Our Council Our Community COMMUNITY REVEGETATION NURSERY

Our Community Revegetation Nursery grows more than 300 locally native plant species for revegetation projects. The plants range from small garden and landscaping plants to large rainforest trees.

Species vary seasonally and from year to year depending on seed germination and other environmental factors.

Plants are currently $7.20 each and we have discounts for bulk purchases and approved restoration projects. Fees are adjusted annually and a pot-return discount is applied to the restoration rate. Find out more at trc.qld.gov.au/fees-charges

Plants can be ordered up to 12 months in advance and species and pot sizes can be grown to order.

Our customers generally purchase plants for revegetation projects, including habitats for Southern Cassowaries and Lumholtz’s Treekangaroos, and windbreaks. Talk to our staff to learn how to select, plant, grow and maintain local plant species, and to find the best plants for your project.

The nursery is at Winfield Park on Lake Barrine Road, near Malanda, and is open 8am–4pm on Tuesdays, except public holidays.

Join us at the nursery for our free community open day at 9am–3pm Saturday 22 April! We’ll be having fun activities including making seed balls, quizzes, games, and plant and fruit identification. You’ll also find out about volunteering at the nursery, and can buy plants at our sale.

The Community Revegetation Nursery Business Plan was completed in late 2021 and we have been working to implement the 11 opportunities it identified. We have reviewed and improved our production processes, refreshed our local and regional networks, doubled our volunteer program, reviewed species list and pricing, and increased promotion of the opportunities the nursery provides to the community. It’s important that our community is aware of the significance of high biodiversity landscape restoration and revegetation.

Follow us on socials to see our monthly plant profile. In April it’s Riberry Lilly Pilly Syzygium leuhmanii. This fast growing, medium-sized ornamental rainforest tree has glossy green foliage; fluffy, cream-coloured flowers; and large pink fruit. The fruit can be eaten fresh or used in sauces and jams. Riberry Lilly Pillies are great for hedging and windbreaks, and attract bees, butterflies and birds.

Would you like to help out in our nursery?

We welcome and appreciate volunteers on Tuesdays and Thursdays. There is a wide range of tasks including:

• processing seeds for propagation and storage

• potting seedlings into tube stock

• moving stock through production areas

• maintenance

• repairing or creating materials

• cleaning workspaces, pots and other equipment record keeping, data entry and other administrative tasks

• plant health maintenance. Find out more and apply at trc.qld.gov.au/volunteer

Head to trc.qld.gov.au/communityrevegetation-nursery to find out more!

• Revegetation in the Wet Tropics including project planning, site preparation, planting and maintenance.

If you’ve got native fruit or seeds, please collect them and drop them at the nursery. The fruit and seeds will contribute to revegetation projects in our region.

1. Collect fruit and a branch (to confirm identification). Don’t take everything — leave some for the critters.

2. Take the fruit and branch to our Community Revegetation Nursery.

3. If no-one is there, leave them at the gate in a bag or container that you no longer need, and include a note about where and when the fruit was collected.

• What our nursery has achieved over the last 30 years including contributing to projects that create critical wildlife corridors, repair heavily disturbed areas and reduce the amount of sediment being transported to the Great Barrier Reef.