The Noosa Landcare Hinter Hub

Hinterhub will be closed from 11am today Monday 23rd September for some scheduled maintenance.

Returning to regular trading hours tomorrow!


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The fantastic flower spears of the Grass Tree [Xanthorrhoea johnsonii] have just started blooming all over the coast. Be prepared to see birds, bees and other pollinators flock to these distinctive blooms over the next few months!

We've just received a large order of Grass Trees in our production nursery, ranging in size from 10cm-50cm+
As these babies only grow on average 1cm per year we price each one based on height.

Get in touch if you'd like to grab one for yourself!

The Hinter Hub is open 8.30am-3.30pm weekdays and 8am-1.30pm Saturdays.

Toad season is almost on us again! Get your Watergum traps in store now!

Swoon!
Each piece of locally made pottery we stock is unique. That's why we love our local makers, they like to keep things interesting and so do we!🌺

The Hinter Hub is open 8.30am-3.30pm weekdays and 8am-1.30pm Saturdays.

🌸 You may have noticed the Native Wisteria [Callerya megasperma] has just burst into flower!

Native Wisteria is a robust vine suited to tropical and sub-tropical climates. Flowering in late winter to spring, the gorgeous purple and white flower clusters will attract bees, butterflies and other pollinating insects. Flowers are followed by large, distinctive, furry seed pods - which you'll probably notice hanging about very soon - that are very easy to propagate from, just wait for these to pop open, then plant the seeds and wait.

Hardy, and a vigorous grower in suitably moist environments, but easily controlled with careful pruning, the Native Wisteria will grow beautifully along strong supports such as large trees and pergolas - it makes a lovely feature plant and will by inclination, form a canopy. Even the older stems, covered in a rich red-purple flaky bark, add to the beauty of this plant.

It's one of our favourites here, and from the photos you can see why! It's a beautiful addition to any native garden! We sell them in larger, 70mm size tubes for $6.50 each 🌸

The Hinter Hub is open 8.30am-3.30pm weekdays and 8am-1.30pm Saturdays.

🐝 The Hinterhub will be closed this Friday Sept 13th for Noosa Show Day 🐝

Opening our usual hours Saturday 14th 8am-1.30pm for all your native needs!

Just the absolute cutest tea towels from Pomona State Primary School illustrated by the kids from years 5 & 6.
We gotta say, there's some fantastic budding artists in our community!
(Our fave are the insects and flowers!)

The Hinter Hub is open 8.30am-3.30pm weekdays and 8am-1.30pm Saturdays.

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With Spring comes bugs (and other fun warm weather-related garden issues)!! You're gonna need a good bug/disease guide and we've got the perfect one!

Plus!! We have a whole bunch of markdowns in store as part of our Spring Cleaning Sale!

The Hinter Hub is open 8.30am-3.30pm weekdays and 8am-1.30pm Saturdays.

🪻In flower now!

Native Rosemary [Westringia eremicola]

A hardy shrub to 1.5m tall, Native Rosemary is one tough cookie. Happy in full sun to part shade, this drought-tolerant plant flowers throughout the year and can last through extended dry periods and tolerate moderate frost. It's happy in clay, loam or sand, and needs minimal watering... it's one of the more low-maintenance aussie natives!

The mauve flowers contrast beautifully with pale green rosemary-like foliage (however, be advised the leaves are not edible!), making it a great ornamental plant to use as a feature or even for garden edging as it responds very well to regular pruning and can be kept low and bushy like ours at the front of the shop.
Flowers will attract pollinators, especially the Rayed Blue Butterfly.

We sell Westringia in our midi sized pots for $4 a pop!

The Hinter Hub is open 8.30am-3.30pm weekdays and 8am-1.30pm Saturdays.

We are proud to share with you all our community library recently installed in Station Place at the 💚🙌📚

Last year Noosa Landcare were lucky to receive funding from the community benefit fund to help us with a small passion project focused on community mental health and wellbeing.

With the help of many wonderful staff and community members, this beautiful community library was created. Check out the gorgeous murals painted by our very own (and very talented!) Landcare personnel! 📚🛠🖌

Community libraries serve as hubs where individuals can come together, share resources, and build relationships with others who share their love of reading and learning.

Through participation in a community library, people will not only expand their access to books but also contribute to the collective enrichment and empowerment of each other and the community. It's a beautiful example of how small actions can have a big impact on creating a vibrant and connected community.

We would like to give a BIG thanks to the Cooroy RSL for their support to this project, to Kin Kin local Nick Thompson for the donation of books to start the library and Danny from ‘The Paint Place’ for donating the coloured exterior paint. We would like to extend our thanks to the wonderful Noosa Landcare staff who worked together to bring this project to fruition – Jaymie Suares, Jamie Missen (builder extraordinaire 🔨), Kim Maddison, Darrin Barden, SQW trainees, artists – Sophie Chegwyn, Brent Whitworth, Kailey Pearce and Belinda Burke.

Please take a book or leave one for others to enjoy! Happy reading 💚📖
“The more you read, the more things you will know… The more you learn, the more places you will go…” Dr Seuss

The Hinter Hub is open 8.30am-3.30pm weekdays and 8am-1.30pm Saturdays.

📚 Spring Cleaning Book Sale!! 📚

20% off a variety of titles and some one-offs!!

Come grab a bargain!

The Hinter Hub is open 8.30am-3.30pm weekdays and 8am-1.30pm Saturdays.


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These handmade pepper grinders make for a unique gift for the gourmet whiz in your life, or even a lil 'treat yourself' moment 💅

Hand-carved, and with high-quality inner workings, each one is different and eye-catching.

The Hinter Hub is open 8.30am-3.30pm weekdays and 8am-1.30pm Saturdays.

💜Balancing Blend for Women from 💜

A lightly floral and feminine, yet earthy mix of Clary Sage, Ylang Ylang, Lavender, Pink Grapefruit and Rose Geranium to help you feel grounded and ready to face the day!

Available as a spritz or pure essential oil blend.

The Hinter Hub is open 8.30am-3.30pm weekdays and 8am-1.30pm Saturdays.

🌿 Sea Parsley, [Apium prostratum], also sometimes called Sea Celery is a great little Bush Tucker groundcover we've recently added to our nursery!

It's a fantastic, fresh, flavoursome herb and, like traditional Italian parsley, adds a peppery zing to your dishes. Grow and harvest like you would any herb - pick or cut the stems often throughout growing season and towards the end of summer, the small, white flowers will produce copious amounts of seed for your next sowing season.

Sea Celery is drought-tolerant, frost-tolerant and does love the sun, but, like most other herbs, will still thrive in dappled shade. Plant in an area with a soil mix that drains easily, and water well throughout the year. Growing naturally in coastal areas, it's also happy in sandy soils and makes an excellent container or hanging basket plant.

The Hinter Hub is open 8.30am-3.30pm weekdays and 8am-1.30pm Saturdays.

Photo credits:
#1: Gardening with Angus
#2: Paten Park Nursery
#3: Kalamunda Plant Nursery

🌱 We visited our local Pomona Kindy this week to help plant out a Bush Tucker garden for the kidlets! 🌱

Words and photos by Pomona Kindy

Today, we welcomed a special guest Bernice from Landcare to share the rich traditions and knowledge of Bush Tucker. This experience aimed to deepen our understanding of Indigenous Australian culture and support our commitment to cultural diversity and sustainable practices.

Our Landcare guest introduced the children to various bush tucker plants, explaining how they can be used for both food and for creating useful items like baskets. The children were engaged in hands-on activities, planting and watering the bush foods and learning about their traditional uses. This experience provided a unique opportunity for cultural exchange and environmental education. During the morning, the children had much knowledge to share of their own- Rex told us that he "has a mint garden at home, but it's different to the native mint Bernice brought". Fenn told us "They put mint in toothpaste"! Audrey shared "Mum cuts back the plants but they keep growing and growing". One of the plants Bernice brought today is called a Mila Mila- "Hey that's my name", Mila smiled.

Once Bernice had placed the bush tucker in their planting spaces she ventured down to our bush kinder space where she shared her knowledge and identified some other bush tucker and native species we have growing there. Today's experience was a powerful way to support cultural diversity in our program. It allowed children to connect with Indigenous traditions, learn about sustainable practices, and appreciate the rich cultural heritage of Australia. It also provided an opportunity to meet with and build relationships with our local community members from Landcare.

Today we fostered connections to the land, helping children understand the importance of biodiversity and their role in protecting and sustaining their environment. This learning story highlights our commitment to inclusive education, respect for the diverse backgrounds of all our children and families, and our dedication to environmental stewardship.

💙 We LOVE a good handmade gift! 💙

Beautiful hand-woven baskets from local maker Kay Sinclair, each one is unique and made from a variety of locally-sourced plant materials.

The Hinter Hub is open 8.30am-3.30pm weekdays and 8am-1.30pm Saturdays.

🤎 Restocked (but not for long we bet!), everyone's fave mini vases from Noosa Pottery Studio!

🌾Perfect for single stems, feathers, cool sticks (yes, that's a thing) and other oddments!

The Hinter Hub is open 8.30am-3.30pm weekdays and 8am-1.30pm Saturdays.

Happy National Tree Day 🌳

I think that I shall never see,
A poem lovely as a tree.
~ Joyce Kilmer

To celebrate National Tree Day this Sunday we will be taking 10% off all native tube stock this Friday and Saturday 💚🌳🌱

Why plant a native tree this National Tree Day?
🌳 They sequester carbon and provide us oxygen to breath in!
🌳 The provide valuable habitat and food for our native fauna.
🌳 Hold our precious soil in place - reducing erosion, particularly along waterways.
🌳 Keeps everything and everyone coooool in the summertime 😊☀️

This plant offer is only available Friday the 26th of July and Saturday the 27th of July 🌱 Come check out our wonderful range of locally grown and endemic native plants at the Hinter Hub store - Station Street, Pomona (opposite the pub).

Friday 8:30AM - 3:30PM
Saturday 8AM - 1:30PM

🌿 The most perfect hand-woven basket for carrying your cut flowers! 🌿

The Hinter Hub is open 8.30am-3.30pm weekdays and 8am-1.30pm Saturdays.

How to make learning fun... and a little bit Aussie!

From we have the perfect educational (and screen-free!) activity books and learning aids for your littles!
All featuring original illustrations by Penelope Gale and a whole bunch of cool info on some unique australian fauna!

🦘 Australian Animal Alphabet Flash Cards - for kids of any age, with a habitat map and bonus information on each species featured

🐢 Australian Animal Alphabet Poster - A-Z, beautifully illustrated poster of unusual and threatened species, a good resource to use in conjunction with the alphabet flash cards

🐨 Australian Wildlife Early Learning Workbooks - Literacy A-Z and Numeracy 1-20 workbooks with illustrations to colour in and tracing activities, perfect for preschoolers to early primary school age kids

The Hinter Hub is open 8.30am-3.30pm weekdays and 8am-1.30pm Saturdays.

Another yummy Bush Tucker we've been loving for a while now is the Native Currant [Carissa ovata]

The Native Currant is a tough cookie! It's hardy, frost and drought tolerant, adaptable to a variety of soil types and is happy in both full and filtered sun.

It also always looks good! With an open, sprawling habit, bright green, glossy leaves all year round and sweet-smelling clusters of white flowers in Spring and Summer, it's not just the edible fruits that have us digging (excuse the gardening pun!) this great little shrub.

Birds love it too! The thorny thickets provide good small bird habitat and they also love the fruit. Butterflies are attracted to the flowers and it's a host plant for the Common Crow butterfly and moths including the Hawk Moth. Carissa ovata can be used as a good, low, prickly hedging or screening plant.

While the fruits are edible and can be used in a variety of dishes, when harvesting you do need to ensure they are completely ripe and there's no milky sap residue (which can be poisonous).

We currently stock Carissa ovata in our 90mm Maxi pots.

The Hinter Hub is open 8.30am-3.30pm weekdays and 8am-1.30pm Saturdays.

Photo Credits:
#1: Vanessa Hequet
#3: Julien Barault
#4: Paten Park Nursery

Cryptocarya laevigata, also known as the Glossy Laurel or Red-Fruited Laurel, is a lovely rainforest understory shrub or small tree growing to 10-15m tall, but most often seen around 6m.

It's an attractive addition to any garden, with an ornamental, bushy growth habit and a dense crown of glossy, dark green leaves, it produces small, perfumed, cream flowers in Summer followed by striking bright red fruits that will attract birds, butterflies and other insects to your garden

Preferring filtered light or semi-shade, it's adaptable to a variety of soil types but does do better in moist, well-watered environments.

We currently have Cryptocarya laevigata available in our 90mm Maxi pots.

The Hinter Hub is open 8.30am-3.30pm weekdays and 8am-1.30pm Saturdays.

Photo Credits:
#1: TM Tame
#3: Craig Robbins
#5: Denimcc

Keeping the Bush Tucker theme going, back in the nursery this week is the delicious Bush Mint [Mentha satureioides]! Yum!

Native to Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia, the Bush Mint is smaller and more delicate than other native mint varieties and has so many uses! Use it fresh in cooking - it's excellent in salads, sauces and desserts - and dried or fresh, it makes a yummy tea! You can also add it into homemade insect repellents, body scrubs and skincare. It's a versatile plant!

Bush Mint grows best, and the leaves are at their sweetest, during the cooler months. In summer it can die back when the weather gets too hot, but don't worry if that happens, it self-seeds and will bounce back once conditions become more favourable! Flowering during the Spring-Summer months, the tiny white blossoms will attract bees and other pollinators to your garden.

Creeping as it grows, it can get to 20cm in height, but most often will work well as a groundcover in shady, moist areas. If left to its own devices it can take over, but the good news is that it's an excellent container plant and will thrive in pots, plus, with a good prune here and there, it's very easy to keep under control.

We currently stock these in our Midi size pots for $4 each.

The Hinter Hub is open 8.30am-3.30pm weekdays and 8am-1.30pm Saturdays.

Photo Credits:
#1: Paten Park Nursery

New additions to our gourmet Bush Foods

🌿 Lemon Myrtle Tea Leaves
🌿 Lemon Myrtle infused Sea Salt

All locally-grown right next door in Cooran!

The Hinter Hub is open 8.30am-3.30pm weekdays and 8am-1.30pm Saturdays.