Please ... if you can spare an hour or two to help out next Tues 18th July or Wed 19th July, or the week after, to clean Banksia seeds, we would love to see you! We are preparing for our spring seed...
Wildplants to the Rescue
12/07/2023
An encouraging article was recently published about the nursery on the website of the Katoomba Local News. On a very cold but sunny morning recently, reporter Liz Durnan visited the nursery and...
Native Ground Orchids
24/06/2023
Frances Scarano here gives us a glimpse at some of the efforts she has been making to rescue and translocate some of our native ground orchids, and to propagate them too. There are about 1200...
Rescued Lomandra obliqua
17/05/2023
These pretty plants are cousins of the everyday lomandra you see everywhere. They live in shallow sandy soils in heathlands and open forests, or on rocky slopes. Growing only 20cm high and sprawling...
Spring Festival, Springwood
14/05/2023
Save the Date! September 2nd, 9am-4pm Once again Wildplant will have a stall at the Springwood Spring Festival. Hope to see you all there!
NEW T-Shirts
14/05/2023
Just arrived, a new batch of our T-Shirts. We now have them in 3 colours: light grey, dark grey, and a new WHITE one. We also have a small number of long sleeved t-shirts, in dark grey only. They are...
Mountain Devils Ready!
16/03/2023
As of today, March 16th 2023, a very small number of Lambertia formosa are ready for planting. These plants are difficult to propagate as we NEVER get any seed to try, and previously our cuttings...
Epacris pulchella
30/12/2022
Epacris pulchella A limited number of Epacris pulchella, in 140mm pots and larger, are ready for re-homing. These were rescued from Blackheath due to essential repairs in bushy areas. Many were later...
Extra Help needed
25/11/2022
Hello Wildplanters, We have an abundance of seedlings in desperate need of pricking out. If you can manage anytime soon to help out for a few hours at the nursery it would be really appreciated....
The Great Attractor: Why Planting a Bottlebrush Will Bring Wildlife to your Garden
29/10/2022
By Tessa Barratt The Bottlebrush is a well-known and iconic plant among Australians. Named after its resemblance to a bottle cleaner, the genus Callistemon contains around 50 species (depending on...
