HUGE PLANT SALE IN MARCH!!!
ONLY WHILE STOCK LASTS
To help us raise much needed funds to get us through the next few months until our orders are picked up and paid for, we are selling off all of our ready-to-plant eucalypts, wattles and other large tubestock. Check out our special sales area for a wide range of shrubs and trees for only $2.00 each, including the following species:
| Golden Wattle | Candlebark Gum | Common Cassinia |
| Hedge Wattle | Red Box | Musk Daisy-bush |
| Prickly Moses | Yellow Box | Rough Bush-pea |
| Blackwood | Green Scentbark | Tree Everlastinng |
| Black Wattle | White Stringybark | Plum-leaf Pomaderris |
| Hop Wattle | Red Ironbark, Mugga | Clustered Pomaderris |
| Cinnamon Wattle | Long-leaf Box, Bundy | Woolly Pomaderris |
| Myrtle Wattle | Messmate | Plum-leaf Pomaderris |
| Gold Dust Wattle | Swamp Gum | Shiny Cassinia |
| Varnish Wattle | Brown Stringybark | Swamp Daisy-bush |
With the right site preparation and care throughout the warmer months, these plants will establish quickly. Make sure you aerate any compacted earth to a depth of at least 30cm, water in well and add a thick layer of eucalypt mulch. Check for soil moisture during hot weather and deep water as needed. Once established, no more watering!
New webpage!
The new Candlebark management team have developed a webpage that contains a wealth of information and links to resources to help our members, volunteers, customers and friends learn more about how to help support our local environments. Please check back regularly as we are continually updating this site.
Help our nursery survive and flourish!
Candlebark has had a couple of very hard years following the COVID lockdowns. In February 2024, the few remaining members, volunteers, staff and committee realised that, without drastic change and an immediate improvement in our financial situation, we would have to shut down our operation.
Fortunately, some of the founding members and long-time friends of Candlebark found out about the nursery’s plight. These dedicated people collaborated with the existing members, staff and volunteers to come up with a plan to turn things around.
As a result of this, a new and reinvigorated committee was formed, and a fundraising campaign started to help the nursery get back on its financial feet. While much has been achieved over the past couple of months, we need more help. If you support our organisation and its objectives, you may like to contribute to our funding campaign and read about how we’re travelling by visiting our GoFundMe campaign page.
Nursery retail hours – Summer 2024 / 25
We are open to the public for retail sales on the following days, except for public holidays:
- Tuesdays, Wednesday, Thursdays and Fridays – 9am to 3pm
- Sundays – 9am to 3 pm
We are not open on Mondays or Saturdays.
We are closed on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day.
New volunteer hours – Summer 2024 / 25
During the warmer summer months, our volunteer activities will take place at the nursery facilities at 308 Hull Road Mooroolbark on the following days and times:
- Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays – 8:30am until 4pm
- Fridays – 8:30am until 3pm
- Sundays – 9am until 3pm
PLEASE NOTE: Wholesale orders and pickups by arrangement with nursery management, usually during volunteer hours between Tuesdays and Fridays.
Frog bogs: Build it and they will come!
Have you heard our resident frogs? Just months after the bog was completed in January 2018, frogs moved in and have lived there ever since. Find out who is living at the nursery.