We invite holidays home owners in the Margaret River region to attend this free arum lily control workshop to help in the fight against the toxic invasive weed.

The free workshop will be held at the Margaret River Community Centre on Saturday August 24th from 2 to 3.30 pm to give holiday homeowners the knowledge, inspiration and free herbicide to tackle arum lilies on their property.

“We see the amazing impact it can have when a whole street or community does arum lily control, and we also see how just one landholder can let down the neighbourhood by not controlling arum lilies. It means the seed easily spreads from one property and it can undo the hard work of neighbours,” said Arum Lilly Blitz coordinator Genevieve Hanran-Smith.

“That particularly applies to absentee landholders who aren’t always around to see the problem and might not have the time to carry out arum lily control. If you have a holiday home anywhere in the Margaret River region, particularly on a bush block or rural property, we’d love to see you at our free workshop to learn more about this weed and see a practical demonstration on how easy it is to carry out arum lily control.

Arum lilies hail from South Africa and are particularly devastating in WA’s South-West because they outcompete native flora, reduce habitat and food availability for wildlife, and change entire ecosystems with a dense and toxic monoculture. The plants spring up from underground tubers in winter and their tall white flowers appear in spring. Applying a targeted herbicide during flowering is the only effective way to control them on a large scale.

The Arum Lily Blitz is funded by the WA Government's State Natural Resources Management Program.