Creating a wildlife-friendly garden? Or perhaps you are trying to establish a drought-proof garden? Finding local plants for gardens is not always easy.
Finding local plants for gardens in Sydney and NSW
This interactive plant selection site is a great resource for gardeners:
- Sutherland Shire Plant Selector by Sutherland Shire
Other plant resources for this region
Below I have compiled list of website links and books I can strongly recommend.
If you know of other resources for this region, please let me know. You can leave a comment at the bottom of this page.
Links to resources for local plants for gardens in Sydney and NSW:
A Guide to Plants of Inland Australia
Covers the major plants of three-quarters of the continent of Australia. This book features 800 species that are well-known, and can be easily seen throughout inland Australia ...
Australian Plants for Canberra Region Gardens
Australian Plants for Canberra Region Gardens is a gardening book that overflows with colour! It describes and illustrates 934 plants suitable for Canberra ...
Edible Wattle Seeds of Southern Australia
Edible Wattle Seeds of Southern Australia identifies 47 Acacia species that have potential for cultivation in the southern semi-arid region of Australia as a source of seed for human consumption ...
eFlora — Vascular Plants of the Sydney Region
eFlora Sydney — Vascular Plants of the Sydney Region is an interactive, dichotomous key to all species of vascular plants in the Sydney region. The identification keys, plant descriptions and botanical glossary have been adapted from the 5th edition of the Flora of the Sydney Region (Pellow, Henwood and Carolin 2009) ...
Field Guide to Useful Native Plants from Temperate Australia
The Field Guide to Useful Native Plants from Temperate Australia has detailed descriptions of over 150 useful plants from Australia's temperate region. More than 600 colour photographs and drawings illustrate the plant descriptions. It contains information on a wide range of uses, such as food, fibre and medicines (including notes on preparation) ...
Flora of New South Wales
Flora of New South Wales is a major four-part work describing the naturally occurring and naturalised plants in New South Wales (including the ACT) ...
Flora of the Sydney Region
Flora of the Sydney Region is a plant identification guide to over 3000 indigenous or naturalised species in the area from Newcastle to Nowra, and west to Lithgow ...
Flowers of the South Coast and Ranges of New South Wales
Flowers of the South Coast and Ranges of New South Wales is a three-part set of books that contain colour photographs of native and introduced plants ...
Grassland Flora: a field guide for the Southern Tablelands (NSW & ACT)
This Grassland Flora is a great field guide to the plants of the endangered grasslands in the Southern Tablelands of NSW and the ACT ...
Kosciusko Alpine Flora
Kosciusko Alpine Flora is a comprehensive account of the Kosciusko environment and its alpine plants ...
Native Plants of the Sydney Region
Native Plants of the Sydney Region is a field guide of the native plants found from Newcastle to Nowra. It contains 1400 great colour photographs ...
Native Trees and Shrubs of South-eastern Australia
Native Trees and Shrubs of South-eastern Australia is one of the best illustrated tools for field identification of trees and shrubs. It covers areas of New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia ...
NatureMapr website and app
The NatureMapr website is a citizen science platform that helps organisations collect, manage and analyse information from the natural world ...
New South Wales Flora online
Data on the NSW Flora online website are derived from the printed Flora of New South Wales, augmented with data from electronic sources maintained by the National Herbarium of New South Wales. The website contains plant descriptions, an index, and identification keys to families, genera and species ...
NSW Sutherland Shire Plant Selector
The NSW Sutherland Plant Selector is an interactive tool designed by Sutherland Shire to select suitable plants for gardens in a local climate ...
Ocean Shores to Desert Dunes
Ocean Shores to Desert Dunes describes 99 vegetation types in NSW and the ACT. Each includes an indicative species list, a location map and photographs ...
Plants and Fungi of South Western New South Wales
The Plants and Fungi of South Western New South Wales app describes 1100 plants in South Western NSW and includes a tool to identify plants: a great way to learn! ...
Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
The Plants of South Eastern New South Wales app describes 3900 plants in South Eastern NSW and includes a tool to identify plants: a great way to learn! ...
Rainforest Climbing Plants
Rainforest Climbing Plants is a plant identification book for the botanically minded naturalist to identify rainforest climbing plants in Victoria, NSW and subtropical Queensland ...
Rainforest Plants of Australia
Rainforest Plants of Australia is an interactive identification key and information software package. It includes species descriptions and feature information to identify over 1100 species of rainforest trees, shrubs and climbing plants of mainland eastern Australia. These species may occur in a variety of rainforests from Rockhampton, in Queensland, to Victoria ...
Rainforest Restoration Manual for South-eastern Australia
Rainforest Restoration Manual for South-Eastern Australia is a guide to the recovery and restoration of subtropical, warm temperate, cool temperate, gallery, dry, dry gully and littoral rainforests from south-eastern Queensland to Tasmania ...
Rainforest Trees and Shrubs
An identification guide to rainforest trees and shrubs from Victoria, New South Wales and subtropical Queensland using vegetative features ...
South Coast Ferns
South Coast Ferns describes 136 local fern species from the south coast in New South Wales. All species have colour photographs ...
Local plant resources for other areas
- Canberra and the Australian Capital Territory (ACT)
- Melbourne and Victoria (Vic)
- Brisbane and Queensland (Qld)
- Perth and Western Australia (WA)
- Adelaide and South Australia (SA)
- Hobart and Tasmania (Tas)
- Darwin and the Northern Territory (NT)
