardendemolitionrescue.com/

Some of the plants saved by Garden Demolition Rescue will be on sale 🙏🏼💚♻️

THANK YOU to all the wonderful Garden Demolition Rescue Volunteers who have helped rescue plants this year! You make a difference 🙏🏼💚♻️

Thanks to the volunteers at Unley Gardener's Plant Rescue, Fruit Share Adelaide, Suzanne Elliott Charitable Trust, Awesome Foundation, Onkaparinga Plant Rescue, The Ripple Effect and Habitat for Humanity ReStore South Australia too!