Margaret River Community Nursery

21/06/2026

Plant Sales

We are a small wholesale nursery (awaiting a new site to be able to better meet demand).

We do not sell retail, however you can purchase our stock from Lazarus over the winter period (until it is all gone)

We will take wholesale orders for the 2027 reveg season in September.

We will have very limited capacity so will be prioritising orders for public places and those orders received in September, which give us the capacity to plan or propagation best.

Thank you for your interest support and patience whilst we find our feet and our perfect new home, so that we can provide the plants required for revegetation in our local area.

14/06/2026

This is where you can buy our plants…. Don’t miss out.

28/05/2026

Do you want to be a part of a community planting? 🌱
Montessori have a community planting next weekend at their Metricup site, Harper would love you to join them.
See the flyer below for details and make sure you register.

12/05/2026

Sam from Lazarus Nursery is the latest customer to have picked up plants from the nursery. He and his staff will be nurturing them and they will be available for the public to buy from Lazarus when they have grown a bit more.

06/05/2026

We are thrilled that local students are so passionate about being custodians of this amazing place that we all get to call home 🍃

We are looking forward to hosting the Year 6 class from St Thomas More.

Community growing, community giving, community caring 🌱💚

We’re thrilled to share that the Margaret River Community Nursery is donating native plants to support our Our Patch schools education program — helping the next generation of environmental stewards bring their projects to life.

These carefully grown, endemic species will head straight into the hands of local students, who are already hard at work planning and planting for nature across the region.

🌿 At Cowaramup Primary, students are creating habitat for possums.
🌿 Margaret River Independent School is focused on food and shelter for cockatoos.
🌿 Margaret River Primary School students are planting to help protect species like Hairy Marron, Margaret River Burrowing Crayfish and Snake-necked Turtles along the Wooditjup Bilya.
🌿 St Thomas More students will grow on seedlings for a biodiverse legacy garden, bringing nature back into their school grounds.
🌿 Rapids Landing Primary is working to protect Darch Brook from sediment.
🌿 And across Augusta Primary School, students are replacing woody weeds with endemic species to restore local bushland.

“We’re delighted to be the very grateful recipients of these carefully grown endemic species,” says Our Patch officer Lauren Scanlon. “The kids will put them to good use enhancing habitat, protecting waterways, restoring degraded bushland and bringing beauty and biodiversity to their schools. It's so exciting to see the community nursery go from strength to strength and what a gift to the wider community to provide these plants to our local schools. Win win!”

This is what community-powered conservation looks like — local people growing plants for local kids, who are growing a healthier future for nature 🌏💧

05/05/2026

Orders have started being collected which is great to see. Last week Declan McGill, Project Officer for Stream Restoration, W**d Control, and the Regenerative Agriculture in Practice Program (RAPP) for the Lower Blackwood Land Conservation District Committee (LCDC) collected a healthy batch of plants.

16/04/2026

We received some lovely feedback (see below) from one of our volunteers the other day and others said this really resonated with how they felt as well.

"I really appreciate the goals of the community nursery and everyone's interest commitment and the professionality of the "blue peggers". Everything seems well organised and I feel that my time here is well spent. I enjoy learning about plants and propagation and I value the social aspect."

It definitely summaries all the reasons why I love being a part of the Community Nursery.

05/04/2026

Sedging - verb, to propagate sedges. OK this verb doesn’t actually exist - but quite a few volunteers are obsessed with sedges and did invent the word.
Sedges (and rushes) refer to species from the grass-like families Juncaceae, Restionaceae and Cyperaceae. They occur in a wide range of habitats, from estuarine to desert, but are particularly important in wetlands. They have shallow spreading surface roots, which bind the soil and reduce erosion which is one of the major constraints to successful river restoration.
Rushes and sedges are also pivotal to water quality improvement of wetlands. Their soil binding properties and growth habit means they are excellent at slowing the rate of water flow and trapping sediment within waterways.
Dense stands of rushes and sedges planted along the foreshore or buffer areas of a wetland also trap soil and water run-off from adjacent land, which in turn limits nutrients entering waterbodies. Many species further improve water quality by acting as ‘nutrient-strippers’, accumulating significant amounts of nutrients in stems and rhizomes (underground stems), and supporting bacterial transformation of nutrients and other pollutants on their extensive root and rhizome mass. Source: Water & Rivers Commission

29/03/2026

Karri moth - Aenetus dulcis. OK I know that this is not a plant, but hear me out. These beautiful moths are found in our region and their larvae are dependent on the peppermint tree (Agonis flexousa). Pictured here is a female - the males are a paler green. They can be found in our region in autumn - spotted some at Dear Darnell’s this week at night. So keep a lookout for them - they are a large moth with a 11cm wingspan. Photo Geoff Byrne (iNaturaliste)