Sugar Gum Day

12/11/2025

Start the countdown to Christmas with the lighting of the community Christmas tree in Stirling Square Guildford, also home to magnificent Sugar Gum trees.

🌟🎄🌟🎄🌟🌲🌟🎄🌟🌲🌟🎄🌟🌲Save the date - Sunday November 30 at 6PM is the lighting of the community Christmas tree in Stirling Square, Guildford. Pack a picnic and enjoy joyful singing and free family fun in the lead up to the countdown to flipping the switch at sunset! 🌲🎄✨🌟
Organised by St Matthews Guildford WA with support from City of Swan and Steve Catania MLA.
Free parking at Guildford train station car park, enter via Johnson Street.

10/10/2025

We’re hosting a free community festival 📣📣📣 Think live performances, guest speakers, family activities, giveaways, face painting, community stalls and delicious food trucks 🥳🥳

Learn about local projects to care for country and how to get involved with conservation and citizen science. Loads of our mates will be there plus some very special guests!

Mundaring Garden and Farmers Market will be right next door and Mundaring Hills Open Studios opens that day, so it’s going to be a great day up in the hills!

Shout out to our event supporters: Inspiring Western Australia, Scitech, Department of Jobs Tourism Science and Innovation, Saferight, Community Bank Mundaring, Shire of Mundaring, and our wonderful event and research partner, Edith Cowan University (ECU) 🙏💙

Special thanks also to our amazing event manager, Fleur from Perth Hills Events 🤩🤩

To learn more, visit www.bibbul.org

29/01/2025

If you enjoyed Duo Retrovo at Sugar Gum Day with Cindy Dean Vocalist don’t miss the chance to catch her Olivia Newton-John tribute act coming up in the Swan Valley on Valentine’s Day!❤️

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07/11/2024

Mandoon, the place of many trees… it will always be a fight to ensure it remains that way.

26/10/2024

A timeline outlining the history of the historic Sugar Gum trees in Guildford, Western Australia, planted in 1897 for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee and th...

25/10/2024

Out on a Limb is a documented oral history of the saving of the Sugar Gum trees in 1999, featuring interviews with the main campaigners of 1999. Produced by Guildford Association Inc members Ward Hellewell and Hazel Johnson, this is the story of a “David and Goliath” battle.

People involved in the 1999 campaign to save the Guildford Sugar Gum trees from destruction share their recollections.Music:Far Away by Sarah Jansen / sara...

18/10/2024

One week after celebrating the saving of Guildford’s Sugar Gums… and here we are again

18/10/2024

Don't let the sun go down on these magnificent flooded gum trees at 7 Fauntleroy Street Guildford. Join us for a snap rally at 5pm in Fauntleroy Park today to help stop them from being destroyed. The six mature trees had been guaranteed preservation when the house on the same property was demolished in 2022, but now things have changed. Plans for a large childcare centre to be built on the site are before City of Swan Council, if approved, not only will the trees be destroyed, but parking issues in the already congested area will multiply. Enough is enough!

18/10/2024

A week on from our celebration of the saving of the Sugar Gum trees, more Guildford trees need to be saved.
ABC Perth Echo Newspaper

17/10/2024

If you joined us at sunset, chances are you would have been offered a Sugar Gum mocktail, prepared by long standing Guildford Association Inc member and past president, Barbara Dundas.
In the hours leading up to the event, Barbara carefully sourced and prepared locally grown ingredients for her mocktails, which were appreciated by all, especially our hard working volunteers!
Barbara has shared her recipe with us, and we are delighted to announce that we will be serving her Sugar Gum mocktails at the Guildford Association AGM on November 28 at St Matthew’s Hall.
Thank you, Barbara, your mocktails were an absolute delight!
Captured by Emily Wilson Photography