Did you know that to offset the carbon emissions of an average vehicle for a year it takes roughly 15 trees to be planted? Servicing Geelong, and the many towns in the surf coast communities in Victoria, means we travel many miles with our mobile showroom to our customers’ businesses and homes. To help offset this, we are proud to partner with Fifteen Trees
We are reducing our carbon footprint by supporting Fifteen Trees’ native tree planting regenerative projects, not only with trees but with the all important tree guards too.
In 2017, there were approximately 53.7 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions produced by the manufacturing industry in Australia. Knowing that the manufacturing industry is a big polluter, Designer Blinds To You made a conscious decision to ensure they are doing something to counterbalance those emissions.
To date, we are proudly responsible for 170 new trees planted in collaboration with this fantastic iniative!
Our latest tree plantings:
Westgate Park, VIC | 30 trees | 2026
Tucked beneath the lanes of the Westgate Bridge, one of Melbourne’s busiest and most recognisable highways, a park is growing. Westgate Biodiversity is a not-for-profit organisation on a quiet mission to bring native bushland back to one of the most industrialised pockets of the city.
The group grows and sells locally indigenous plants to home gardeners, schools and revegetation projects across Melbourne’s west, while simultaneously restoring Westgate Park into the kind of layered, biodiverse native landscape that this part of the city has never really had since before European settlement.
The most recent planting, thanks to Designer Blinds To You added a wonderful diversity of native species to the site – Heath, Golden, Lightwood and Coastal wattles, three varieties of sheoak, Grey and Marsh saltbushes, a range of correas and a rich selection of eucalypts including River Red Gum, Yellow Gum, Ironbark, Swamp Gum and Manna Gum.
Together, these species will create something far greater than the sum of their parts. Flowering and fruiting at different times across the seasons, they’ll provide a year-round supply of food and shelter for birds, insects and small mammals moving through this emerging wildlife habitat. Over time, Westgate Park will become a genuine biodiversity corridor in the heart of Melbourne – a place where nature has quietly, stubbornly reclaimed its ground.
East Otways, VIC | 30 trees | 2025
The native trees, shrubs and grasses were planted at the old Bambra Tip site, located in Bambra Bushland Reserve (managed by Parks Vic.) Gadubanud country. This tip was created after the Ash Wednesday fires for landholders to dispose of burnt fences and damaged property. The tip was capped years ago but was overrun with pasture weed. Members of the East Otway Landcare Group (EOLG) been working to rehabilitate this site since 2020 with the aim to turn it back into the healthy bushland that surrounds it.
Twenty-seven (27) people attended the planting day. Which is a great turnout for the small community and very important for community connection as there is always a deep sharing of knowledge that occurs through working together and sharing morning tea.
Some of the species planted on the day included, Sweet bursaria, Messmate, Narrow leaf peppermint, Hop goodenia, Dogwood, Snowy daisy, Red anther wallaby grass, Pale rush, Black wattle, Blackwood, Scent bark, Swamp gum, Tall sedge and Red fruit saw sedge.
We are incredibly grateful for the support we received. We were able to get plants in the ground this season, the species all grown from seed collected locally and selected to support biodiversity and habitat creation. Having a local business invested in the health of remnant bushland is such a hopeful act and inspires us to keep plugging away. It has been such a lovely exchange for our group and a new way of working, as we are generally reliant on grants through government bodies to help us continue the work we do. We hope to have the opportunity to work in this way again.
Cara Johnson | President | East Otway Landcare Group
The group are mending small, degraded patches of bushland with great success and by carefully selecting the right plants for the right places, this project is contributing to a healthy seedbank while caring for crucial wildlife refuge (the Bambra bushland).
At the site, gang gang cockatoos regularly visiting to feed on messmate flowers, there are bandicoots, echidnas, swamp and bush rats, countless birds and powerful owls feed in the reserve. In the past few years, there have been sacred kingfishers nesting in the bushland The tip site seems to be a haven for tiger snakes, which are welcomed, and where there are snakes there are frogs and lizards. Every plant, animal and bird is precious in this area and the group do everything they can to protect them and prioritise habitat.
For more information on the incredible work Fifteen Trees and Designer Blinds To You collaborate on read more here.
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