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*COMING SPRING 2025*
👩🏻‍🌾 Family owned nursery
🌱 Native plants
🌊 lyluequonny Country

23/12/2025

What a year 2025 has been for us... We got married, bought our first home together as newlyweds, started new day jobs that we both love and launched Far South Plants our little native plant nursery! Sometimes we have to pinch ourselves and remember it's only been 12 months.

In the new year we will be taking a short break from markets over January as our day job lives will be more busy. As well as give us some time to catch up on projects we want to bring to you all next year 🌱

Thank you to everyone who has made it out to a market, said hello, maybe even bought a plant or two. It means the world to us 💚 we hope you all have a happy and safe holiday season!

See you in 2026 👋🏻👋🏻

08/12/2025

Spring has come and gone leaving us with all kinds of goodies. The nursery stock is thriving, we've seen all kinds of species flowering on our bushwalks and some are starting to set seed 🌱

But probably the least expected and most precious has been left in one of our Silver Tussockgrass trays where a Superb Fairywren mating pair have made a little home for themselves! For the past couple weeks they have been working away and now we hear the distinct chirping of a little chick inside 🐣 🌞

One of our missions for our work is to help maintain and encourage wildlife habitat so this has been a very special reminder for us to keep up the work!

Safe to say this tray is spoken for and we have been extra cautious as to not disturb the little families activities 💚

05/11/2025

A nice little Spring milestone for us this week as our first Mountain Pepper cuttings have started to flower 🌸

These flowers were made possible from plant material kindly donated from wayraparattee Child and Family Centre 🐞🐣🐛

17/10/2025

Edit: unfortunately due to weather forecast the market has been cancelled. We’ll be at their November market on Sunday 16th ✨

Don't forget we will be at the first Market in the Park hosted by Geeveston Progress Association this Sunday 19th 🌱 hopefully the sunny weather holds out 🌞 see you there!

09/09/2025

🌱✨ We’re launching! ✨🌱

Join us at the Surges Bay Community Hall Spring Market on Sunday, October 5th, 10am–2pm (72 Esperance Coast Road).

We’ll have a small collection of Tasmanian native seedlings ready for your spring garden including Sunshine Wattle, Musk Daisy-Bush, Yellow Dogwood, Silver Tussockgrass, Stringybark, Roundleaf Mintbush and more! Perfect for adding beauty, habitat, and resilience to your patch. 🌿💚

We’ll also be supporting Far South Food Resilience by selling their range of delicious homemade jams & preserves 🍓🥝.

Plus, explore stalls with clothes, books, crafts & more. A great day out for the whole community!

We can’t wait to share this milestone with you and hope to see you there. 💫

👉 Save the date & spread the word!

16/07/2025

'Provenance': The place where a plant's propogation material originated 🌾

It's an important and somewhat misrepresented topic that doesn't get talked about enough in the commercial native horticulture industry...

Why it matters put simply:

🌿 1. Local adaptation
Plants from your LOCAL provenance are often better suited to the specific conditions of your local area — including soil type, rainfall patterns, temperature extremes and seasonal changes. This means they’re more likely to survive and thrive without excessive watering or care.

🦋 2. Supports local ecosystems
LOCAL provenance plants have co-evolved with local insects, birds, and other wildlife. For example, a native bee may rely on the flowering pattern of a particular local ecotype for nectar. Using locally adapted plants helps maintain these ecological relationships and strengthens biodiversity.

🌱 3. Preserves genetic diversity
Using plants grown with seed from LOCAL populations (as opposed to mass-produced cultivars or plants from distant regions) maintains the genetic integrity of those populations. This helps preserve evolutionary potential and resilience in the face of our changing climate.

🔁 4. Minimises risk of genetic pollution
Introducing too many plants from NON-LOCAL provenances — yes, even of the same species — can lead to 'genetic swamping' or an 'outbreeding depression', where locally adapted traits are diluted.

That's why at Far South Plants we grow from local seed wherever and whenever possible! Our seed is 100% Tasmanian provenance but with our seed donor's help we want to one day be 100% from Huon Valley and surrounds!

🌱 Plant smart, plant local! 💪

05/07/2025

Today marks the beginning of the 50th NAIDOC Week, a time to come together in support of First Nations recognition and voice and to celebrate the rich cultures of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

As a non-Indigenous owned native nursery, this week holds special significance for us. It's a powerful reminder that the land we love and work on, land that was never ceded, has a deep and enduring history of care, culture, and connection. The native plants we grow and the ecosystems we aim to support have been stewarded for tens of thousands of years by First Nations people.

Yet, like many sectors in Australia, the native nursery industry has often ignored, erased, or profited from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge without respect or reciprocity. These truths like many tied to our country’s colonialism remain too often unspoken and unaddressed.

This year’s NAIDOC Week theme, “The Next Generation: Strength, Vision & Legacy”, celebrates the history and also the bright future of First Nations communities with the emerging generation of leaders grounded in the guidance of Elders and resilience of ancestors.

Throughout the week, we’ll be listening to First Nations voices, attending events and sharing stories that inspire us in our work. We invite you to do the same.

Find events in your local area via the NAIDOC website:
🔗 https://www.naidoc.org.au/local-events/local-naidoc-week-events

30/06/2025

🌱 Meet Spud — the heart of Far South Plants 💚

Spud (aka Christian) grew up surrounded by bush, rivers and coastline of the Valley. His love for native plants runs deep. After a big career change, he earned qualifications in Horticulture and Conservation & Ecosystem Management — and hasn’t looked back since.

If it has anything to do with growing plants he is responsible. Whether it be monitoring plant health and growth, researching what species to grow next, trialling germination techniques, maintaining the propogation schedule and everything else under the soil... He’s also a visual artist and photographer, and brings a creative eye to every part of the nursery, from our logo design to all the pretty photos you're peeking at! These days he's spending most of his time quietly nerding out over seedling growth in the greenhouse 🤓

So if you’ve got a propagation question or want to chat about local ecology, Spud’s your guy — and he’ll probably have dirt under his nails while he does it 👍

24/06/2025

From little things big things grow 🌱

We’re starting this nursery VERY small… Just the two of us out of our backyard! We have spent a little over a year and a half preparing for this Spring and it has involved a lot of learning along the way.

We’ve turned an old forgotten fernery into a fully functioning greenhouse, we’ve welded our own benches for plants, built a shade house, constructed a potting bench for all our needs, installed irrigation, collected and stored a bank of seeds from multiple locations around the Valley, recording all our propagation data, experimented with germination techniques to see what works best… we even got married along the way! ✨ (see the lovely photography by )

We want this nursery to be sustainable not only in our product but also for us and that means making sure we have a healthy work life balance 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 that means for now we’re starting as small as can be while managing our day jobs and home life. But hopefully one day we will both be able to do this full time.

We want to record our journey along the way for other would-be nursery owners to get a hand up! And you can learn more about that in upcoming posts…🌿

18/06/2025

🌿 Meet Lucy – the brains of Far South Plants!

Lucy grew up in Hobart, where wandering the Hobart Rivulet sparked her early love plants. She's a lifelong gardener, a trained permaculture designer, and a passionate advocate for sustainability and climate resilience 🌞

Lucy is the glue that holds the nursery together — if it has anything to do with the administrative side of running a family business it is thanks to Lucy. With a background in business operations and the food sustainability sector Lucy sees her passion for plants and community as deeply connected 🌱

You’ll find Lucy behind the stall most market days ready to talk garden design, edible natives and all things community resilience 💪

10/06/2025

We want to be more than just a plant nursery 🌱

Our mission is to reconnect people to their environment by growing and selling regionally sourced native plants—ornamental, edible, and ecologically important to the Huon Valley. All of our species are sourced from Tasmanian provenance. But our goal, with your help, is to eventually source 100% of our propogation materials (seed and cuttings) from the Huon Valley and adjacent with multiple provenance sources for each species. By using locally sourced seeds and cuttings we can help preserve and promote the genetic biodiversity of our local ecosystems!

And so with every plant you buy you know you're helping support all those beyond your garden fence.

Let’s grow a better future together 🌾

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http://www.farsouthplants.com/

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