Stringybark Nursery
Opening Hours
Tuesdays 3.30 pm to 5.00 pm
Thursdays 1.30 pm to 3.00 pm
Please note the nursery is run by volunteers. While we all do our best, there may be some days we just can’t get here. If that’s the case for you today, many apologies.
Please email us on
[email protected]
Opening Hours
Tuesdays 3.30 pm to 5.00 pm
Thursdays 1.30 pm to 3.00 pm
Please note the nursery is run by volunteers. While we all do our best, there may be some days we just can’t get here. If that’s the case for you today, many apologies.
Please email us on
[email protected]
Or email [email protected] for questions/appointments (when available)
Latest News
April 2024
We’re changing the way we work.
We’re finding that we are growing a whole load of plants on spec which often go unsold.
As a way of keeping the nursery running so the facilities are available for many years to come, we’re encouraging people to sow their own – for their own projects or as part of a Landcare or other group. This also helps to share our knowledge more widely – a sort of co-op arrangement.
Here’s how it will work –
• Collect your seed. Don’t know how? Ask what seed we have in stock or order from the suppliers below*. NB – we only support the growing of plants that occur in the area naturally – ie are indigenous. If you’re uncertain, ask us for advice
• Make a time with us on a Tuesday or a Thursday to come and sow your seeds, with guidance if necessary. This will involve a donation of $10 to cover seed and seed raising mix (which we make ourselves)
• Leave your contact details and sown seeds with us and we will let you know when they germinate. NB – the time seeds take to germinate varies greatly – it’s not like growing veggie seedlings. Very occasionally they may fail to germinate
• Then make a time to come and help prick them out (this means separating the tiny seedlings into their own pots once they are big enough). If they can’t be completed in one session we’ll give you some options
• Leave the plants with us for a few months where they’ll be watered and looked after while they grow on and then collect
• Donate a small percentage – say 5-10% - of your plants back to the nursery (helps us keep a seed bank)
• For a few hours of your time, you can end up with hundreds of plants costing next to nothing (most nurseries charge at least $3.50 per tube)
Email us at [email protected]
https://www.theseedcollection.com.au
https://www.victoriannativeseed.com.au
https://www.seedingvictoria.com.au
https://apsvic.org.au/native-seeds/
We’re changing the way we work.
We’re finding that we are growing a whole load of plants on spec which often go unsold.
As a way of keeping the nursery running so the facilities are available for many years to come, we’re encouraging people to sow their own – for their own projects or as part of a Landcare or other group. This also helps to share our knowledge more widely – a sort of co-op arrangement.
Here’s how it will work –
• Collect your seed. Don’t know how? Ask what seed we have in stock or order from the suppliers below*. NB – we only support the growing of plants that occur in the area naturally – ie are indigenous. If you’re uncertain, ask us for advice
• Make a time with us on a Tuesday or a Thursday to come and sow your seeds, with guidance if necessary. This will involve a donation of $10 to cover seed and seed raising mix (which we make ourselves)
• Leave your contact details and sown seeds with us and we will let you know when they germinate. NB – the time seeds take to germinate varies greatly – it’s not like growing veggie seedlings. Very occasionally they may fail to germinate
• Then make a time to come and help prick them out (this means separating the tiny seedlings into their own pots once they are big enough). If they can’t be completed in one session we’ll give you some options
• Leave the plants with us for a few months where they’ll be watered and looked after while they grow on and then collect
• Donate a small percentage – say 5-10% - of your plants back to the nursery (helps us keep a seed bank)
• For a few hours of your time, you can end up with hundreds of plants costing next to nothing (most nurseries charge at least $3.50 per tube)
Email us at [email protected]
https://www.theseedcollection.com.au
https://www.victoriannativeseed.com.au
https://www.seedingvictoria.com.au
https://apsvic.org.au/native-seeds/
A bit about us
Stringybark Community Nursery was established following the 2009 bushfires with funding from the foundation for Regional and Rural Renewal (FRRR). It was intended at first to help fire-affected landowners in St Andrews, Christmas Hills, Strathewen & Arthurs Creek source free plants that were of local provenance for revegetating gardens and bushland. Over the first three years we distributed around 3,000 plants.
While we were lucky to secure funding to prepare the site, erect the shed and build the fence, all other work has been undertaken by amazing volunteers – installing watering systems, building shelves, stocking the nursery with pots, potting mix etc as well as regular weeding, gutter cleaning and other ongoing maintenance.
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We have also supported several local Landcare groups, schools and kindergartens by supplying them with plants for various projects. We hope to be involved in propagating and supplying plants for landscaping around the Blacksmiths’ Tree in Strathewen.
Tube stock now costs $1 per tube. We are situated behind the Community Centre in St Andrews (The Old School), next to the multi-purpose room of St Andrews Primary School. There is parking on the left immediately before the bridge off School rd. To view our current stocks click on the link below – please note they change quickly. If you have a specific revegetation project come and talk to us. For further information regarding the nursery please email [email protected]
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Current Plants Available
