In 1978, one year after its formation, the Mount Lawley Society undertook a project to beautify the Mount Lawley railway station by the planting of WA native species on the embankments in a lead up to the WA 150th Anniversary the following year. In January 1978, the Committee agreed to write to the Commissioner of Railways offering help in landscaping and planting at the Mount Lawley railway station.

A planting scheme drawn up by Society member Jeff Currie was then accepted by Westrail in preference to their own plan and, in August 1978, Westrail provided 40 plants free of charge and promised to install a tap at the station. City of Stirling also gave 50 plants.

These were then planted and the September rains produced many green shoots in the native plants at the station. White Grevillea biternata flowers and pink everlastings were first to be seen and Melaleuca fulgens attracted birdlife back in to the area.

The Society President, Don Urquhart, said at the time that the plants should maintain themselves if they survived the summer. Don was the founding President of the Mount Lawley Society and lived at 26 Park Road, Mount Lawley, until his untimely death in March 1980 at the age of 39 yrs.

Sadly, over recent years and following station and bicycle path upgrades, the embankments became increasingly barren but an attempt to revegetate the station in 2018 was thwarted by bureaucracy.

One day … maybe !