The Plantiness of Sydenham encourages you to walk the vital industrial lands of Sydenham, envisaging the neighbourhood in more than human ways. Contribute to an online collaborative map or pick up a printed map during Creative Trails. We will be working with the ever brilliant local illustrator Ella Cutler to design the printed map.

There are many examples of ‘gardens’ that exist on the edges of this industrial zone. These gardens reveal that people living and working in Sydenham transform public space by creating small pockets of local ecologies. Examples include ornamental plants kept on driveways, pockets of native grasses, insect-attracting verges, and many food producing plants growing in public spaces in the area including guava, chilis, banana, papaya, loquat, and lemongrass, as well as several properties that are hosting veggie gardens in raised beds.

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‘The Plantiness of Sydenham’ was funded by Inner West Council as part of EDGE Sydenham 2021 and Midjuburi (Marrickville ward) Creative Trails.