Seeing natives in gardens and reserves
There are some wonderful places to visit to see native plants, both in their natural world, and in public gardens.
Public native gardens in Sydney region
The Australian Botanic Garden at Mount Annan
Joseph Banks Native Plants Reserve at Kareela
Ku-ring-gai Wildflower Garden at St Ives
Stony Range Botanic Garden at Dee Why
Sylvan Grove Native Garden at Picnic Point
Illawarra Grevillea Park at Bulli
Public native gardens outside Sydney
Booderee Botanic Gardens, Jervis Bay
Burrendong Botanic Garden and Arboretum, Mumbil, near Wellington
Eurobodalla Regional Botanic Gardens, Batemans Bay
North Coast Regional Botanic Garden, Coffs Harbour
The Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra
Stories
Below is a selection of stories about some of these public places.
District Group support
Our District Groups support many community places, working closely with the community to share our knowledge and passion for Australian plants and their habitats and make plants available to the public.
Examples include
- Blue Mountains Group holds an annual spring show at the Glenbrook Native Plant Reserve, a two hectare site containing a rich diversity of mountain flora as well as a native plant nursery.
- Coffs Harbour Group is a contributor to the North Coast Regional Botanic Garden, which features forests and plants indigenous to the Coffs Harbour area, as well as rare and endangered plants of Australia.
- Menai recently expanded its nursery, The Compound Nursery, and enhanced the landscaping at Illawong Rural Fire Station.
- Newcastle operates a nursery at the Hunter Wetlands Centre.
- North Shore supports the Ku-Ring-Gai Wildflower Garden in St Ives, an area of mostly natural bushland and two endangered ecological communities. The Society runs regular ‘walks and talks’ through the Garden
- Northern Beaches supports the Stony Range Botanic Garden in Dee Why, a six hectare sanctuary of beautiful native plants and amazing sandstone landscapes, originally a disused quarry.
- Nowra is a long-running exhibitor at the famous Berry Garden Festival, holding plant sales to inspire like minded people to grow native plants.
- Sutherland Group is a long running supporter of Joseph Banks Native Plants Reserve at Kareela, which in 2017 received a $5,000 federal government Stronger Communities Programme grant, matched by Sutherland Group, to produce over 20 interpretive signs for the Reserve.