Please join the management team, volunteers, members and staff who celebrate and thank the following organisations and businesses for their invaluable and ongoing support
Yarra Ranges Council has provided continuing patronage since 1994. We are especially grateful for council’s invaluable help with relocating from Croydon North to Mooroolbark in 2008. Special thanks to Cr. Tim Heenan and former Cr. Terry Avery, who were instrumental in reducing our rent.
Candlebark proudly partners with the Yarra Ranges Council to implement their Ribbons of Green, Gardens for Wildlife and Healing in our Gardens programs. These programs enable to community to provide linked wildlife corridors and enhanced biodiversity outcomes throughout the municipality.
Maroondah City Council has supported Candlebark by purchasing many thousands of plants for local revegetation and conservation projects. Maroondah has also introduced many new customers to the nursery. Candlebark is currently partnering with council’s biodiversity team to grow locally rare and threatened plants species for reestablishment in Maroondah’s bushland reserves. This is to help prevent local plant extinctions and improve plant genetics. We also support council’s Nature Havens program, which enables Maroondah residents to make their gardens more wildlife friendly by creating habitat stepping stones for native animals such as birds, insects, lizards and small mammals.
Boral (Montrose) is a major sponsor and patron of Candlebark, having generously donated materials for drainage and concrete since we incorporated in 1994. The provision of quality crushed rock materials is essential for the safety of our members, volunteers, clients and staff, as well as drainage and weed control in our greenhouses, retail and hard standing areas.
Boral also support our objectives by allowing Candlebark volunteers access to the remnant bushland on their property to collect local native plant cuttings and seeds. This plant material is used to grow indigenous plants for revegetation and landscaping projects in Montrose and surrounding areas.
Community Bank Mooroolbark is a primary supporter of Candlebark Community Nursery Inc. Thanks to Bendigo Bank grants over the years, Candlebark has purchased and installed:
- a 22,000 litre rainwater tank that enables us to capture and use rainwater to supplement summer watering of our plants
- shade cloth that provides a large sheltered area for our juvenile plants to grow after moving out of the polyhouse
- purpose built trays in which to grow our indigenous water and bog plants, and
- $11,000 in 2024 to help us upgrade our pot washing, volunteer and seedling propagation areas to enable us to grow up to 120,000 local, native plants each year!
Grateful thanks to Crimsafe and My Security Door (Epping) for the donation and fitting of a brand new security door on our office. For the first time in 16 years, we now have a secure and fly-free office!
Located in Croydon South, Rob from Tailored Heating & Cooling Solutions kindly re-gassed our donated commercial refrigerator at no cost. This has enabled us to store our precious local, native seeds in optimum conditions to enhance longevity and viability. Before we had this fridge, we lost many $$$ worth of seed that succumbed to excessive heat and insect predation.
Alex Canale and his family business, CDL Constructions in Bayswater, have kindly supported our nursery in 2024. They have provided us with:
- specialist machinery and personnel to help us improve our site conditions, and
- the use of their facilities to enable us to clean our shade cloth that covers our main polyhouse.
Please support those businesses and organisations who so generously support us and our objectives.