OPEN DAY 2026 - Frankston Indigenous Nursery
Celebrate our 2026 re‑opening! Grab local plants, enjoy free food and coffee, and hear Jaclyn Crupi share tips on wildlife‑friendly gardens.
The autumn growing season is almost here! We've been busy propagating local indigenous plants, and we're finally ready to share them with you.
WHAT'S ON:
✅ Special Guest Speaker - Author Jaclyn Crupi will share insights from her inspiring book 'Planting for Native Birds, Bees and Butterflies: How to create a garden that attracts Australian wildlife'
✅ Meet our passionate environmental volunteers and learn how you can get involved
✅ Learn about Frankston's Gardens for Wildlife program and how to get a free backyard consult, or register to be a garden guide!
✅ Take home some native plant tubestock for your garden, just in time for the autumn planting season
✅ Enjoy an event special discount of 20% OFF at Roving Refills
✅ FREE coffee from our local coffee legends Messin' With Jim
✅ FREE sausage sizzle run by a local community group (vego option available!)
✅ If you are a Frankston City Council resident, you are eligible for our tree giveaway program and you can take home a free tree
You don't want to miss this event! Come along to support biodiversity and connect with your nature-community.
Celebrate our 2026 re‑opening! Grab local plants, enjoy free food and coffee, and hear Jaclyn Crupi share tips on wildlife‑friendly gardens.
The autumn growing season is almost here! We've been busy propagating local indigenous plants, and we're finally ready to share them with you.
WHAT'S ON:
✅ Special Guest Speaker - Author Jaclyn Crupi will share insights from her inspiring book 'Planting for Native Birds, Bees and Butterflies: How to create a garden that attracts Australian wildlife'
✅ Meet our passionate environmental volunteers and learn how you can get involved
✅ Learn about Frankston's Gardens for Wildlife program and how to get a free backyard consult, or register to be a garden guide!
✅ Take home some native plant tubestock for your garden, just in time for the autumn planting season
✅ Enjoy an event special discount of 20% OFF at Roving Refills
✅ FREE coffee from our local coffee legends Messin' With Jim
✅ FREE sausage sizzle run by a local community group (vego option available!)
✅ If you are a Frankston City Council resident, you are eligible for our tree giveaway program and you can take home a free tree
You don't want to miss this event! Come along to support biodiversity and connect with your nature-community.
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Highlights
- 3 hours
- all ages
- In-person
Location
Frankston Indigenous Nursery
32R McMannis Way
Seaford, VIC 3198
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Agenda
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Author Talks: Jaclyn Crupi
Jaclyn Crupi is a gardener, garden educator, bookseller and author. She began growing flowering plants to attract pollinators and now nurtures a large native habitat garden on the Mornington Peninsula. Join Jaclyn Crupi for an inspiring session on creating wildlife‑friendly gardens at home. Drawing from her book 'Planting for Native Birds, Bees and Butterflies', Jaclyn will explore how simple actions in our own backyards can help protect Australia’s precious (and increasingly threatened) species. This beginner-friendly talk will finish with a Q&A session, giving you the chance to ask Jaclyn your gardening questions.
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Nursery Tour
Take a behind-the-scenes tour of the Frankston Indigenous Nursery and discover the facilities and care that go into producing high-quality local plants that are used by our Natural Reserves team (and you!) for revegetation projects. This walk-through tour will be led by one of our passionate nursery staff and give you an inside look into our propagation areas, growing systems and the everyday work that keeps the nursery thriving.
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Propagation Workshop
Join us for a beginner-friendly introduction to native plant propagation. Led by one of our talented nursery staff, this demonstration offers a behind-the-scenes look at the tools and methods that our team uses to grow indigenous plants from cuttings and seeds. You'll get some easy tips and tricks to try at home!