Community Nursery

Council encourages the planting of indigenous vegetation in public and private gardens by:

• Producing plants for Council use in parks, bushlands and other public places.
• Providing plants at wholesale price rates to schools and local golf courses.
• Selling plants to residents, developers and landscapers at wholesale prices.

Become a volunteer at the Bayside Community Nursery

The nursery has a strong volunteer program that contributes to the propagation and running of the nursery and new volunteers are always welcome.

The volunteer program provides an opportunity for enthusiastic members of the community to work alongside Council staff to propagate from local indigenous bushland plants to provide trees and shrubs to revegetate our bushland environment.

When you become a volunteer, you can:

• Learn how to sow seeds and strike cuttings and care for the developing plants until they are ready for planting out.
• Purchase plants at reduced rates for your own use.
• Receive local environment information in the Banksia Bulletin Newsletter.
• Enjoy participating and learning from involvement in excursions to other bushland areas and nurseries and from training sessions.
• Have access to reference material in the nursery library.
• Become involved in extra activities including tree planting in bushlands and in school programs.

Meeting date and time: each Thursday and Saturday from 10am to 12noon.
Location: 319 Reserve Road, Cheltenham
Contact: Submit an online enquiry form or call 9583 8408.