Why indigenous plants ?

Native plants originate from anywhere within Australia. Indigenous plants, however, are locally based.

They have adapted to local conditions over thousands, if not millions, of years.

This means that they are suited to your soil type, temperature and rainfall patterns.

Indigenous plants have many advantages

They adapt to low nutrient (poor) soils.
They can help stabilise soils that are subject to erosion, using their deep roots to counter erosive forces.
They are low maintenance and require minimal watering once established.
Most are drought tolerant and may benefit from annual drying/wetting cycles.
Being better suited to the environment, they will fail less and be therefore more cost effective in the long run.
They provide habitat for local birds in the bush, butterflies and other beneficial pollinating insects.
They will not become weeds in the bush like some exotic plants.
They will help preserve the local biodiversity that, let’s face it, has been decimated by two hundred years of white settlement and agriculture.
They will bring frogs and lizards to your garden. Koalas also love them!
They are beautiful, fascinating and interesting in their own right.
As the climate changes, we will need more corridors of indigenous plants to allow birds and animals and insects to migrate along.