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 Melbourne and Victoria
This interactive plant selection site is a great resource to find local plants for gardens in Melbourne and Victoria:
- Melbourne Urban Nature Planting Guide by the City of Melbourne
Other resources for this region
Below I have compiled list of website links and books I can strongly recommend.
If you know of other resources to find local plants for Melbourne and Victoria, please let me know. You can leave a comment at the bottom of this page.
Links to resources for local plants for gardens in Melbourne and Victoria:
A Field Guide to the Grampians Flora
A Field Guide to the Grampians Flora describes the most common trees, shrubs, climbers, lilies, grasses, orchids, and fern and fern allies in the Grampians or Gariwerd ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 Victoria
The Flora of Victoria is a four-volume reference work covering the flowering plants, conifers, and ferns and allied plants that occur in Victoria ...
Indigenous Plant Use
Indigenous Plant Use is a small but very interesting booklet on indigenous use of plants of the eastern Kulin Nation (Victoria) ...
Kosciusko Alpine Flora
Kosciusko Alpine Flora is a comprehensive account of the Kosciusko environment and its alpine plants ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Grampians in Flower
The Grampians in Flower is a pictorial introduction to 400 flowering plants of the Grampians region and surrounding area in central western Victoria ...
The People of Gariwerd
The People of Gariwerd — the Grampians' aboriginal heritage tells how Aboriginal people have maintained an intense and unbroken relationship with the peaks and plains of Gariwerd since the last Ice Age to the present day ...
Local plant resources for other areas
- Canberra and the Australian Capital Territory (ACT)
- Sydney and New South Wales (NSW)
- Melbourne and Victoria (Vic)
- Brisbane and Queensland (Qld)
- Darwin and the Northern Territory (NT)
- Hobart and Tasmania (Tas)
- Adelaide and South Australia (SA)
This i a great page can someone tell me what the name of the plant at the type of the page is? Thank you have a great day.
Hi Sharon
Thanks for visiting! It is Pink Heath or Epacris impressa.