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Canberra Native Nursery, Carwoola, Carwoola (2026)

21/06/2026

My partner: “Smells good - what’s for dinner?’ 🍳
Me: “umm… are you a Black Cockatoo?” 😂

🥜So here’s our quick hack if you need more Banksia seed in your life, and don’t have time to wait for the cones to mature and release its seed (which can sometimes take years). 🥱

Cones + Fireplace/hot oven + Fire tongs/gauntlets🥜🔥🧤

🥜 Banksia have evolved with bushfire. 🔥 Because of this, they have a survival strategy to fully open their ‘follicles’ (the knobbly bits on the cones that hold their seed) in a fire and release all of their seed, even if the cone isn’t quite mature. 🌱This helps them make lots of babies after the fire has passed and ensures their population’s survival. 💪

🥜 So this hack simulates that natural process. Heat up in your oven or on your fireplace, cook the cones until you see the unopened follicles start to open and viola! The seed is released. 🫘

🔥Fireplaces are great because they also start the burning process on the outside of the cone, (with the various smoke chemicals it produces), helping with future seed germination. 💨

Just make sure you use PPE including fire tongs or gauntlets! 😁

🐥And Banksia are an important food source for our yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos (who also help ‘prune’ our mature Banksia integrifolia for free!) The cones in this example are from our mature Banksia integrifolia trees on site after the cockies had a feed and a prune. 😂🌳 The poor Eastern Spinebills were unhappy their nectar rich flowers were being blocked by the cockies going for the seed! 😂

Such a great habitat tree. Love Banksia so much. 🌳💚

Capital Region Farmers Market, Canberra

19/06/2026

🌺 Meet Callistemon ‘Better John’! 🌺 It’s a progeny of the ever popular Callistemon ‘Little John’, but a faster grower and more compact, with better disease resistance.💪🌳Growing to around 60cm – 1.2m high x 60 – 90cm wide, with blue grey foliage and hot red flowers from spring into summer, it’s a great little hedge or feature plant. It needs very little pruning given its naturally dense form, but a tidy up with the secateurs in the warmer months, keeps that lush soft foliage coming, and stimulates flowering in its season. ✂️ ❤️🌹
And of course being a bottlebrush, it’s a hit with the birdies and bees! 🐝🐥

Likes a sunny position to flower best, and tolerates most soils. Frost tolerant once established, but protect now if planting out.

Plenty of these lovelies at the EPIC Farmers Markets this Saturday morning. 👩‍🌾

Capital Region Farmers Market, Canberra

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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