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WA Tree Festival

Celebrate SJ’s renowned natural beauty with us over the next month as we join the WA Tree Festival!

The WA Tree Festival is a WALGA initiative sponsored by the Department of Water and Environmental Regulation and a community celebration of trees in the state’s urban areas and beyond. This festival highlights the vital role trees play in creating greener, healthier, cooler living spaces.

Come celebrate our trees with walks, workshops and children’s activities – plus, vote for SJ’s favourite local tree species and help us find the shire’s widest tree!

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When is it?
What's on?
Vote for your favourite local tree species
Find SJ's oldest and widest tree
Significant Tree Register
Planting native trees at home?
- Treebate
About WA Tree Festival

When is it?
Saturday 11 April - Saturday 10 May.

What’s on?
The Shire has teamed up with Landcare SJ and local community groups to put on a few events over the next month. You can also view these events by going to our Community Events Calendar or by downloading the PDF below.

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Event	Date	Description
Nest Box Building Workshop	10/04/2026	Join Landcare SJ at their Nest Box Building Workshop and help increase the number of homes available for our local fauna. After this workshop, you can take your box home. SOLD OUT
Nest Box Building Workshop	16/04/2026	Join Landcare SJ at the Mill Manager’s House to build nest boxes for the possums and bats of Gooralong (Jarrahdale) Heritage Reserve. There will also be a short info session on local fauna and the need for nest boxes. SOLD OUT
Night Walk Jarrahdale	16/04/2026	Dr Drew and the Landcare SJ team will take you on a night walk around one of our most beautiful reserves. Learn about our native trees and the nocturnal wildlife they support. BYO torch. SOLD OUT
Nest Box Building Workshop	18/04/2026	Join Landcare SJ at their Nest Box Building Workshop and help increase the number of homes available for our local fauna. After this workshop, you can take your box home. SOLD OUT
Yoga Under the Trees	21/04/2026	Join Sylvana from Yoga on the Farm for a gentle yoga and meditation session under the trees. Suitable for all ages.
Dieback Treatment 1	22/04/2026	Learn how to protect local Jarrah trees against phytophthora dieback. Landcare SJ and the Tonkin Extension Alliance are holding an event at Paterson Reserve.
Craft & Storytime Under the Trees	29/04/2026	Bring your little ones to along to have crafts and storytime under the trees! Kids will enjoy hands-on activities and listen to a story under the shade.
Brickwood Reserve Walk	03/05/2026	You're invited to join Friends of Brickwood to discover some of the magic of nature at work as part of a guided walk through our Byford bushland gem of Brickwood Reserve.
Jarrahdale Heritage Walk	06/05/2026	Join the Heritage Society for an easy walk through Jarrahdale Heritage Park. You’ll see examples of our famous local tree species such as jarrah, redgums, rudus and snottygobbles, and visit the new plantings and 701 Café for morning tea.
Dieback Treatment 2	10/05/2026	Learn how to protect local Jarrah trees against phytophthora dieback. Landcare SJ and the Tonkin Extension Alliance are holding an event at Paterson Reserve.

Vote for your favourite local tree species!

We want to know which of our amazing native trees is your favourite and why. Cast your vote now!

Serpentine Jarrahdale is located within a globally recognised biodiversity hotspot, home to an incredible variety of unique plant life. Because there are so many species, we couldn’t include them all in the vote.

We narrowed our list down to ten iconic local tree species. Which one do you like best?

View the candidates and cast your vote

Find SJ’s widest and oldest tree!

Help us find SJ’s widest and oldest tree. Put in your candidate and go into the running for a $15 voucher from Australian Native Nurseries.

Learn more about the competition

Significant Tree Register

Did you know the Shire has a Significant Tree Register? The register provides an important step in a process to record, recognise and protect trees that are special or significant, and to promote special trees that characterise the Shire.

Residents who are aware of a tree in the Shire of Serpentine Jarrahdale that they think is special or significant can become Tree Trackers and nominate it for assessment against the criteria for inclusion on the Shire’s Significant Tree Register.

Find out more here

Planting native trees at home?

We’ve written a handy guide to picking the right plant for your property.

Read our guide to choosing the perfect tree

Don't forget your Treebate!

Don’t forget that 10,000 West Australians each year until 2029 can get a $150 cash rebate on the purchase of native trees. This is part of the State Government’s ‘Treebate’ program, which aims to help re-tree Perth to combat the effects of urbanisation, climate change and the recent arrival of the polyphagous shot hole borer. It’s as easy as one, two, tree!

Treebate supports the State Government’s commitment to increasing urban canopy to 30 per cent by 2030 as part of the first-ever Urban Greening Strategy launched in January 2026.

About the WA Tree Festival

The 2026 WA Tree Festival is sponsored by the Government of Western Australia, with the support of WALGA and Perth NRM.