Seeds for Change

Your local planting guide

More than 90 local plant fact sheets have been created for the metro Adelaide area as part of the Seeds for Change project.

Find a local native plant to suit your purpose!

Seeds for Change is a Junction Community Centre initiative. Port Environment Centre is assisting by helping to share their work with the community.

About Seeds for Change: An Ottoway project

Approx 2,500 plants were propagated and shared by the Seeds for Change project.

This project shows that we can create habitat whilst enriching our environment, community and lives.

Seeds for Change enquiries can be directed to Deidre Knight  – email: deidrefknight@gmail.com

The Junction Community Centre (Ottoway) created Seeds for Change – an initiaive to help residents affordably reduce heat on their streets and homes while increasing local biodiversity and growing community connections.

Seeds for Change reached out to Ottoway residents, schools, faith communities, businesses and the City of Port Adelaide Enfield to participate in a series of free propagation and planting events.  Endemic (local), drought tolerant species were planted in residents gardens, verges and parklands.

All plantings were accompanied by Seeds for Change signs with a QR code to the 100 fact sheets on the Seeds for Change Facebook page.

Seeds for Change Ottoway – a Junction Community Centre initiative – is funded by Green Adelaide and supported by the people of Ottoway, the City of Port Adelaide Enfield and the Honorable Susan Close, Member for Port Adelaide. The project team thanks all those who have supported this community learning and sharing initiative.

Local plant fact sheets

Here’s an example – but there’s 90+ more.

These fact sheets describe the basic info (size, flowers etc.) of local native plants, including planting and care info, how to propogate and the fauna they support.

Let’s see more of our endemic species growing in verges, gardens and parks to provide habitat for local fauna.

Scroll down for the full plant list and links all the fact sheets! Free to dowload, use and share. Or have a look at the image gallery on the Seeds for Change facebook page.

Fact Sheet Finder

Download the PDF for all the good stuff.

Find fact sheets below. Filter using categories, or visit the Centre during open hours to browse in person.

Browse more on our Resources page.

  • Banksia marginata – Silver Banksia

    No description here yet, sorry! Check out the PDF.

  • Billardiera cymosa – Sweet Apple Berry

    No description here yet, sorry! Check out the PDF.

  • Brunonia australis – Blue Pincushion

    No description here yet, sorry! Check out the PDF.

  • Burchardia umbellata – Milkmaids

    No description here yet, sorry! Check out the PDF.

  • Bursaria spinosa – Sweet Bursaria

    No description here yet, sorry! Check out the PDF.

  • Callistemon rugulosus – Scarlet Bottlebrush

    No description here yet, sorry! Check out the PDF.

  • Callistemon sieberi – River Bottlebrush

    No description here yet, sorry! Check out the PDF.

  • Callitris gracilis – Southern Cypress Pine

    No description here yet, sorry! Check out the PDF.

  • Calocephalus citreus – Lemon Beauty Heads

    No description here yet, sorry! Check out the PDF.

  • Calostemma purpureum – Garland Lily

    No description here yet, sorry! Check out the PDF.

  • Calytrix tetragona – Common Fringe Myrtle

    No description here yet, sorry! Check out the PDF.

  • Carex appressa – Tall Sedge

    No description here yet, sorry! Check out the PDF.

  • Carex bichenoviana – Notched Sedge

    No description here yet, sorry! Check out the PDF.

  • Carex gaudichaudiana – Fen Sedge

    No description here yet, sorry! Check out the PDF.

  • Carpobrotus rossii – Karkalla

    No description here yet, sorry! Check out the PDF.

  • Chamaescilla corymbosa – Blue Squill/Blue Stars

    No description here yet, sorry! Check out the PDF.

  • Chloris truncata – Windmill Grass

    No description here yet, sorry! Check out the PDF.

  • Chrysocephalum apiculatum – Common Everlasting

    No description here yet, sorry! Check out the PDF.

  • Chrysocephalum semipapposum – Yellow Buttons

    No description here yet, sorry! Check out the PDF.

  • Convolvulus remotus – Native Bindweed

    No description here yet, sorry! Check out the PDF.

  • Coronidium scorpioides – Button Everlasting

    No description here yet, sorry! Check out the PDF.

  • Cullen australasicum – Scurf Pea

    No description here yet, sorry! Check out the PDF.

  • Cymbopogon ambiguus – Scent Grass

    No description here yet, sorry! Check out the PDF.

  • Dianella brevicaulis – Short Stem Flax Lily

    No description here yet, sorry! Check out the PDF.