Australian Native Plants Courses

Become an Expert on the Genus Acacia

Are you passionate about ferns?  Learn which ferns occur naturally in Australia along with:

• how to identify ferns,
• where to obtain relevant accurate information,
• how to propagate ferns, and
• growing and using ferns in baskets, terrariums, and landscapes.

Want to Learn More about Australia's Native Trees?

This course first instructs you about different types of Australian flora: plant identification, information sources, planting, feeding, soils, pests & diseases, watering, propagation and transplanting. Plant identification  is the cornerstone of this course.

The remaining lessons then deal with selected varieties of trees, windbreak planting, agroforestry, tree maintenance and tree selection.

An Intensive Course On Australian Natives

Learn to identify, select, cultivate and plan a management program, for appropriate varieties of Australian native plants, in a wide variety of situations, from home gardens to commercial landscapes, parks, roadsides and revegetation projects.This course is comprehensive and enthusiastic students will gain enormous knowledge from this course guided by knowledgeable, professional tutors.

Focus on a range of particularly significant genera, including:

Australia has one of the oldest and most diverse varieties of plants of an country. Australian natives come from tropical areas to cold temperate snow covered mountains, and from inland deserts to fertile wet rainforests. This is relevant to not only Australia, but most parts of the world.

Are You Passionate about Australian Native Wildflowers?

Learn to identify and grow a wide variety of small shrubs, ground covers and bulbs that are native to Australia.

This course deals with both woody (hard wooded) and herbaceous (soft wooded), low growing Australian Native Plants, which bear showy flowers.
The focus is on small shrubs and ground covers.

Comment from one of our Australian Natives II students:
"The plant recognition assignments were challenging and a great help for the future" D. Sydenham

Interested in Australian Bush Tucker?

Learn how to identify, grow, harvest and use bush tucker plants, for unique food products harvested from the Australian bush.

Australian Indigenous Plants for Food
There are over 5,000 Australian plants that are edible, and even some that are in very high demand as foods throughout the world. The Aborigines lived off the land before white civilization came to Australia. Plants contributed significantly to their diet. Many of these native plants are worthwhile growing. There are many different types of bush tucker foods:

• Nuts and seeds (eg. Acacia, Macadamia, bunya nuts)
• Drinks (eg. hot teas, infusions of nectar laden flowers, fruit juices)
• Flavourings (eg. lemon scented myrtle)
• Berries (eg. Astroloma, some Solanum species)
• Fruits (eg. quandong, Ficus macrophylla, Syzygium)
• Vegetables
• Wattle seeds ground to produce 'flour'
• Plant roots ground to produce a paste or flour.

An excellent introduction to the genus Eucalyptus, covering identification, culture (propagation, soils, landscape uses, feeding), and uses. Throughout the course you build both a knowledge of the group as a whole, and of the range of species you can identify.

A course for both amateurs and professionals: plant collectors, nurserymen, gardeners, farmers, land managers and more.

Become an expert on Grevilleas, developing a thorough grounding in identifying, selecting varieties, growing and using grevilleas. Study many of the major species and hybrid groups, including Clearview hybrids, banksii hybrids, Poorinda hybrids, rosmarinifolia varieties, juniperina varieties, groundcopvers, shrubs and trees.