Canberra Native Nursery

Canberra Native Nursery We're local growers of ‘Canberra tough’ Australian plants. Find us @ CAPITAL REGION FARMERS MARKETS

🌼 As many of you will know, it's Banksia season! 🌼 With their beautiful golden flowers just popping off in the cooler mo...
12/06/2026

🌼 As many of you will know, it's Banksia season! 🌼 With their beautiful golden flowers just popping off in the cooler months. 🤩💛 Returning this week to our stall at the EPIC Farmers Markets is Banksia marginata ‘Bright Flowers’. A naturally occurring dwarf form (from the Victorian high country), it’s around 2m tall max and very cold tolerant. ❄️ And with bright yellow flowers from autumn into winter… it’s a luminous addition to any garden and a naturally dense shrub that doesn’t require much maintenance. 🌼🌳 Just make sure you give it plenty of sun and good drainage and water in drought… and it will reward you by bringing oodles of bird and bees to your place!🐥🐝

Plenty at the EPIC Farmers Markets this Saturday. 👩‍🌾☺️ Capital Region Farmers Market, Canberra



❄️ Brrr, winter has finally showed up! 🥶 But the lovely Correas don't care! 🥰 They are popping off this time of year and...
05/06/2026

❄️ Brrr, winter has finally showed up! 🥶 But the lovely Correas don't care! 🥰 They are popping off this time of year and providing colour splashes around the garden,... as well as a food source for our pollinators and birds, when other plants are off to sleep for the winter. 💤
🌸This pretty pinky is Correa ‘Lucy’ … another awesome, locally bred, Correa (from Bywong) that we have at the EPIC Farmers Markets this week. 🩷 With dainty soft pink bell flowers that light up the whole plant in the cooler months… it’s another lovely Correa to add to your collection! ☺️ Especially great as a present if your giftee's name is ‘Lucy’ ! 😂 💝

🌳A small, naturally dense shrub to around 80cm - 1m, ‘Lucy’ loves morning sun, but protection from the hot afternoon (like most Correas). 🙌 And she’s got no problems with frost & birdies love her! ❄️🐥

🪴Also because she’s pretty and petite... Correa ‘Lucy’ loves growing in pots on balconies! 👏

Plenty of lush ‘Lucy’ on Saturday morning at the EPIC Farmers Markets. 😁

Capital Region Farmers Market, Canberra

🌹 Well the Callistemon subulatus are still having a moment, aren't they! 😍 With the very warm late autumn we are having,...
29/05/2026

🌹 Well the Callistemon subulatus are still having a moment, aren't they! 😍 With the very warm late autumn we are having, and the spot of rain, many of them are still in full bloom and it's nearly winter! 😱 (Pics taken this week).

Callistemon subulatus 'Brogo Overflow' is the one we love, and it's almost bulletproof, even for beginner gardeners, in our experience! ☺️

🌺'Brogo Overflow' is a lovely medium shrub (1-1.5m tall) for a sun to part sun area, isn't' fussy about soil, and makes a great hedge! 🌳 And is happy in a large pot (400mm plus).🪴 And given its naturally fine overlapping foliage, it's good little bird habitat if you keep it pruned regularly. ✂️ And of course when it flowers (in both spring and autumn and longer in a good year), it's great food for the bees, pollinating insects and honeyeaters! 🐥 🐝 🦋 🪲

Got plenty at the EPIC Farmers Markets on Saturday morning. 👩‍🌾


Capital Region Farmers Market, Canberra

🌱 It looks like a gum tree growing out of the ground from a distance, but once you get closer you'll notice that the Euc...
22/05/2026

🌱 It looks like a gum tree growing out of the ground from a distance, but once you get closer you'll notice that the Eucalyptus-like leaves are part of a sprawling shrub to groundcover! 💙 That the Digger's Speedwell (Veronica perfoliata) which is local to our region, and while it looks great in a rockery, cottage garden or border as a low spreading shrub, it starts really humming in summer when it is topped with blue flowers that buzz with bees, butterflies and other local insect pollinators! 🐝🦋🪲 It naturally grows under eucalyptus in cold dry forests, so likes a bit of part sun to part shade to do best, and where it is a bit semi-protected. Even if it gets frozen to the ground in winter, a good prune of the old foliage once the worst frosts have passed and it will sprout forth again... that's how it survives in the wild when it's iced off or chomped. 😉 And it's good to cut it in the warmer months when its foliage starts to look untidy.... you'll get a whole new plant! ✂️ It's a cut-and-come-again plant. 🌱 Growing to around 60cm or so and a metre or so wide, it's also great to grow in a pot and is drought tough once established. 🪴🪻 And those blue flowers are to die for! (albeit they occasionally throw white). 💙🤍

Plenty of this lovely cottage garden plant at the EPIC Farmers Markets on Saturday morning. 👩‍🌾
Also, I am so sorry Queanbeyan Markets folks, but due to access issues with the May market on Sunday (where the markets have been compressed into a corner for this market), and low stock numbers, we won't be at Queanbeyan Markets. So sad about this one. 😞



Capital Region Farmers Market, Canberra The Queanbeyan Market

💛Speaking of wattles, many are just starting bud for spring flowering. With some of the main species in our region, it u...
15/05/2026

💛Speaking of wattles, many are just starting bud for spring flowering. With some of the main species in our region, it usually starts with the Early Wattles (Acacia genistifolia) in late winter, followed by the Silver Wattles (Acacia dealbata) in early spring, then the Acacia rubida (Red-stemmed Wattle) and Acacia buxifolia (Box-leafed Wattle) and Acacia pycnantha (Golden wattle and Australia's floral emblem) in mid spring, and then various others like Acacia gunni (Ploughshare wattle), Acacia melanoxylon (Black wattle - a long lived species) and Acacia siculiformis (Dagger Wattle), culminating with Acacia mearnsii (Green Wattle) in late spring to early summer, and then Acacia implexa (Hickory Wattle - a long lived species) in mid to late summer.

🐝 And of course, for World Bee Day, wattles are an amazing food for native pollinators as they are high in pollen rather than nectar - which means the European honeybees don't tend to favour them as much - and this leaves them for the native insects... as the European honeybees can dominate other high nectar plants to the detriment of native insects. 🦋🪲🪰

📸🌼This one in the pic is Acacia acinacea (pronounced 'ass-in-ace-eeah') or Gold Dust Wattle, which can be found on the Southern Tablelands and north of here up towards Gilgandra. It's a species which is drought tolerant, and absolutely covered in golden blooms in mid spring to the point that you can barely see the foliage - hence the name, Gold Dust Wattle as it looks likes it's covered in it! 💛 A short lived variety, living to around 10 years, its about 1.5-2m tall here, and likes reasonable drainage...but it adapts to clay if you improve the structure of the clay soil when you plant it out (sticks, stones, gypsum, large grade coarse river sand, anything to open up the structure of the soil). 🪏🌱

Plenty of the Gold Dust Wattle at the EPIC Farmers Markets on Saturday morning. ☺️ 👩‍🌾



Capital Region Farmers Market, Canberra The Queanbeyan Market

15/05/2026

📣[sound on] Also, here's some a couple of naughty reasons why wattles sometimes look worse for wear. 🐤😂 Yellow-tailed black cockatoos at our place today...honking on about how good the boring insects are that they have just hacked out of the Acacia dealbata (silver wattle) trunks. 🐛 I mean as pioneer species, silver wattles grow fast and die young, and produce hundreds of babies quickly. So they are good to have around for these beautiful birds, as they replace themselves quickly. ☺️ On the other hand, some wattles can live hundreds of years and have harder wood to survive the knocks, like Acacia pendula (weeping Myall). It's a just bit of an urban myth that all wattles are short lived. 🌳 They are food and habitat for so many species and also fix nitrogen in the soil to improve the ground for other plants around them. What's not to love about wattles! 💛



Capital Region Farmers Market, Canberra The Queanbeyan Market

🎙️ Hooray! 🎉 It's the ABC outdoor broadcast at the Farmers Markets on Saturday morning for World Bee Day! 🐝 And of cours...
15/05/2026

🎙️ Hooray! 🎉 It's the ABC outdoor broadcast at the Farmers Markets on Saturday morning for World Bee Day! 🐝
And of course, we are biased, but the best bit will be Gardening Talkback with Emma and Willo, who would love for everyone to stop by with their gardening questions and discussion of bee tips for your place! 🌱🐝

Please join them and all your community down at the markets on Saturday morning, it's a lovely morning outing for the weekend. ☺️
🦋 And remember, native pollinators (like native bees, wasps, flies, butterflies and beetles) need your help just as much as European honey bees... so plant native plants for them. They've evolved with them and they need each other (pollinators need to eat and have habitat + plants need to be pollinated + and a healthy ecosystem need them all.) 💚💚

Capital Region Farmers Market, Canberra ABC Canberra


☀️ Speaking of flowers on blue sky days… here’s some luminous blooms from our place today in the bright late autumn suns...
08/05/2026

☀️ Speaking of flowers on blue sky days… here’s some luminous blooms from our place today in the bright late autumn sunshine! 💛Banksia spinulosa, ❤️Callistemon Little John and 🩷Grevillea semperflorens all popping off after the drop of rain and brilliant sunshine!

And despite the brief cold spell it’s gunna be back to 20 degrees on Sunday. 😃

Will have Banksia, Callistemon and Grevillea species at the EPIC Farmers markets on Saturday morning. ☺️


Capital Region Farmers Market, Canberra

☀️On this glorious blue day, here’s some glorious blue Wahlenbergia gloriosa! 💙🪻For those who don’t know... it’s the ACT...
08/05/2026

☀️On this glorious blue day, here’s some glorious blue Wahlenbergia gloriosa! 💙

🪻For those who don’t know... it’s the ACT’s floral emblem!! 🥳
Mostly they are single flowering forms with 5 petals, but this is a double flowering form which can be found sometimes in the wild, like a friend of mine saw in Namadgi a couple of seasons back! 👍 This particular specimen here is from the Victorian high country, but they are found throughout the subalpine areas of the ACT, NSW, and Victoria. 🏔️
They like a bit more moisture than some of the lower area Wahlenbergia, and good drainage. They also like a cool root run and a good amount of sun to flower well (preferably at least 5 hours). ☀️
🪴 And bonus!!! They are amazing pot plants!🪴

👩‍🌾 Got plenty at the EPIC Farmers Markets on Saturday morning. A great Mothers Day gift of living flowers, especially for Canberra region Mums. 💝💐


Capital Region Farmers Market, Canberra

🪴PSA: It rarely happens but sadly I won’t be at the markets this weekend due to feeling under the weather. 🤒 So see you ...
01/05/2026

🪴PSA: It rarely happens but sadly I won’t be at the markets this weekend due to feeling under the weather. 🤒 So see you next Saturday bright and early! 🫶

Capital Region Farmers Market, Canberra

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