Australian Succulents

Cactus and Succulent Society of Australia Provides contacts and links to similar societies in most major cities of Australia (all have plant sellers). Website: www.cssaustralia.org.au

Australian native succulent plants are not necessarily always obvious or a major part of any Australian Botanic Garden. Considerable research or a reference in hand is a big advantage. Also the time of the year to find plants and in some cases at their peak may require some homework prior to any visit. For example the Aridlands Botanic Gardens is best visited from August through September, preferably in the middle of this period and after good seasonal rains, when both perennial and annual succulent plants are in vigorous growth and flower. The opposing dry summer and autumn can have these plants shrivelled and unappealing or absent altogether. Botanical Gardens around Australia that include notable plantings of Australian succulent plants are:

• Australian Arid Lands Botanic Garden
  Stuart Highway, Port Augusta West, SA 5700
  Phone.: 08 8641 1049 Fax: 08 8641 1241
  Email:
  Website: www.australian-aridlands-botanic-garden.org
  Displays of various arid and semi-arid zone environments on
  about 200 hectares. Succulent plants are a dominant feature.
• Australian Inland Botanic Gardens
  River Road, Mourquong (near Mildura) Vic. 3500
  Phone: 03 5023 3612 Fax: 03 5022 0012
  Email:
  Website: www.wentworth.nsw.gov.au/botanic
• Australian National Botanic Gardens
  Clunies Ross Street, Black Mountain, Canberra ACT 2601
  Phone: 02 62509450 Fax: 02 62509599
  Email:
  Website: www.anbg.gov.au
• Cranbourne Botanic Gardens
  1000 Ballarto Road, Cranbourne, Vic. 3977
  Phone: 03 5990 2200 Fax: 03 5990 2250
  Website: www.rbg.vic.gov.au/rbg_cranbourne
• Mt Annan Botanic Gardens
  Mount Annan Drive, Mount Annan, NSW 2567
  Phone: 02 4648 2477
  Website: www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au

Recommended nurseries

Sourcing plants and seeds The contact details of a selection of specialist plant and seed suppliers are listed here, but there are many more nurseries that are not included.
Some of the nurseries below are just beginning to extend their range into this area of native succulent plants, and so dedicated searching may be required e.g. ask about plants not yet in their regular catalogues.
Alternatively you can source your own material in the field. More details about the laws and permits required are available in the book.

• Boab Growers - Peter Fox and Denise Hales
  PO Box 1285 Kununurra WA 6743
  Ph: 0417 184 563 Email:
• Australian Orchid Nursery -Wayne Australian Natiive Nursery WayneTurville
  Ph: (03) 5977-3122 Fax: (03) 5977-3350
  Email:
  Web: www.australianorchids.com.au
  A grower of native orchids specialising in epiphytic and lithophytic species, as well as their cultivars. Excellent website.
• Bottle Tree Plantations
  PO Box 2867 Toowoomba. Qld. 4350
  Phone: 07 4697 6195 Fax: 07 4697 6124 Mobile: 0412 222 535
  E-mail:
  Website: www.bottletrees.info
  Grows and sells Brachychiton rupestris. Shipped worldwide.
• Boab Research - Peter Johnson
  Dept of Agriculture PO Box 19, Kununurra WA 6743
  Email:
  Ph: 08 9166 4000 Fax: 08 9166 4066
• Brenton Tucker Native Plants & Carawatha Garden
  Placid Estates Rd Wellington East via Tailem Bend SA 5260
  Ph: (08) 8572 7104
  Large range of small to advanced plants. Also extensive display gardens.
• Codrington Nursery
  Princes Highway Codrington Vic 3285
  Ph: (03) 5568 4344 Fax: (03) 5568 4306
  Email:
  Website: www.codringtonnursery.com.au
  Large range including coastal varieties indigenous to south west Victoria.
• Daisy Patch Nursery
  Native plant grower - Brachychiton, Calostemma, Carpobrotus & Maireana.
  Also just self-published a book titled: "Good Choices, Simple Steps" Matching Plants to Your Conditions.
  Website: www.goodchoices.com.au
  1 George Terrace, Coonalpyn, SA 5265.
  Ph/Fax 08 85711172
• Guruna Nursery
  Email:
  Website: www.guruna.com
  Native, exotic, unusual, edible and medicinal plants. Bulbine bulbosa, Carpobrotus rossii, Cissus, Enchylaena tomentosa, Tetragonia tetragonioides.
  Available through mail order and retail in Sydney.
• Kuranga Native Nursery Vic.
  Ph: (03) 9760 8100
  Website: www.kuranga.com.au
  Regarded as having Australia’s largest range of Australian flora.
• Lang’s Native Plant Nursery
  11th Street Mildura West Vic 3500
  Ph/fax: (03) 5023 2551
  Email:
  Large range of arid and semi arid species.
• Liddle’s Nursery
  PO Box 794 Mareeba QLD 4880
  Ph: (07) 40933176 Fax: (07) 40933295
  Email:
  Primarily a mail order nursery with a very extensive range of Hoyas. Also has Dischidias, Myrmecodias, Hydnophytums, and many other interesting rarities.
• Nielsen’s Native Nursery
  49-51 Beenleigh Redland Bay Rd Loganholme QLD 4219
  Ph: (07) 3806 1414
  The range includes Brachychitons, Cycads, and rainforest and bush tucker plants.
• Roger Bedford
  132 Shute Harbour Road Cannonvale, QLD 4802
  Ph: (07) 4946-7719
  Email: >
  Grower of Myrmecodias, Hydnophytums and Dischidias.
• Steve Prowse - (Drought Proof Plants)
  P.O Box 648 Gordonvale Qld, 4865
  Ph: (07) 40 561818 Fax: (07) 40 561688
  Email:
  Deals in a wide range of plant species but has a strong interest in cacti and succulents and native plant including Myrmecodias and Hydnophytums.
• Taz Wild Plants
  “Bonneys Plains” Conara, Tasmania 7211
  Ph/Fax: (03) 6384 2165
  Email:
  Commercial grower of local flora – eg Bulbine bulbosa.
• ‘The Aussie Plant Finder’ – yearly edition (book)
  Florilegium 145 St. Johns Rd. Glebe, NSW 2037
  Ph:(02) 9571 8222 fax: (02) 9571 8333
  Email:
  Lists over 35000 plants stocked by around 400 specialist Australian nurseries. It is an invaluable source of unusual and rare plants, Australian and exotic.
• Toona Rainforest Nursery
  Graham McDonald
  12 Phar Lap Ave Mudgeeraba QLD 4213
  Phone/fax: 07 5530 5299
  Email:
  Located on the gold coast and specialises in rainforest plants – trees, shrubs, understorey plants and climbers including Peperomias, Plectranthus and Hoyas.
• Wildgems Native Plants
  PO Box 89 Cobargo NSW 2550
  Ph/fax: (02) 6493 7398
  Extensive wholesale range includes rare species.
• Wirrimbirra Native Nursery
  Hume Highway between Bargo and Tahmoor Eastside NSW 2574
  Ph: (02) 4684 1112
  Wide range including unusual plants.

Seeds

• Australian Mining Industry Catalogue
  A comprehensive seed catalogue developed for rehabilitation and revegetation projects in NT, WA and QLD.
  Website: www.kimseed.com.au
• Nindethana Seed Service
  PO Box 2121 Albany WA 6330
  Ph: (08) 9844 3533 Fax: (08) 9844 3573
  Website: www.nindethana.iinet.net.au
  Broad selection of Australian seed.
• Wildflower Society of Western Australia Inc.
  PO Box 64 Nedlands WA 6909
  Seed Sales officer: Eastern Hills Branch PO Box 111 Glen Forest WA 6071