A special garden will delight all five senses of Wollert Secondary College students and staff thanks to the help of the team delivering safer, more-reliable travel with the Epping Road Upgrade.
Project team members rolled up their sleeves at the college on Friday 2 August when they participated in a working bee to help plant the 34m2 sensory garden.
Each of the garden’s five spaces contain plants chosen to stimulate a specific sense, either sight, smell, hearing, touch or taste.
Interactive and immersible, the garden will provide students and staff with an area of peace and retreat.
Along with their time, project team members also donated materials and resources to help bring the sensory garden to life.
The college’s 25 student gardening club members dedicated two lunch breaks a week to prepare the garden area in the lead-up to the working bee.
The garden complements the college’s bee hotels, which project team members also helped build last year to foster local populations of native bees.
The garden’s plants will provide suitable pollen for the bees, which comprise seven species.
The garden and bee hotels reflect the aim of the Epping Road Upgrade to leave the community with lasting legacies beyond transport infrastructure.
Once the upgrade project is complete, students and staff will enjoy safer and easier travel to the college with an additional lane in each direction on Epping Road and improved walking and cycling paths.
The project is adding lanes in each direction between Craigieburn Road East and Memorial Avenue. It will also improve six intersections and deliver better connections for walkers and cyclists.
The project’s improvements will provide safer, more-reliable journeys for the 35,000 drivers who use Epping Road daily in Melbourne’s north.
The upgrade is due for completion in 2025.
Major Road Projects Victoria is delivering the project with construction partner McConnell Dowell.
More information about the Epping Road Upgrade is available on our Epping Road Upgrade project page.