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Established 1998

Annandale NSW Australia -33.8814; 151.1707
Nearby: Harold Park (RSS News FEED) | Forest Lodge (RSS News FEED) | Camperdown (RSS News FEED)

Local Provenance Plants for Sydney's Inner West

During the 18th and 19th Centuries, the Turpentine-Ironbark Forests which covered Sydney were cut down for their valuable timber. Annandale house was constructed almost entirely of local Cedar *. The remaining local provenance vegetation succommed to farming, possibly mining clay, for pipes, domestic ware and bricks, sandstone quarries for construction, and eventually sub-division and residential development.

The Rozelle Bay Community Native Nursery, works to reintroduce Local Provenance species. Local Provenance species are those which have adapted to a particular area's climate, rainfall patterns, salt water innundation, sunlight, soil, birds, animals and insects. The purpose built nursery located in Wisdom Street Annandale, features recycled ironbark timber from the old Pyrmont Bridge, perhaps from an ironbark tree that grew in Annandale.

hakea
Hakea Teretifolia 3 October 2008
Phtotographer: Marghanita da Cruz

Seed Pods

white spider flower and green pods
Grevillea Parviflora (Spider) 1 October 2008
Phtotographer: Viki Alonso

mauve flower and green pod
Indigofera 1 October 2008
Phtotographer: Viki Alonso

red flower and green seed pods on a vigorous vine
Kennedia Rubicunda 1 October 2008
Phtotographer: Viki Alonso

Seeds of Pittosporum Undulatum 13 May 2006- Photo Marghanita
Pittosporum Undulatum Seeds

Casurina
Casuarina 29 September 2008
Phtotographer: Marghanita da Cruz