19/09/2025
Happy Friday Manning Landcarers!
Perhaps you're interested in this plant giveaway?
🌳🌳 Red Cedar (Toona ciliata) seedlings, free to a good home!
The Plant Hope with Red Cedars project is an initiative of the Inner Newcastle Parish Community Garden in Tighes Hill. It aims to give away at least 1,000 Red Cedar trees to individuals, families, schools, parishes and community groups who have land to plant the trees.
🌟🌟This project has generously donated over 200 trees to MidCoast2Tops Landcare and its membership. 🙏🙏
Australian Red Cedar (Toona ciliata) was first discovered in rainforests soon after European settlement about 10 km from Parramatta and has played an important part in the natural and cultural history, as well as the economic development of Australia. By 1798 it was the colony’s third largest export.
Once plentiful in NSW and Queensland rainforests, cedar proved easy to cut, cure and transport, and useful for building, joinery and furniture. As early as the 1790s the government was aware of the possibility of destroying too much timber, yet by the 1870s cedar was scarce in NSW.
Red Cedar (Toona ciliata) prefers well-drained, moist, and rich soils with a pH range of 5 – 6.5. It can tolerate a wide range of soils but prefers slightly acidic soils. The tree is drought-tolerant and can tolerate heat, frost and moderate salinity. It prefers full sun but can tolerate partial shade. It is one of Australia’s few native deciduous trees, with the leaves falling in autumn (late March) and growing in spring (early September). The new leaf growth is reddish pink in colour.
Please contact Jonathon on [email protected] if you are interested in providing a home to these beautiful trees.
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