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The Drylands Permaculture Nursery

Locally Owned, Locally Grown

Welcome to our Nursery

We are a specialist propagation nursery operating from The Drylands Permaculture Farm in Waggrakine, Geraldton, Western Australia.

We propagate and grow to order, local native and multi-use permaculture plants in sizes that range from seedling tubestock to 20 litre bag stock.

Our customers include farmers, gardeners, landscapers, mining companies and community groups who require quality plants and professional advice suited to their climate and soils.

Our plants can be purchased from our nursery during opening hours or ordered & locally collected using our on-line Store page.

Latest News

Seasonal Hours May 2026

May Open Hours for Nursery. Thursday til Saturday. 8am to 2pm. Other days by appoinment.

2026 Early Release Plants

2026 Early Release Natives tube stock and Fruit Trees. More seasonal Native tube stock to be announced and available in May.

Flowering Shrubs on our Farm

Flowering Hakeas, Sennas and Grevilleas Shrubs around our Permaculture Farm.

Revegetation on our Permaculture Farm

Seasonal Revegetation and its benefits at the Drylands Permaculture Farm.

Local Native Plants for Revegetation and Landscaping Projects

Seedlings and Plants for Revegetation and landscaping projects in the Midwest.

Windbreaks for Geraldton – Fiery Bottlebrush

Fiery Bottlebrush (Callistemon pheoniceus) – Colourful Red flowering shrub. Great screening and windbreak shrub.

Windbreaks for Geraldton – Dongara Mallee

Drop in to our nursery for tubestock of sun hardened Dongara Mallees. These are great coastal windbreak and screening mallee trees that suit alkaline soil, that also grow well further inland.

Windbreaks for Geraldton – Jam Trees

Acacia acuminata – Commonly known as Raspberry Jam Tree, an excellent small windbreak and privacy screening trees. On our farm, our Jam trees provide shade for our goose and chicken pens, and provide forage for our bees.

Windbreak Trees and Shrubs for Geraldton

Protect your gardens and sanity. Windbreak selection for Geraldton and Midwest Western Australia. Featured photo shows section of our easterly windbreak around our Food and Seed Gardens, with dual use interior firebreak and vehicle track.

Catalogue - Current Stock Plants

Price List - Current Stock Plants

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I buy plants from you?

You can buy direct from our propagation nursery during seasonal walk-in sales open hours, by arranging a time outside of open hours by calling us on 045 38 1628 or by using our on-line Store page.

We sometimes are able to attend and sell our plants at local markets.

Do you sell plants to interstate and overseas customers?

No, sorry we only sell plants for our own Geraldton and Midwest region of Western Australia.

When will you next get.....?

We sell only what we grow ourselves, and do not stock/sell plants from other nurseries.

We grow seasonally and do our best to provide a large range of plants.

Our largest number of plants is generally ready to coincide with the arrival of our winter rains.

Do you sell citrus, avocado and mangoes?

While we grow and sell a good range of fruit trees including Figs, Brazilian Cherries, Pomegranates, Tropical Guavas and Grapes but we do not grow and sell avocados, apples or nut trees like almonds.

Do you sell palms?

Sorry we don't grow and sell palms (except Jelly Palms)

We can however provide you with other tree and plant options which may suit your property and garden.

Do you sell Fertiliser?

No but we can recommend options for you which we are familiar with, and provide you with some guidance on mulching and composting etc, when you visit us.

Do you sell Vege Seedlings?

Sometimes we have the capacity to offer vegetable and herb seedlings grown from our own heirloom seeds.

Please call on 0458 38 1628 in regards to availability or check out the Seedling Tab on our Store Page.

Reasons to Buy Our Plants

Locally Owned

Since 1989, we have been growing to order and selling plants, in particular local natives and permaculture plants as a locally owned and operated independent propagation nursery.

Grown with Care

We hand sow all our seeds and hand weed all our plants and use integrated pest management within the nursery.

Our seedlings are grown in 50x50x125mm tall 'forest tubes' produce air-pruned long linear root systems that lead to high planting success rates.

Our advanced plants are raised in white bags which prevent root spiraling and improve their recovery when planted.

All our plants are sun and wind hardened before sale.

We use rainwater to raise our seedlings but switch to scheme water as they grow and are hardened. This allows the plants to adapt to the water quality in our region.

We only sell our seedlings when they are big enough to handle the real  world with good root growth and vigour.

Grown to Order

We can grow to order. We need to have orders placed in December or January.

Our tube stock is raised during summer ready for sale in autumn and winter to coincide with our regions seasonal rainfall periods.

Call us on 9938 1628 for more information on contract orders.

Fair Price and Trusted Advice

We produce quality plants priced for value and good growth. Prices are listed on our stocklist, and vary according to the size and cost of propagation.

As a not-for-profit we reinvest funds from plant sales in local employment, the development of our demonstration farm, implementation of our conservation activities and education.

Our nursery provides students, trainees and volunteers with valuable working experience in plant propagation.

We have years of experience and pass that experience onto our customers when they choose to buy plants from us.

If you are unsure of your garden needs, bring along a rough plan and we can recommend plants which will suit your needs.

Useful Links for Midwest Flora

Top 10 Trees for Geraldton

Produced by City of Greater Geraldton

Coastal Gardens Guide

Produced by Northern Agriculture Catchment Council (NACC)

Inland Gardens Guide

Produced by Northern Agriculture Catchment Council (NACC)

Trees and Shrubs of the Northern Wheatbelt

Produced by Northern Agriculture Catchment Council (NACC)

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Calling out for more

Calling out for more six pack boxes to recycle… Empty (or full!) As you can see they are fabulous carry boxes for our tubes.
The nursery May hours are Thursday to Saturday 8.00am - 2.00pm.

These species are now available in addition to the plants listed on last week’s post Drylands Permaculture Nursery.

Tennis ball Pink Passionfruit
Mother of Herbs
Jani’s Carnavon Pawpaw

FOREST TUBES:
Limesand Acacia - Ac. lasiocarpa
Knobby Club rush - Ficinia nodosa
Rottnest Island Teatree - Mel. lanceolata
Snow Queen Coolibah - Euc. victrix

Please park by the big blue mailbox, walk in and shut the gate to keep rabbits out and our animals inside.
No dogs sorry.

Mb: Johnny 0458 381628
333 David Road, Waggrakine.
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May 7th, 7:25 pm
MAY OPEN HOURS -  Th

MAY OPEN HOURS - Thurs to Sat: 8am - 2pm
Here is the list of species ready this week: (more to come every week.)

WHITE BAG STOCK:
Coastal Jackbean $19.80
Boabs $29.50
Jingyamia Mallee - Euc. synandra $24.50
Red river Gums - Euc. camaldulensis var. arida $19.80.
Tuarts - Euc. gomphocephala $19.80

FOREST TUBESTOCK - our retail tubestock prices vary and start from $5.50 each.

TREES:
Coral Gum - Euc. torquata
Desert Kurrajong - Brachychiton gregorii
Dongara Mallee - Euc. obtusiflora
Greenhead Mallee - Euc. oraria
Illyarie - Euc. ethryocorys
Leucoxylon Rosea - Euc. leucoxylon var. meglocarpa
Long horn Mallee - Euc. dolichocera
Murchison Bloodwood - Corymbia lenziana
Rose Mallee - Euc. rhodantha
Sandplain Mallee - Euc.eudesmoides
Silver Princess - Euc. caesia var. gungarru
Weeping Myall - Ac. coriacea
Yellow Flowering Yuna Mallee - Euc. jucunda

SHRUBS:
Chenille Honeymurtle - Mel. huegelli
Cockie’s Tongues - Templetonia retusa
Fiery Bottlebrush - Callestemon phoenious
Fine leaf Honey Murtle - Mel. filifolia
Flinder’s range Wattle - Ac. iteaphyllla
Graceful Honeymurtle - Melaleuca radula
Greenough Gold Bottlebrush - Mel. megacephala
Lilac Hibiscus - Alyogine huegelii
Kalbarri Skywalk Jacksonia - Jacksonia cupulifera
Kalbarri orange HoneyMurtle - Mel. fulgens
Pink Poker Grevillea - Grevillea petrophiloides
Native hibiscus - Alyogine cunieformis
Native Hop Bush - Dodonea inaquifolia
Old man Saltbush- Atriplex nummularia
Robyn’s Dwarf Acacia - Ac. leptospermoides
Tarcoola Pink Murtle - Mel. campanae
Western Honey Murtle - Mel. nesophylla

GROUNDCOVERS:
Grey creeping saltbush- Atriplex cinerea
Ribbon Pea - Leptosema aphyllum

VINES:
Cape Arid Kennedia - Kennedia beckxiana

FRUIT TREES:
African Marula (Cider) trees, Grapes, Pawpaws, Pineapples, Pomegranates, Mulberries, Pomegrantes and Custard Apples, Red Dragon fruit (Flamefruit) and Moringas also available.- Various sizes and varieties

📍 Drylands Permaculture Nursery, 333 David Road, Waggrakine
📞 Johnny: 0458 381 628

Park by the big blue mailbox and walk in the gate behind the tree. Please keep the gate closed to keep the rabbits out. No dogs please.

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April 30th, 8:17 pm
🌿 First official

🌿 First official open day this season – this Friday! 1st May 2026.
MAY Opening Hours: Thurs–Sat, 8:00 am – 2:00 pm

Good morning!!

With Bushfires at the front of my mind after our recent events, I decided to run an OPENING SPECIAL on our MARULA trees.

✨ 1.2 m high Marula plants (non-grafted) – $44 each

I’m offering these as a bushfire-area planting special for people looking to introduce more resilient shade trees around homes and properties. We’ve found Marulas have remarkably fleshy limbs that tend to sizzle rather than flame, hence on the farm here, we are gradually using them to replace some of our more flammable trees closer to buildings.

ABOUT MARULA

After seeing Marula on a trip in the Kalahari Desert 30 years ago, I brought back an improved selection of seed. I could see its potential for our Geraldton permaculture conditions — and over the years it has proved to be a fascinating and very useful tree.

Marula is best known for its fruit, which naturally ferments quickly and is used to make the famous Marula beer in many Southern African countries. Some of you may have seen the well-known clips of wildlife devouring the fallen fruit! The fruit is also used to make Amarula Cream Liqueur.

The fruit can be eaten fresh straight from the tree or made into cordials or beer. Inside each fruit is a nutritious kernel (though it takes a bit of effort to extract).

Marula trees are:✔ Deciduous✔ Heat loving✔ Very drought tolerant
✔ Excellent shade trees for dry climates

They’re also a favourite summer perch for our resident Tawny Frogmouths 🦉

🌱 To get fruit you need male or female plants (you need one of each for fruit). We can only determine the sex from our grafted plants. The plants on special are not grafted. Grafted plants are available - $130 each.

Pickup from the nursery only (Sorry — no interstate orders)

📍 Drylands Permaculture Nursery333 David Road, Waggrakine📞 Johnny: 0458 381 628

Park by the big blue mailbox and walk in the gate behind the tree. Please keep the gate closed to keep the rabbits out. No dogs please.

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April 29th, 7:30 pm
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Contact Details

Drylands Foundation
333 David Rd (North), Waggrakine
Geraldton,Western Australia 6530

Tel. (08) 9938 1628
Mob. 0458 38 1628
Email.

ABN: 60 163 754 943

Seasonal Hours

Please Call  0458 38 1628

The Drylands Foundation

The Drylands Permaculture Farm, is managed by the Drylands Foundation, a not-for-profit environmental organisation.

The Foundation utilises the Farm, to promote and demonstrate environmental sustainability and conservation through social enterprise.

Photo: Bee pollinating Rosemary © J. Firth 2011

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