Seeding Victoria

Seeding Victoria is a community run not-for-profit seed bank. We provide for revegetation projects across Central, SW and NW Victoria and Southern NSW

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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!

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**** ONE WEEK AWAY!! ****

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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🌼 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!

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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.

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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

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

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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

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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 https://t.co/6ZnXEk8JV2

Photos: Dan Frost

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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

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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

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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

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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.

📚🔗| https://t.co/Y6kXRdttkT

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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!

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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.

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

Photos: Dan Frost

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***** 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!

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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

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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.

https://t.co/TdBOyFPOeM