Helping people help our local environment
We are a volunteer managed, community-based, not-for-profit incorporated association. We grow and sell high quality, low cost, local native plants from the Maroondah, Manningham, Yarra Ranges and surrounding council areas.
Our objective is to support the conservation and enhancement of our local plant biodiversity and to provide habitat for our precious native wildlife.
From humble beginnings in a Bayswater North suburban backyard in 1993, Candlebark has been growing indigenous plants for councils, community organisations, schools, public authorities, bushland reserves and friends groups, as well as supporting many community based environmental projects.
We are open to the public for retail sales:
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays between 9:00 am and 3:00 pm.
Our nursery is run by volunteers who work at the nursery on the days we are open to the public. Volunteer hours range from 8:30 am to 4:30pm, and our volunteers are free to choose the days and times they attend.
Wholesale and other times by appointment only. Please call (03) 9727 0594 or email info@candlebark.org.au to arrange.
Our plants complement any landscape design theme. Being well adapted to local environmental conditions, indigenous tubestock are easy to plant, quick to establish and cost effective for any revegetation or landscaping requirements. Our plants are great for traditional gardens, bush and cottage gardens, and even native lawns!
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We grow locally rare and endangered plants…
In developed urban and semi-rural areas, many indigenous plant species are under threat of local extinction due to a number of factors. Some of these plants are not rare or threatened at a state or national level, but we’re losing them anyway. Plants under threat locally include:
- Acacia brownii
- Acacia verniciflua
- Acacia aculeatissima
- Almaleea subumbellata
- Correa reflexa var reflexa
- Hardenbergia violacea
- Persoonia juniperina
- Hibbertia spp.
- Banksia marginata
- Banksia cunninghamii
- and many, many more.
Growing and planting our local, native plants in gardens and bushland reserves helps to improve our ecosystem services, as well as conserve and enhance the biodiversity of our amazing local environment!
Once common, now locally rare due to interbreeding with horticultural varieties…
Hardenbergia violacea (Purple Coral-pea)