The south east region of New South Wales has a vast array of climates and landscapes from the wet, humid coastal regions to the dry, hot landscapes inland. The people running the nurseries have developed different skill sets that reflect the needs of their local groups and Landcare projects.
On this page you will find a list of Landcare affiliated nurseries and groups involved in direct seeding operations. The aim of this resource is to connect people in the business of buying and selling native plants propagated by Landcare groups and to connect people doing similar activities in the region. The idea for the page stemmed from a meeting of Landcarer’s hosted by South East Landcare in May 2023.
This is not an exhaustive list, if you are doing Landcare nursery work in this region and want to be listed on this page please contact us.
Photo Credits: Alex James and Merryn Carey
Lyn Clark
Email: [email protected]
Location: Berry
Expertise and interests: Propagating local provenance rainforest species from seed and recording successful propagation techniques.
Linda Cavanagh
Email: [email protected]
Location: Boorowa district
Expertise and interests: Boorowa Landcare has experience in direct seeding operations in inland areas and has a direct seeder for contract sowing.
This network has four volunteer run native plant nurseries, each has a slightly different focus but they all strive to work towards growing climate ready seedlings. The YAN nurseries specialise in native plant cutting workshops, native plant germination testing, using smoke water to assist seed germination, nursery recording systems and spreadsheets, tray labelling and promotion. The main focus of the nurseries is propagating climate ready plants for dryer climates.
Kath McGuirk
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://yan.org.au/projects/yan-native-plant-nurseries
Bango Bowning-Bookham Landcare Group
Judy and Graeme Fountain
Email: [email protected]
Location: Bango
Murrumbateman Landcare
Gill Hall
Email: [email protected]
Located in Murrumbateman behind the Murrumbateman Fire Shed
Yass Landcare
Kath McGuirk
Email: [email protected]
Location: 1428 Yass Valley Way, Yass behind Yass Community Centre
Wattle Valley – Bowning-Bookham Landcare
Linda Thane
Email: [email protected]
Emma Rooksby, Chair Landcare Illawarra
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://www.landcareillawarra.org.au/about/
Expertise and interests: Landcare Illawarra nurseries grow plants for the revegetation of Threatened Ecological Communities in the Illawarra area under licence from the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service. The plants are used for revegetation projects and are not for sale to the public. If you have a project involving revegetation of a Threatened Ecological Community in the Illawarra area, or are interested in plant propagation or buying local plants, please contact Landcare Illawarra directly by email.
Location: Illawarra Region – Wollongong/Kiama/Shellharbour Local Government Areas
Sybille Davidson
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.miltonlandcare.org/
Expertise and interests: Growing subtropical rainforest plants.
Location: 14 Deering Street Ulladulla
Merryn Carey – Seedbank Coordinator
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.fscl.org.au/projects/seed-bank/
Expertise and special interests: Seed collection and storage for Southern NSW plant species. Merryn also runs South Coast Flora, specialising in growing southern NSW tubestock, the nursery is located in Dignams Creek and sales are at the Candelo, Morouya and Bermagui local markets.
Location: Dignams Creek, NSW
Kelly Stubbs
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.wagtailnativesnursery.com.au
Expertise and special interests: Cold climate plants for the Cooma area, social enterprise for growing local native plants. Works with Upper Snowy Landcare and Cooma Landcare.
Location: Snowy Monaro Region, Cootralantra NSW 2628
