Landcare nursery managers within YAN are requesting regional landholders who have large numbers of mature plants, which are part of the YAN Climate Ready list, to consider collecting local seed when the seed matures in coming months. If you are keen to assist in this venture please email Kath. 

Click here to view the full list of Climate Ready plants grown across our Landcare nurseries in Murrumbateman, Bowning-Bookham and Yass.

This bee loving plant is also on the Climate Ready plant list for our Murrumbateman, Bowning-Bookham and Yass Landcare nurseries. You may have several of these climbing plants in your garden. The brown seed pods have not yet appeared however if you are keen to contribute to local native seed collections please watch your Hardenbergias for mature seed pods during December-January.

Please contact Kath if you require further information on this Yass Valley regional native seed collection push across our community.

Landcare nursery managers within YAN are requesting regional landholders who have large numbers of mature plants, which are part of the YAN Climate Ready list, to consider collecting local seed when the seed matures in coming months. If you are keen to assist in this venture please email Kath. 

Click here to view the full list of Climate Ready plants grown across our Landcare nurseries in Murrumbateman, Bowning-Bookham and Yass.

The Box-Leaf Wattle is on the Landcare Climate Ready sowing list for our regional plant nurseries in MLG, BBLG and Yass.

The Box-Leaf Wattle is starting to display immature seed pods which should be ready to harvest in December-January.

The YAN web site has an easy to read Grassy Box Gum Woodland Seed Collection guide.

So if you have several Acacia buxifolia in your paddocks which are mature and preparing to seed, consider keeping an eye on those plants and collect local seed for your Landcare Nursery. Please email Kath for further information on seed collection techniques.

Landcare nursery managers within YAN are requesting regional landholders who have large numbers of mature plants, which are part of the YAN Climate Ready list, to consider collecting local seed when the seed matures in coming months. If you are keen to assist in this venture please email Kath. 

Click here to view the full list of Climate Ready plants grown across our Landcare nurseries in Murrumbateman, Bowning-Bookham and Yass.

The first target plant is Red Stem Wattle which currently has immature green seed pods - however by December these pods should be ready to collect.

YAN's Climate Ready Revegetation Project is helping to build climate-resilience in Yass Valley ecological communities. This is achieved through carefully selecting local species that are likely to survive more extreme climatic conditions, and through increasing the genetic diversity of these species by sourcing seed from a range of provenances. These seeds are then sown in YAN's four native nurseries and the tubestock are distributed to landholders throughout the Yass Valley. 

In late September, YAN President Kath McGuirk, Gill Hall from Murrumbateman Landcare Group, and YAN Coordinator Sonya Duus, got together to sort this year's climate-ready seed and bottle it up for the nurseries. It was a full day's work for three people, and much careful attention went into every aspect of handling the seed and recording the relevant information.