PLANTING GUIDES

These planting guides and resources should help you to choose local native plants for your bushcare site or garden. You can also visit the Plants To Plant section using the site navigation.

Read or download a copy of The Creek in Our Backyard: A practical guide for habitat restoration by SOWN legend Robert Whyte –  2.7 Mb PDF

Download the SOWN Planting Guide – This is a printable PDF document

A Guide to Enoggera Catchment species and pronunciation – Compiled by Blair Bartholomew

Drought Tolerant Enoggera Species – Compiled by SOWN and BRAIN

Our full Enoggera Catchment plant list in an Excel spreadsheet

12.3.7 Plant List (A-Z)

Regional ecosystem 12.3.7 is characterised by “Eucalyptus tereticornis, Casuarina cunninghamiana subsp. cunninghamiana and may include Melaleuca spp. fringing woodland” in South-East Queensland. Bowman Park in Bardon is an example of 12.3.7.

12.3.16 Plant List (A-Z)

Regional ecosystem 12.3.16 is “complex notophyll to microphyll vine forest on alluvial plains” in South-East Queensland. The Gap Rainforest from Enoggera Reservoir to Walton Bridge Reserve is an example of 12.3.16.

Web sites with plant lists and information

Australian Plant Name Index – APNI

BRAIN – Rainforest plants of the Brisbane area

David McMinn’s Nimbin plant guide – Info sheets on dry rainforest species, fast growing rainforest species, trees for swampy areas, trees for river & creek plantings, trees suitable for flying foxes, rainforest trees for birds, native vine species, native figs: food for wildlife

Queensland Regional Ecosystem Descriptions

South East Queensland Regional Ecosystem Technical Descriptions