Seeding Victoria

Seeding Victoria are delighted to announce that we will be working w/ Cassinia Environmental to deliver a project funded by the Natural Resources Conservation Trust to strengthen our native seed industry by building capacity for the community-led collection of seed!

**** ONE WEEK AWAY!! **** 👨‍🚀🚀🌌 Registrations for our online Seeds of Knowledge webinar #06 are live! Join us in hosting Jackie Carpenter from @onegiantleapoz on April 30th, at 6:30 pm (Melbourne time) for Seeds In Space! Please register via the QR code provided.

The team spied this Rhagodia parabolica making a home out of an unlikely spot in Meredith! The adaptations and resilience of local species are truly at work here. Photo: Robert Hall

Robert came across this beautiful crop of Bursaria whilst out collecting at Mt Mercer today! To quote Robert: "O beautiful Bursaria, How old and fruitful doth thee grow!" Photos: Robert Hall

Dan took a trip across to Box Hill to deliver a workshop for Green Links Nursery yesterday! Our workshop calendar for 2025 is filling up quickly, so if you're thinking of hosting one, please contact us ASAP

🌼 Tiny flower, big win! Thanks to community support, our Seeds of Hope Project: ✅ Found 1,000+ Conostylis micrantha plants ✅ Partnered with Yamatji rangers ✅ Banked 800+ seeds Thanks to @WAParksWildlife, @Science_DBCA, @DWER_WA, @NACC_NRM for project support!

A good haul of clustered everlasting (Chrysocephalum semipapposum) seed from earlier in the month! We tend to collect our Asteraceae species seasonally and according to demand, due to their short-lived seed viability (a year or few at best). Photo: Dan Frost.

Some great looking cherry ballart (Exocarpus cupressiformis) - got to love the look of it all together. When first collected the red fruit was pretty juicy. Now it's drying and the blue-green seed that sits underneath the fruit is becoming the show-stopper! Photo: Dan Frost

Brilliant to work alongside @atlaslivingaust to bring you new data about conservation seed collections and germination trials! Check the portal out below. 🌱

Last week Robert snapped this pic of a beautiful Themeda patch along the railway line. Inadvertently preserved thanks to railway regulations. This is also common in other areas such as historical cemeteries, church grounds etc. Photo: Robert Hall

Robert and Dan spent some time yesterday collecting from the Carex patch! This species is great for wet or boggy patches, and is a wonderful habitat plant for native insects, amphibians and small birds. Check our catalogue at seedingvictoria.com.au Photos: Dan Frost

Acacia implexa doesn't seed every year, so it's good to collect when it's available for harvest. This batch from the Meredith area. Photo: Robert Hall

This old Sheoak in Bamganie has stood the test of time. Its progeny spread along the roadside gave us a harvest too. Photos: Robert Hall

Spring/Summer is prime collecting season for our partners as flowers & seed start to appear. Like the stunning peaks of the Stirling Ranges, we think their work is top-tier! ⛰️ Hats off to them on this #WorldWildlifeConservationDay💚 #SeedBank #Conservation #ProtectPlants

The Australian Virtual Seed Bank (AVSB) has just had a data refresh! 📊🫛🌳 Delivered by the @SeedPartnership & hosted by us, it provides open-access information about conservation seed collections & germination protocols from 🇦🇺 seed banks. 📚🔗| spr.ly/6015tLhc9

Sometimes, you get to a site just to find that you're a bit late. On occasion you can collect some of the fallen seed by scooping, brushing or vacuuming - but sometimes you have to just cut your losses. At least there will be ample natural seed bank accumulation in the soil!

Letting everyone know that the Seeding Victoria office will be closed for the holiday period Dec 20- Jan 6. We will reopen after the 6th, but please be aware that response times will still be limited/a bit ad-hoc over summer seed collecting season.

Dan and volunteers are out and about collecting all sorts of Acacia today - this weather has them popping! Photos: Dan Frost

***** Tomorrow night! ***** Don't forget to register for our 4th Seeds of Knowledge webinar, with guest speaker Debbie Reynolds! Register via the QR code in the post below!

Dan took these photos showing the progress of wattle seed that you might come across while out collecting. Some are still green, some are ripe and ready to pick - some you can see the seed have been pinched, or the pod is open & have already shed flattened seeds! P: D Frost

Our next Seeds of Knowledge webinar recording "Securing Seed for the Future" with Laura Watts from @BotanicSydney is available on the YouTube link below! Thank you to our funders, Buloke & Northern Grampians Landcare Network. youtu.be/oV-SXQf1v24?si…