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Local Provenance Plants for Sydney's Inner West

Trees (> 5m)
Trees (< 5m)
Shrubs (0.5 - 2m)
Grasses
Climbers
Herbs
Estuarine
Ferns
Fungi
Wattle Pods Flowers
Seed Pods
Yellow Flowers
Green Flowers
Blue-Pink Flowers
White-Cream Flowers
February Bunyas
March Lilipillis
August Flowers
September Flowers
October Flowers
Banksia marginata
Trees
Weeds
Bookshop
Eco-Annandale 2009
Eco-Annandale 2010
circa 1800 Drawings
Rozelle Bay Community Native Nursery (1998-2010)
Wisdom Street Site Saga
References
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During the 18th and 19th Centuries, the Turpentine-Ironbark Forests which covered Sydney, were cut down for their valuable timber. The remaining local provenance vegetation succommed to farming, mining for clay, for pottery and bricks, sandstone quarries, for construction, and eventually residential development.

Where to Buy Sydney Native Plants

The Rozelle Bay Nursery plans to sell plants. Their current capacity to produce enough stock is limited by their current temporary facilities. A purpose built nursery is being constructed (Feb 2012) in Wisdom Street. In the mean time, Inner West local provenance species are available from Cornucopia Nursery, Marrickville Community Nursery and Strathfield Council Native Nursery.

This list of Local Provenance Plant Species, that is plants that would have been endemic in the area, is based on a list compiled by Catherine Rowland.

Local Provenance Plants are those that have evolved to suit a location's natural unique conditions. Lots or little rain some years, every year or throughout the year or just when it is cold or hot. Levels of sunlight and temperature variations. Alkaline or acidic, clay or sandy soil with an abundance or low levels of phosphate, iron, calcium, nitrogen, humus, rocks, underground water reserves. Plants may rely on a particular insect, bird, possum or the wind for cross polination, heat to open pods and wood ash, rain and light to germinate (propagate). Plants have adapted to live in shady gullies, or salty tidal wetlands or Sunny well drained spots.

Since 1995, the Rozelle Bay Community Native Nursery has collected seeds and cuttings from the closest remnant bushland, to propagate and reintroduce Local Provenance Plants to Annandale and the Inner West of Sydney.

Sydney Plants ca 1800

Drawings / Album of watercolour drawings of Australian natural history, owned by Robert Anderson Seton, ca.1800, State Library of NSW (Released for Library Hack 2011)

Annandale on the WebEstablished 1998

Local Provenance Plants for Sydney's Inner West

Where to Buy Sydney Native Plants

Sydney Plants ca 1800

Annandale on the Web
Established 1998