🌱 Welcome to the Wet - Katherine Native Plant Giveaway 🌱
Katherine’s Native Plant giveaway is back! A morning of community, sustainability, and local pride. The biggest local gardening event and plant sale of the year!!
Spend the day immersed in place-based learning, interactive displays led by local experts and a huge selection of Top End native plants — including 2000 for free!
Come for a wander, have a yarn with locals, grab a bite to eat, and relax under the shady trees.
🌱 Take home free native plants!!
2000 free plants. Katherine residents only (proof of address required). 3 plants per household.
🌱 Or choose from 1000 more for sale across 100+ native species, including:
Feature landscape grasses,
Flowering ground covers,
Bird & butterfly attracting screening shrubs,
Edible bush tucker plants
Native shade trees.
Including 25% off a large selection
🌱 Learn practical skills
Pruning, planting, mulching, irrigation, pest management, and attracting wildlife to your backyard.
🌱 Car Boot Sale & Community Fun– bring your car, fill the boot, set up your goodies and sell, swap or share!
WHEN: Sunday, November 8th. 8:00am – 12:00pm
WHERE: Katherine Showgrounds
🌱 Wagait Beach Native Plant Giveaway 🌱
WHEN: Saturday, November 14th. From 8:00am
WHERE: Cloppenburg Park, Wagait Beach
Wagait’s first ever Native Plant giveaway is nearly here; Growing a Greener Wagait Together!
🌱 Take home free native plants courtesy of Wagait Shire Council!
600 free plants. Wagait residents only (proof of address required)
🌱 Why Plant Natives?
Support Local Wildlife
Improve Biodiversity
Drought Tolerant Species
Low water use and maintenance
Suitable for local conditions
WHEN: Saturday, November 14th. From 8:00am
WHERE: Cloppenburg Park, Wagait Beach
🌱 Wet Season Native Plant Sale 🌱
WHEN: Sat, Nov 28th. 8am-2pm
WHERE: Riyala, 255E Gullick Rd, Noonamah
Tuck into some bush tucker, encounter native wildlife on a guided botanical bush walk or browse a huge array of over 2000 Top End native plants for sale!
🌱 Top End Native Plant Society and Territory Native Plants; over 2000 native plants across 100+ species of grasses, groundcovers, scented flowering shrubs, screening hedges and shade trees.
🌱 Identify your plants and weeds, learning which is friend or foe - with help from native botanical gurus. And join Riyala rainforest native plant & animal tours.
🌱 Learn about native wildlife and experience animal encounters; from butterflies & birds to snakes & possums. Or sample some native bee ‘sugar bag’ honey.
🌱 Soak in the serenity of this bush oasis while enjoying some home cooked food, cakes and coffee!
🌱 Hand crafted dining, outdoor, bedside, coffee tables & homewares exclusively from Territory Native Timbers.
🌱 Enhancing community love for Top End native biodiversity, ecosystems and habitats; with experts in environmental science, botany and ecology.
Entry by gold coin donation
WHEN: Sat, Nov 28th. 8am-2pm
Sneaky peaky of some of the plants likely available!
Scrambling shrub or small herb with elegant white to pale blue star-shaped flowers. Small pill shaped seed pods with sticky hairs. Grows as an understory plant in monsoon forest and vine thickets. Prized for its usefulness as a shade tolerant ground cover in urban and rural gardens. 0.2-1M
Small to medium paperbark with profusions of bottlebrush flowers. Usually cream, green, yellow-green and occasionally red. Velvety soft grey-green juvenile foliage. Cream to grey fibrous, layered bark. Grows on outskirts of swamps and wetlands. An ideal choice for wetter areas on rural properties, or to bring character and colour to parks and gardens. 2-10M
Very unique and attractive small shrub with decorative large white flowers throughout the year, and delicious sweet edible fruit. Ideal in pots or part shade gardens with ample water. 1-2M
Spreading shrub with characteristic bright red-brown peeling ‘minni ritchi’ bark and generous flushes of yellow cylindrical flowers. Short, grey-green lightly furred and somewhat sticky leaves. Versatile and attractive shrub for full sun gardens. 1-4M
Extremely rare Grevillea endemic to the Magela Creek area in western Arnhem Land. Blazing and radiant bright red flowers and rigid notched leaves. Stunning feature shrub for parks, gardens and rockeries. Prefers full sun and rocky or sandy soils. 1-2M
Lovely shrub or ground cover with soft blue-green semi-circular miniature elephant ear shaped leaves and bright yellow cylindrical flower spikes. Can flower throughout the year. Ideal for infilling and low screening in gardens and rockeries. Prefers full sun and sandy soils. 0.5-2M
Erect and hardy multi branched wattle with bright yellow flowers on long spikes. Red-brown or grey coloured bark. Simple and elegant open habit. Tough waterwise screening and landscape shrub. 1-3M
A very rare and hardy Acacia endemic to the NT, found mostly in East Arnhem Land. Small shrub with narrow pointed leaves and globular yellow flowers. Excellent for gardens and rockeries. Prefers full sun and sandy soils. 0.5-1M
Medium sized stately, slender wattle. Attractive brown grey corky bark and beautiful yellow flowers in bloom. Very hardy, fast growing and tolerates a variety of habitats. Common in watercourses and woodland. Excellent showy tree for gardens, rural properties, windbreaks and rehabilitation or soil stabilisation. 2-5M
Impressive slender small tree with rigid, unusually curved or wavy grey-green leaves and arresting blooms of creamy-white flowers. Sticky caustic coating on ripe fruits can burn on contact with skin. Prefers rocky or sandy well-drained soils in full sun. 1.5-3M
Beautiful small to medium Nth QLD wet/dry rainforest tree, with dark green glossy evergreen foliage and masses of stunning long creamy flowerheads. Host species for butterfly larvae, very attractive to bees and nectar eating birds. Popular park, streetscape and garden planting for floral displays, low maintenance and durability once established. Tolerates variety of well drained soils in sunny/shady locations. In cultivation generally 8-12M
Spectacular fast growing annual ground cover. Dark green variable leaves and stunning large white-pink flowers with maroon-purple centre. Widespread in coastal vine thickets, riparian areas, Melaleuca forests and savanna-sandstone woodlands and shrublands. Grows in laterite, sandstone, clay, coastal sands and limestone. Flowers during the wet and dies off in following dry season, but re-appears readily from seed. Very attractive garden or rockery shrub. 1-2M
Common, although extremely variable evergreen native vine, vigorous climber or scrambling shrub. Occasionally tree form. Wide ranging in coastal bushland, Acacia woodland, dry and riverine forest. Juicy cream grape-shaped edible fruits & seeds, with leaves cooked and eaten as a vegetable. Wide medicinal uses. 2-5M
Widespread perennial, palatable and plentiful tufted native grass with bluish foliage, turning reddish with maturity. Distinct aromatic smell when crushed. Common in low lying woodlands, edge of creeks and drier floodplains. Fire & drought tolerant, palatable to cattle, horses, livestock and native ruminants. Tolerates heavy grazing and weed competitive. Establishes readily as revegetation, erosion control species to restore disturbed land. Grows on both sandy loam/clay fertile soils and acidic infertile soils. Flowers & fruits all months. 0.5-1.5M
Beautiful, iconic and endemic native Cycad found across Top End Eucalyptus and open deciduous woodland forests. One of the smallest species. Listed as vulnerable and fully protected in the NT. A stunning termite resistant ornamental landscape feature planting. Light orange-brown palm like new feathery leaves, becoming glossy at maturity. Extremely fire tolerant and long lived. Deciduous, less so under irrigation. Wide indigenous uses, although all parts considered toxic.
Graceful, decorative large spreading tree with diagonally layered branches, highly scented flowers and tasty sweet edible purple fruits. Excellent fast growing Top End native shade tree. Red-maroon flush before dropping leaves, with foliage returning soon after in bold fluorescent green flush. Common urban & rural streetscape and parkland planting. Bird & butterfly attractant. 10-20M
Very attractive small tree with neat compact form & dense dark green foliage contrasting with profusion of cream flowers. Bright pink-red fruits can be eaten raw, used to make jam, flavourings or added to Gin/Vodka drinks. Excellent bird attractant, landscaping, streetscape and feature garden planting. 4-6M
Small to medium semi-deciduous spreading bushland tree with pale green fruit, cream flowers and large oval leaves. The fruit is the world's highest known natural source of Vitamin C. Commercially harvested for its culinary uses including gourmet bush condiments like jams, chutneys and pickles. 5-7M
Hardy erect perennial tussock grass found across tropical grasslands of northern Australia, particularly eucalypt woodlands & occasionally gravelly soils in wetter areas. Ideal drought tolerant revegetation species. Important food source & nesting site for native birds and small mammals. Seeds eaten by gouldian, masked & long-tailed finch and the Evening Brown and Dingy Bush-brown butterfly larvae. 1-2M
Attractive trailing shrub. Watermelon pink to white/cream hibiscus-like flowers last one day, but prolific during wet season. Re-shoots from underground tuber with first rains. Tubers, leaves and shoots edible raw or cooked. Wide medicinal uses. Food plant for the Spotted Bollworm moth and Cotton Leaf roller. 1-1.5M
