The Goulburn Valley Tree group has a native plant nursery at 4-6 Kerford St Tatura, which sells about 40,000 plants per annum. Species include local eucalypts and wattles as well as other native species that thrive in this area.
Prices: $ 50.00 for a box of 48 trees of the same variety, $ 1.20 each plant for a mixed box or single trees. The trees help provide a range of environmental benefits for various customers. Farmers are able to create windbreaks and woodlots to be used as CO2 offsets, while households are able to utilise smaller gums and acacias in garden settings.
All work at the nursery is undertaken by voluntary labour from members as well as assistance from other local community groups. GVTG has about 25 financial members (predominantly made up of local Tatura farmers or retired citizens) who have donated over 10 000 hours of volunteer labour to their cause since 1984. The nursery has produced over 1,000,000 trees since its inception in 1986.
When the nursery has trees available for sale (generally autumn to mid winter) it is open on Tuesday and Saturday mornings from 9 am to 11.30 am.
Species list for 2013:
Botanical name
Common Name
Acacia acinacea
Gold dust Wattle
A.beckleri
Barrier range wattle
A.craspedocarpa
Leather leaf wattle
A.cultriformis
Knife leaf wattle
A. dealbata
Silver wattle
A.decurrens
Early black wattle
A.glaucoptera
Clay wattle
A.implexa
Lightwood
A.iteaphylla
Flinders range
A. montana
Mallee Wattle
A.pendula
Weeping Myall
A.pulchella
Prickly Moses
A.pycnantha
Golden wattle
A.salicina
Willow wattle
A.spectabilis
Mudgee wattle
A. triptera
Spurwing Wattle
Eucalyptus.albens
White box
E.bella
Ghost gum
E.brockwayi
Dundas mahogany
E.caesia
Silver princess
E.camaldulensis
River Red gum
E.citriodora
Lemon scented gum
E.erythrocorys
Red capped gum
E.eximia
Yellow bloodwood
E.ficifolia
Red flowering gum
E.forrestiana
Fuchsia gum
E.leucoxylon ros
Yell gum (red flower)
E.macrocarpa
Rose of the west
E.maculata
Spotted gum
E.megacornuta
Warted yate
E.melliodora
Yellow box
E.microcarpa
Grey box
E.nicholii
Narrow leaf peppermint
E.nutans
Nodding gum
E.occidentalis
Swamp yate
E.platypus
Round leaf mort
E.polyanthemos
Red box
E.saligna
Sydney blue gum
E.salmonophloia
Salmon gum
E.sideroxylon ros
Red flowering ironbark
E. sideroxylon.
Pink/white iron bark
E.socialis
Red mallee
E. steedmanii
Steedman?s gum
E tetraptera
Square fruited mallee
E.torquata
Coral gum
E.yalatensis
Yalata mallee
Casurina cunninghamia
River she oak
Alloc. torulosa rosea
Rose she oak
Alloc. luehmanii
Buloke
Regilia velutina
Gondwana xmas bush
Grevillea robusta
Silky oak
Callistemon cpt.cook
Captain cook
Cal.cirtinus
Crimson bottlebrush
Cal.pallidus
Lemon bottlebrush
Cal pinifolius
Pine leaved b/brush
Cal salignus
Pink tips
Cal sieberi
River b/brush
Cal viminalis
Weep b/brush
Cal violaceus
Violet bottlebrush
Angophora costata
Smooth bark apple myrtle
Hakea.francisiana
Bottlebrush hakea
H ilicifolia
Holly Leaf
H.laurina
Pin cushion hakea
H.salicifolia
Willow leaf hakea
Melaleuca decussata
Cross leaf h/myrtle
M.halmaturorum
Kangaroo p/bark
M incana
Grey honey myrtle
M lanceolata
Moonah
M.liniarfolia
Snow in summer
M nesophila
Showy honey myrtle
M parvistaminea
Rough bark h/myrtle
M spathulata
Purple myrtle
M stypheloides
Prickly paper bark
Agonis flexuosa
Willow myrtle
Anigozanthos
Kangaroo paws
Austrostipa caespitosa
Wallaby grass
Austrostipa scabra
Spear grass
Banksia
Several varieties
Calothamnus
Nett bush
Dodonea viscosa
Wedge leaf hopbush
Eutaxia microphylla
Common Eutaxia
Indigofera australis
Austral indigo
Kennedia 2 varieties
Prostrata and Eximia
Leptospermum
Petersonii
Pittosporum
Weeping pittosporum
Bursaria Spinosa
Sweet bursaria
Callitris glaucophylla
White cypress pine
Goulburn Valley Tree group meet at 12 noon, every 2nd Tuesday of every month other than August, at the Tree Group Nursery, 4-6 Kerford St Tatura, all are welcome.
To ring the nursery: contact: Nancy Bloodworth 0400 059765Postal Address: 4-6 Kerford St Street Address: 4-6 Kerford St Town: Tatura