Community Nursery Project

Revegetation season begins again

Posted at 23 Jun 2017 at 00:39h in 20 Million Trees, Community Nursery Project, Eaglehawk Waterhole Habitat Restoration Reserve by Rose Thompson

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With the arrival of winter, revegetation plantings have begun around the region with seedlings from NGT's nursery being used in multiple projects. 2017 is the final year of our 20 Million Trees reveg project at Eaglehawk Waterhole, during which we will have planted over 15000 seedlings...

The varied role of NGT’s Community Nursery

Posted at 15 Mar 2017 at 12:11h in Community Nursery Project, Media, News by Mark Bachmann

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The second NGT update in the latest edition of From the Ground Up (on page 8), gives a snapshot of the varied role of NGT's Community Nursery - from experimental propagation and revegetation techniques, to producing plants that help bolster populations of some of our...

NGT Nursery update – including remaining native wildflowers for sale

Posted at 09 Jan 2017 at 23:08h in Community Nursery Project, News by Rose Thompson

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Ryan and I have been working together to keep the nursery ticking along while we work towards the next planting season. We have recently sown a LOT of seeds for various reveg projects, including several grass species. Currently we have the following for sale:Feather-heads (Ptilotus macrocephalus) - now flowering...

NGT Nursery bids farewell to Yvonne

Posted at 06 Dec 2016 at 12:00h in Community Nursery Project, News by Rose Thompson

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After two and a half years of overseeing production in our indigenous plant nursery, nursery manager Yvonne Riley finished up with us last week. Yvonne initially joined the nursery team as an intern in 2013, and took on other roles with NGT such as open...

Wildflowers make a great Christmas present

Posted at 06 Dec 2016 at 11:59h in Community Nursery Project, News by Rose Thompson

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What better gift could there be than the gift of colour, interest, and diversity? We can help you with this! Native wildflowers make a great addition to any garden, and can even be grown in pots. Pop into the nursery or email Rose () to see what...

NGT community nursery staff learn about native grassland restoration

Posted at 27 Nov 2016 at 18:49h in Community Nursery Project, News by Rose Thompson

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Yvonne and I recently made a quick trip to Melbourne to attend part of the 11th Australasian Plant Conservation Conference. We were particularly interested to take part in a field trip to learn about native grass seed production and see if there were any lessons that could be applied to...

Portland group enjoys our butterfly workshop despite the weather!

Posted at 27 Nov 2016 at 18:48h in Community Nursery Project, News by Rose Thompson

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A small group of dedicated community members were not deterred by the winter-like weather (13'C, rainy, and windy) on Sunday 13th November, but braved the conditions to venture out to our native butterfly workshop at the Portland Community Garden. The community garden Landcare group had...

Beautiful local native wildflowers now for sale from the NGT nursery – come and see us today!

Posted at 02 Nov 2016 at 23:57h in Community Nursery Project, News by Rose Thompson

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A selection of native wildflowers are available for purchase from our nursery in Mount Gambier. Growing locally indigenous native plants is a great way to support native wildlife including insects such as butterflies and bees. Please see the thumbnails below of the species available (click...

Kids have a great time making wildflower seed bombs

Posted at 02 Nov 2016 at 23:56h in Community Nursery Project, News by Rose Thompson

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A group of 19 young people recently enjoyed a novel school holiday activity: creating native wildflower seed-bombs! Nursery staff, Yvonne and Rose, ran the school holiday workshop on 13 October at our nursery in Mount Gambier, with participants ranging in age from two to 12.During...

Second interim propagation report for the NGT nursery now available to download

Posted at 02 Nov 2016 at 23:56h in Community Nursery Project, News by Rose Thompson

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One of the important roles of the NGT community nursery is to conduct research into propagation techniques for species which are generally not available in existing commercial nurseries. Discovering germination cues - "cracking the code" - or other important propagation information, will eventually lead to an increase...

Community Nursery Project

Revegetation season begins again

The varied role of NGT’s Community Nursery

NGT Nursery update – including remaining native wildflowers for sale

NGT Nursery bids farewell to Yvonne

Wildflowers make a great Christmas present

NGT community nursery staff learn about native grassland restoration

Portland group enjoys our butterfly workshop despite the weather!

Beautiful local native wildflowers now for sale from the NGT nursery – come and see us today!

Kids have a great time making wildflower seed bombs

Second interim propagation report for the NGT nursery now available to download

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