Our annual nature strip plants give away is on again, with 4500 beautiful small plants ready to put down roots out the front of your home.
Our nursery team have carefully tended 65 native and non-native plant species, including grasses, shrubs and even a runnerless alpine strawberry, delicious to eat and great for garden borders.
You have four weeks to apply for up to 20 free plants for your nature strip!
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Nursery team Chris Barton, Erin Fazarkerley and Julia Schmid with nature strip plants.
Erin Fazarkerley and Julia Schmid from our nursery team both adore our free nature strip plants program.
"I love working on this program as it provides us at the nursery a chance to connect directly to the community we serve and to make a positive difference on the street appeal of the city," says Erin.
"It is also a wonderful program for increasing biodiversity within urban areas.
"I love walking through our suburbs to see how people are bringing their nature strips to life with our beautiful plants."
What will you plant in your nature strip garden?
Chrysocephalum apiculatum
A hardy, low maintenance ground cover with silvery grey foliage and bright yellow button flowers. This plant is a good food source for butterflies and other insects. The flowers provide a beautiful pop of colour in the garden and can also be picked and dried for use in floral crafts.
Themeda triandra
Themeda, commonly known as Kangaroo grass, is both stylish and extremely beneficial for wildlife. It offers grey green leaves beautifully contrasted by the reddish-brown flower spikes. The flowers attract butterflies and the seeds are a popular food source for blue tongue lizards.
Fragaria vesca
Alpine strawberries are a wonderful cool climate strawberry option. The fruit are smaller than other common strawberry varieties but have an intense and sweet flavour, along with strong perfume. Excellent flavour for cooking and drying, that is if you can resist eating them all fresh.
Grevillea ‘Charlies Angel’
Small, compact ground cover with dark green foliage and impressive red to yellow flowers. Grevillea flowers are an absolute magnet for birds and other nectar feeding wildlife.
Kennedia prostrata
Commonly known as running postman or scarlet coral pea, Kennedia is a fast-growing hardy ground cover. Useful for erosion control and weed suppression. The bright red pea flowers attract many different pollinators and the leaves provide important habitat for smaller insects.
Thryptomene saxicola
This low growing shrub is beautifully scented and flowers profusely for long periods of the year. They are popular for cut flowers as well as providing important habitat and food for wildlife.
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