In March 2018, the “Gazania Free Goolwa” campaign was launched to encourage residents within the township of Goolwa to remove gazanias from their gardens and roadside verges.

After the Gazania Free Goolwa campaign, Council remained committed to encouraging our community, not just in Goolwa but in the whole district, to control gazanias and other declared weeds in their gardens and on their roadside verges. As a result, the campaign was rebranded Gazania Free Gardens in 2019, with a focus on Middleton. The Gazania Free Gardens campaign ran through April and May 2019 and included a community planting day, coastal garden design workshops and a plant swapping initiative where residents could trade in Gazanias removed from their gardens for a free six pack of native plants.

Gazania-free Gardens was a collaborative project between Alexandrina Council, the Adelaide and Mt Lofty Ranges Natural Resources Management Board, the Goolwa to Wellington Local Action Planning Association, Middleton Town and Foreshore Association and Alexandrina Community Nursery.

The campaign was an initiative from Alexandrina’s Environmental Action Plan, and was in direct response to Alexandrina Council’s “Thrive in Clean Green Futures” strategic objective.