Growing Friends Spring 2024 Native Plant Sale

The Growing Friends will hold their Spring Native Plant Sale on Saturday 12 October in the car park between the Banksia Centre and the Crosbie Morrison Building.  While a little later than last year, this still allows sufficient time for plants to be established before the challenges of summer.

The sale will run from 9:00-11:00 (unless sold out earlier). As regular attendees know, demand is high and stock moves very quickly.

A full list of the plants and their descriptions (PDF, 516 KB) is now available..

The sale includes a variety of groundcovers and small and large shrubs suited to the Canberra climate as well as some species better suited to the South Coast of NSW.

There will be:

• a good selection of banksias, including Banksia ericifolia “Red Clusters” which has long red flower spikes in autumn and winter and is a good screening plant;
• numerous pots of the beautiful, structural grass tree Xanthorrhea johnsonii with its 1.8 metre flower stalk; and
• many varieties of correas, grevilleas, leptospermums, myoporums, prostantheras and thryptomenes, including species endemic to the ACT. These plants will add interest to gardens year-round as well as providing floral resources for pollinators.

All plants for sale are propagated by the Growing Friends from cuttings or seeds sourced from the Australian National Botanic Gardens with the support of ANBG staff. Plants will only cost $6 each with payment by card. Proceeds from sales go to support the Gardens via the Friends of the ANBG.

Prospective buyers are encouraged to socially distance and bring their own carry bags and boxes.