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.

WEED ALERT!

This little plant (Dyschoriste depressa or Butterfly heaven) looks harmless but Brisbane City Council describes it as spreading at 'an alarming rate' and offers advice on how to eradicate it. Unfortunately, it has now been found on Coochiemudlo. Although primarily a weed of riparian areas, and originally from South Africa, it will grow anywhere. It forms dense mats and spreads rapidly, suppressing the native plants that many of our birds and insects depend on.

It is a creeping plant with mauvish five lobed tubular flowers and spreads by seed or is dispersed by mowing.

Here at the Nursery we have a great range of native plants that you can use to replace garden weeds.

If you want to help with weed eradication on Coochiemudlo, Bushcare and Coastcare would love to see you.

iNaturalist is a fantastic free app that will help with plant identification.

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!