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A place to appreciate, and share information about, Australian Native plants.

This reddit is about Native Australian Plants and Trees. For exotic plants and trees please go to /r/GardeningAustralia

A place to appreciate and share information about Australian flora.


This reddit is about Native Australian Plants and Trees. For exotic plants and trees please go to /r/GardeningAustralia


Questions are welcome here. Not just welcome, encouraged. A lot of us enjoy answering questions, especially when it comes to identifying plants, whether in your garden or in the bush. Please include your location and any other information you have.

Indigenous Nurseries:

ACT

Australian National Botanic Gardens

Cool Country Natives

NSW

Burringbar Rainforest Nursery

Growing Friends Nursery

Harvest Seeds & Native Plants

Mullum Creek Native Nursery

Muswellbrook Forest Nursery

Randwick Community Nursery

Sustainable Natives

Sydney Wildflower Nursery

Wirin Wirra Nursery, Tomerong

QLD

Barung Native Plant Nursery

Bunya Nurseries

Brush Turkey Enterprises

CDTLI Bush Garden Nursery - Townsville

Coolum Community Native Nursery

Forest Heart

Kumbartcho Nursery

Paten Park Native Nursery

SA

Provenance Indigenous Plants

State Flora

TAS

Habitat Plants

Plants of Tasmania Nursery

VIC

Bili Nursery, Port Melbourne

Candlebark Community Nursery

Carrum Indigenous Nursery Inc.

CERES Nursery (Bushfoods)

Frankston Indigenous Nursery

Kuranga Native Nursery

La Trobe Wildlife Sanctuary

Newport Lakes Native Nursery

Otways Indigenous Nursery

St Kilda Indigenous Nursery Co-operative

Victorian Indigenous Nurseries Co-operative

WA

Apace

Lullfitz Nursery

Zanthorrea Nursery

Related subs:

r/ausenviro

r/australianfish

r/australianbirds

r/australianplantswap

r/australianwildlife

r/botany

r/ecology

r/gardenwild

Useful links:

Australian National Botanic Gardens

Conservation Volunteers

Biodiversity of the Western Volcanic Plains

Grow Me Instead

Native or indigenous: do you know the difference?

Nature Share

The flower in the top right hand corner is Chrysocephalum semipapposum, Clustered Everlasting.

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Help - new flowering gum curling?

NSW coast We just got a flowering gum and now a week later it’s curled? Will it die?

1 Comment
2025/01/03
05:43 UTC

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Book recommendations for SA mid north

Hi all, looking to revegetate a property, is anyone aware of a good book for endemic species in the area? We have a lot of gum and acacia already, and looking to put in some callistemon for more bird activity.

Also what sort of plants can I use to encourage reptiles?

2 Comments
2025/01/03
01:21 UTC

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Please help me identify this small tree/shrub😄

6 Comments
2025/01/01
10:03 UTC

4

What’s wrong with my geranium

I live in Fremantle (near Perth)… and the leaves on my geranium has developed transparent patches

14 Comments
2024/12/31
23:39 UTC

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Seed collecting and propagating for native plants

Hi! Finally got my own garden, so I’m a newly native gardener who would love to start collecting seeds and propagating to share with friends and neighbours. Be the change you want to see and all that.

Some plants like everlasting daisies and mulla mulla seem straightforward, but I’d welcome any resources/direction on what can and can’t be propagated and how to germinate when I do? For example, I know some plants need smoke?

Google was a bit overwhelming and unhelpful, I haven’t been able to locate any local gardening groups (might need to start one!) but maybe there’s some good starter resources I’m missing? :)

West of Melbourne, and with limited space but keen to maximize what I do with it.

Any direction appreciated.

19 Comments
2024/12/31
01:24 UTC

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Acaena novae-zelandiae

3 Comments
2024/12/30
11:21 UTC

22

Dipodium roseum

0 Comments
2024/12/30
11:19 UTC

108

Melaleuca nesophila

2 Comments
2024/12/30
08:37 UTC

8

How do I know when my Bananas are ready to pick

24 Comments
2024/12/30
08:32 UTC

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Appleberries! What to do with them?

My Apple berry plant (billardiera scandens) is fruiting prolifically now, and I’ve been harvesting the ripe berries morning and evening for the last few days.

I’ve got about half a cup stored in the fridge, as I thought about making some jam, but half a cup doesn’t really seem like enough to do much with. I could see myself having maybe up to 2 cups, given another week or so. But I’d be worried about the berries going off in the fridge that long.

Anyone got tips for what to do with them? Should I just start freezing them as I harvest them, until I’ve got enough to make a jam?

Also, if anyone has some neat jam recipes (or other recipes) for apple berries, I’d love to know! I haven’t been able to find much at all on Google, and CoPilot/Google seems to think I’m talking about some other plant entirely (or talking about mixing apples and berries together).

Located outer east Melbourne.

3 Comments
2024/12/28
23:06 UTC

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Correa dying Brisbane

I planted a Correa in a space that is in shade until 12pm and then full sun for the rest of the day, along with some midgim berries, brachyscome multifida, and leptospermums. The Correa was about 15 cm high and a bit root bound. I didn’t tease out roots because I read that natives don’t like that, might have been a mistake idk. These were planted just before the last burst of rain in mid December (I know that’s not ideal don’t @ me lol)

Everything else is going gangbusters but the Correa is dying. What do you think, wrong place, wrong time, other factor? If I have made a mistake then it is what it is, but maybe I shouldn’t go for another Correa in this position. I haven’t planted them before.

I have a scant 30cm of excellent dirt that I put down over horrible clay.

Not a huge deal over a single plant but I would like to know how to garden better. Might just be don’t plant in summer 😜

Also, autocorrect keeps capitalising Correa because our Chilean friend’s name is Correa and I don’t want to edit it :)

2 Comments
2024/12/28
10:50 UTC

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Can anybody identify this tree ?

Never seen this cross weave pattern under the bark of a tree before

11 Comments
2024/12/28
04:07 UTC

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What is this plant?

This is a rescued seedling and I’m still trying to work out what this plant could be. Google image search suggests that it could be crabapple or some sort of plum?

3 Comments
2024/12/27
11:46 UTC

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