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 plants in the ground

When Margrit Lack and Diane Binstead started the Native Nursery in 2009, their goal was to green Coochiemudlo Island with native plants. As the Nursery has grown and evolved, this remains our goal. To this end, we are donating $15 vouchers for plants to new residents: our first recipient, Adrian, visited us recently to choose some plants with help from our President, Julie.

We have recently donated trays of plants to Bushcare and Coastcare for their bush regeneration work. The volunteer in the photo above is planting a Lomandra longifolia (mat rush) and the little plant on the right that has just been put in the ground is Trema tomentosa (Poison Peach). It gets its common name because it is poisonous to cattle. Both can be seen growing on Coochiemudlo and are among the many plants we have for sale at the Nursery.

We will have a stall at the next opshop markets on 2 May so please come along and select something for your garden. Our tubestock plants are only $3.

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!