Coochiemudlo Native Nursery

Coochiemudlo Island
Native Plant Nursery

~ Open Tuesday mornings 9 to 11 ~

We acknowledge the Quandamooka people, the traditional owners of the land on which our nursery is located. We pay respect to their culture and to Elders past and present.

GETTING READY FOR THE OPSHOP MARKETS

Our main aim at the Nursery is to get our plants into the ground, preferably here on Coochiemudlo. Because most of our plants are propagated from native Island seeds and cuttings, they are very well adapted to our conditions.

There are many steps in producing our plants for sale, from identifying plants, collecting seed, treating them if needed with heat, soaking or smoke water, before planting in seed trays. The trays are labelled and the planting recorded. Once the seedlings appear, they are potted up in plant tubes and placed in our hothouse. When they are large enough they are brought out to our shelves and hardened up before they are ready to go into the ground. In the meantime, there is always washing up to do....

We will be selling a selection of our plants at the Opshop markets on Saturday, 7 March.

2025 Achievements

Nursery volunteers donated approximately 640 hours of work in 2025, consisting of regular nursery attendance, seed collection, selling at the community markets and OpShop, pick up and delivery of nursery supplies and administration. Using a volunteering hourly rate estimate of $43.00 an hour, we contributed $27,520 worth of volunteer labour to greening Coochiemudlo Island.

We donated approximately 1375 plants valued at $4125.00 to Bushcare, Coastcare, Indigiscapes and the Men's Shed in 2025.

We're planning to do even more in 2026!