It is that time of year again, when we Seasonally Close our Nursery for walk in sales.
Details of remaining stock available on our Nursery Plants page, and ordered online for local pick up via our Store page.
If you wish to make an appointment or have a query, you can call or text message away on 0458 38 1628, or email us .
We’re looking forward to some exciting upgrades to our shade house in 2025, revamping our infrastructure for an even better plant selection in 2026. While seedling production will be paused next year (2025), we’ll still be offering selected plants, our heirloom seeds, honey, tours and volunteer opportunities.
Thank you to all our customers, supports, volunteers and team for your continuing support and interest in our work, from the team at Drylands Foundation.
We grow local natives plants and provide advice for revegetation and landscaping projects to help conserve and enhance the natural biodiversity here in our Midwest region of Western Australia, as part of our environmental mission.
For 2018, thanks to our team and volunteers we grew over 15,000 pre-ordered seedlings for projects in Geraldton, Chapman Valley, Irwin Shire, Northampton, Greenough, Murchison and Kalbarri.
This included front coastal plants for foreshore protection and enhancement, plants for nature play and bush tucker school gardens, creek line revegetation and stablisation; and environmental community group projects.
We also grow and sell a wide range of Australian and Midwest native plants (over 120 different species) direct to gardeners, property owners and farmers.
Drop into our Nursery for a browse or you can view our range from our Nursery Plants page.
Fiery Bottlebrush (Callistemon pheoniceus) – a large Bottlebrush shrub that can be planted within two to three meters of each other to build a colourful red flowered and dense wind break, that also functions as bird and bee fodder.
Responses well to pruning and cutting back to maintain density. We grew our stock from hardy species growing in the Murchison region of our Midwest.
As a coastal windbreak its hard to look past the Dongara Mallee (Eucalyptus obtusiflora) for planting in alkaline sands around Geraldton. These low growing gums (3m x 3m) are often bushy to the ground (although they grow larger in the northern wheatbelt) . They can be easily under pruned to create a canopy. Mallee means multi-trunked trees, hence they provide a wide coverage in a windbreak. This white summer flowering species copes well with the strong winds that our Batavia Coast is famous for.
Read more on our local Gums, including the Dongara Mallee in Malcolm French’s fantastic book ‘Eucalypts of Western Australia’s Wheatbelt‘. Photo in this post from Malcolm French’s book.
Jam Trees (Acacia acuminata) – Looking for attractive small shade and screening trees in a native garden setting? Look no further, with low leaf fall and suited to loams, gravels and clay soils, this is one of our favourites.
It’s timber is very hard and termite resistant. Back in the days, they were used as fencing posts. Now more likely to used as craft wood or as host trees for Sandalwood.
We are often asked the best way to start a garden in an urban or semi-rural property including growing fruit trees and vegetable gardens in our challenging windy climate.
The first step is to establish windbreaks. Slowing down and redirecting hot, desiccating easterlies and buffeting south westerlies, improves both livability of your home, increases your successes with orchard plants which need a wind sheltered microclimate to grow well, and save your own sanity!
Two or more lines of shrubs and trees are better than one, with increasing height of the inner line to ‘ramp up’ the wind over your house and garden.
In our nursery we grow and sell a range of windbreaks trees that we have used on the farm that suit our climate and soils. In the following posts we’ll highlight a few of our favourites including Jam Trees, Dongara Mallees, Fiery Bottlebrushes and Swamp Sheoaks.
Check out our stocklist on our nursery page for a list of currently available species.
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