How to grow Australian

Listings and information on growing native plants, where to find such plants, and online resources pertaining specifically to ropagating, growing and harvesting domestic native produce.

My own garden's progress can be tracked here.

Nurseries, seed savers etc

Updated 4.10.05
  • Guruna Nursery. Mostly mail-order but now has a market stall in Marrickville (Sydney). Excellent and knowledgable resource. Recommended (my native ginger, raspberry, muntries, rock fig, and mint came from there).
  • Eden Seeds. Has a small selection of native plants among its extensive collection of old-fashioned, non-GMO, and sometimes organic seeds.
  • CERES Bushfood and Permaculture Nursery. Melbourne, Victoria. No mailorder service currently. Excellent list of bush tucker plants.
  • Sydney Wildflower Nursery Heathcote. Sydney, NSW. Small ssection on bushfoods; very knowledgable staff to visit. Some of my midyimberries were sourced from there.
  • Australian native plant nursery. Marsden, Sydney, NSW. Large range, mentions some bushfoods on the site. According to website, has ground and dried herbs for sale at the office.
  • SEED WORLD AUSTRALIA PTY LTD - International Seed and Plant Merchants. Suppliers of Australian native seeds for nursery and revegetation purpose, native grass seeds, Eucalyptus and Acacia specialists. Lists are by botanical name.
  • The Illawarra Grevillia Park. A show place for Australian flora. Bulli, NSW.
  • Australian Native Edible & Medicinal Seed Service. A part of Guruna Nursery in Sydney. Seed supplies only. Extensive list of bushfood seeds; excellent catalogue with common as well as botanical names.
  • Herbs & Cottage Plants Nursery. Specialist retail nursery stocking a selection of bushfood plants and cottage style natives, as well as non-native herbs and cottage plants. Hurstbridge, Vic.
  • Randwick City Council Nursery. The Community Nursery is one of Sydney's leading indigenous nurseries, supplying local provenance plants, and other native and exotic species that are ideally suited to the soils and climate of the eastern suburbs. Randwick, NSW. Got my midyimberries and cutleaf mintbush from there.
  • Bushnuts Nursery. Wholesale propagation nursery specialising in Australian rainforest and rainforest margin species. Tallebudgera Valley, Qld.
  • Mother Natures Bush Tucker. Company focusing on the propogation and use of bushfoods. Has a wildlife refuge and native plant forest for visiting. North Tumbulgum, NSW.
  • Daleys Nursery - Fruit, Nut and Rainforest trees. Has a complete section on bushfoods, plus an excellent list of industry contacts for bushfoods. Kyogle, NSW.

Online resources

Updated 4.10.05