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[QLD, VIC, NSW, TAS, WA] Councils Offering Free Trees / Plants

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[QLD, VIC, NSW, TAS, WA] Councils Offering Free Trees / Plants
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Taegukgi on 03/10/2018 - 11:05 logan.qld.gov.au (4686 clicks)
Last edited 27/03/2024 - 13:16 by 1 other user

Did a search of all the councils offering free plants/trees - here's what I've found. There are some councils that aren't listed here but they have events offering free trees.

I have not marked this as a freebie as we all need to pay rates!

Queensland
Council # of plants/trees
Brisbane 2 to 4
Logan 3
Gold Coast 2
Ipswich 6
Scenic Rim 2 (up to 10)
Sunshine Coast 2
Gympie 2
Burdekin 10
Somerset 2 (up to 10)
Victoria -
Council # of plants/trees
Casey 2
Banyule BOGOF
Mornington Peninsula 2
New South Wales
Council # of plants/trees
Hornsby 4
Inner West 1
Cessnock Up to 8
Lake Macquarie 2
Blacktown 2
Hills 4
Tasmania
Council # of plants/trees
Hobart 1
South Australia

None found

ACT

Up to 20 for new properties

Western Australia
Council # of plants/trees
Melville up to 15
Armadale 10
East Fremantle Max 10 (half price)
Cockburn Max 20 (subsidised price)
Kalamunda 15
Bayswater 1-2 (cnr)
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Comments

  • tanabe88gg on 03/10/2018 - 11:17
    +3

    This is cool I had no idea this was a thing. Thanks!

  • Saturday on 03/10/2018 - 11:19

    I have got a couple of plants through this program. These are native plants on offer, which are "bottle-brush" kind of trees.

  • altomic on 03/10/2018 - 11:22
    +3

    stupid Moreton Bay Regional Council

    • Radar on 03/10/2018 - 12:10
      +3

      Too busy being suss with mates

    • Scab on 03/10/2018 - 12:15
      +4

      stupid Moreton Bay

      JV: Does it bug you?

    • jesseb05 on 03/10/2018 - 16:46
      +5

      MBRC do offer this, It's just not advertised. You can claim two 10 cm pot natives per financial year. Need to call council and they will post you coupons (or you can collect at local council office) to collect from their nursery at Petrie.

      I did this just a few weeks back.

      • altomic on 03/10/2018 - 20:40

        Petrie?! That's bloody miles away. Stupid amalgamation. Stupid MBRC.

        Thanks for commenting jesseb05

        • Mondorock on 28/03/2024 - 05:07

          Lol @ 20km being "bloody miles away". Here in Melb that doesn't even get you halfway across the city.

    • sam-1966 on 04/10/2018 - 08:30
      +1

      Moreton Bay does give two free trees, but you have to go to their nursery at Petrie to get them.

      Phone council on (07) 3205 0555 for a free voucher. Can't find anything on their website about it, naturally.

    • Archaic on 27/03/2024 - 12:48

      Moreton Bay currently offer free plants through four different community nurseries. Specifically, owners of residential properties can get one free native plant voucher per financial year, which can be redeemed from community nurseries for one of the following options:
      * four tube stock; or
      * two medium sized pots; or
      * one large pot.

      • sam-1966 on 27/03/2024 - 17:12

        Sounds much better than the old scheme - thank you, shall check it out!

  • INFIDEL on 03/10/2018 - 12:07
    +1

    Low maintenance plants suited to local environment. Not just trees & shrubs, also groundcovers & native grasses available to Brisbane ratepayers.

    Got 4 free from recent Green Heart Fair. Have voucher for 2 more with rates notice.

    Planted 2 low shrubs (0.5 to 1.5m) plus Lilly Pilly & Bottlebrush (up to 4m).

    Native pheasant (Coucal) has taken up residence in suburbia after plantings.

    • m9 on 03/10/2018 - 12:10

      Native pheasant (Coucal) has taken up residence

      Perfect timing

      • INFIDEL on 03/10/2018 - 12:12

        It's just called a pheasant. Not much meat on them.

        • m9 on 03/10/2018 - 12:13

          Should be able to cram a few in..

          • INFIDEL on 03/10/2018 - 12:14

            @m9: A shy bird not common in the suburbs - you'll starve!
            Scrub turkeys are meatier, easier to catch & much more common. Could be slow cooked in their own nest (big pile of rotting vegetation).
            Good luck.

            • cannedhams on 03/10/2018 - 14:20

              @INFIDEL: Only tried scrub turkey once. Dad bagged one with the shotty after it got into the banana trees.

              Very chewy and gamey. Like old stringy pork but with the dryness of rabbit. We all sat down at the dinner table and tried to chew our way through it.

              After five minutes Mum said, "do you think I should try cooking it a bit longer?"

              Dad said, "nah, I think this is as good as it gets".

              Apparently the Aboriginal saying is, if you cook a scrub turkey in a pot, throw away the turkey and eat the pot.

              • Scab on 03/10/2018 - 14:38

                @cannedhams:

                Like old stringy pork

                Username checks out.

              • INFIDEL on 03/10/2018 - 21:43

                @cannedhams: Heard reports it is gamey.
                Most people here would be more interested in KFC deals, than go to all that trouble😉

                • cannedhams on 04/10/2018 - 14:32

                  @INFIDEL: My old man liked to save a quid. I remember eating pipis quite a bit, we'd go prawning in the Noosa river and get enough to fill the bathtub. Then fill the freezer full of them and eat nothing else for a week. Even goldfish once or twice when they grew big enough. When you pull a goldfish out of a pond and throw it on the barbecue at a party, the crowd reaction can be pretty funny.

                  He shot a cat once, Mum said no way are we eating that.

    • Pantagonist on 03/10/2018 - 13:10
      +7

      How's breathing treating you?

      • nobro25 on 27/03/2024 - 15:56

        Move out to Western Sydney to those new houses, they have no trees, 5 sqm backyards. It's perfect for you.

  • lanjiao on 03/10/2018 - 12:10

    Awesome, thanks! Keen for some new natives

  • jaypee06 on 03/10/2018 - 12:13

    Nice! I never knew Gold Coast City Council had this program too.

  • Hinee on 03/10/2018 - 12:51

    Renting :(

    • Antikythera on 03/10/2018 - 14:14
      +4

      Mates planted a lemon tree on the nature strip out the front of their rental several years ago.

      A society grows great when tenants plant lemon trees whose fruit they know they shall never eat.

      • whooah1979 on 03/10/2018 - 14:48
        -2

        Residents shouldn’t plant anything outside of their boundary.

      • Hinee on 03/10/2018 - 14:49
        +1

        The in-laws have a hectic garden and pretty much the only thing we raid it for regularly are lemons & limes. Your mates gotta up their citrus game my friend!

    • Hinee on 27/03/2024 - 17:26
      +1

      Hello past me. Congrats on buying your first home.

  • daydream on 03/10/2018 - 12:55
    +5

    Interesting how you need a council permit to build almost anything but you can plant a tree anywhere and not care! ;-)
    (Two of my neighbours gum trees planted along the fence line have nearly killed us falling into our property)

    • Scab on 03/10/2018 - 14:40
      +3

      Same here, gum trees are the worst.

      They're called widow-makers because they drop branches that kill people.

  • jackwoz on 03/10/2018 - 14:07

    Cockburn Councils was only in May

  • necromen13 on 03/10/2018 - 14:23

    Looks like Casey (VIC) only had them available in May.

    • SaveTheManuals on 03/10/2018 - 14:33

      Yeah damn, I wonder if it's roughly the same time each year.

  • daleyboy79 on 03/10/2018 - 14:53
    +1

    Blacktown council (NSW) gives residents 2 free per year - https://www.blacktown.nsw.gov.au/Services/Blacktown-Nursery

    • Taegukgi on 03/10/2018 - 14:54
      +1

      Added to list. Thanks

  • [Deactivated] on 03/10/2018 - 14:56
    +2

    My local council only gives out native plants during citizenship ceremonies.

    So my plan is to renounce my citizenship, become stateless, re-apply to become a citizen, then get my free shrub.

    • Taegukgi on 04/10/2018 - 20:19

      Added, thanks

  • Pantagonist on 03/10/2018 - 15:08

    ACT: https://www.tccs.act.gov.au/territory-services/yarralumla_nu… (newly built homes on new blocks only).

    • Taegukgi on 04/10/2018 - 20:22

      Added, thanks

  • Nukkels on 03/10/2018 - 15:25

    None found :'(

  • Vienta on 03/10/2018 - 15:35
    -1

    Great, this is how they spend rate payer's money and each year rate keeps increasing!

  • zqipz on 03/10/2018 - 15:36

    Worth about $8 each. (from the nursery i went to)

  • MaccDogg on 03/10/2018 - 16:50

    City of Bayswater.
    1 tree, or 2 for corner block. http://www.bayswater.wa.gov.au/trees/want-a-free-street-tree

  • tommy-darko on 03/10/2018 - 17:08
    +1

    Well done SA for getting on board with this one!..

  • freakatronic on 03/10/2018 - 19:18

    Anything other than natives? There are so few pleasant looking native plants.

  • [Deactivated] on 03/10/2018 - 20:31

    I don't think this is a deal to give away trees, once the trees get to X size one needs Council permission to manage them. My neighbour called the Council after I cleared a few with a D9.

    Sure giveaway shrubs and bushes to encourage LBBs.Maybe a few fruit trees.

  • Lancerx on 03/10/2018 - 22:14

    Still going? The armadale council showing the article from 2017

  • AssociatedFlanders @ Logan City Council on 03/10/2018 - 23:51

    They give out the composted soil also in some council areas. I know Kiama Council has done this.
    Giving out bags of green waste which has been composted by them, I think that is how it works. What you put in green bin, they make it into soil, then gift it back to residents.
    Edit: Had to come back and click associated. I wanna be a Logan-Bogan lol ;)

  • Msquared on 04/10/2018 - 00:22

    Stirling (WA)

  • farknos on 04/10/2018 - 08:38
    +2

    Funny Belmont in WA years ago removed every second street tree as it was their brain storm to save money on pruning them, my old man had a corner block with 4 street trees and wanted to keep them all (he could see the bigger picture unlike the turds on the council) so he ended up putting in a letter committing to pruning all 4 of the trees so they could stay. now the same council is planting street trees this year with out any consultation. True government

  • Riversdale28 on 11/10/2018 - 14:05

    I have inquired of Mornington Shire and this DOES NOT APPLY

  • x x on 27/03/2024 - 12:29

    The correct link for Gold Coast:
    https://www.goldcoast.qld.gov.au/Environment-sustainability/…

  • sistermay on 27/03/2024 - 12:33

    I just got a quote of $3900 to cut down and grind stump of a tree on my investment property at Logan. Trees should stay in the park, not near your property, the costs it will inflict on your property in future could be astronomical, you are warned !

    • brenwildman on 27/03/2024 - 13:37
      +2

      Imagine how much of your rates are going into tree maintenance in those parks as well. It's a pretty good racket. Council is doing a good investment by offering 'free plants' that they and croney associates will recoup massive maintenance revenue in future.

  • blackjacknz on 27/03/2024 - 12:40

    City of Swan (WA) https://www.swan.wa.gov.au/waste-and-sustainability/free-tre…
    Pick up in June 2024

  • tomw20 on 27/03/2024 - 13:06

    Just a heads up sunshine coast is broken op, and I couldn't find any news on it for over 5 years. Seems joever

  • dontbeatightarse on 27/03/2024 - 13:43
    +1

    I want to get rid of trees not get more, leafs everywhere.

  • atomy0606 on 27/03/2024 - 13:45
    -1

    City of Glen Eira (Vic) offers free plant on 28th Apr this year.
    https://www.gleneira.vic.gov.au/services/sustainable-glen-ei…

  • Dogstar on 27/03/2024 - 14:13

    Wollongong council used to do free tree/plant days but I haven't seen one in a while. They do have Adopt-A-Tree though.
    https://www.wollongong.nsw.gov.au/about/environment/trees-an…

  • Varoufakis on 27/03/2024 - 14:26

    Unfortunately I will not plant a tree on my block, even a free one, because once it grows over 5 metres I am extremely restricted in what I can do with it and can never remove it, even if the roots are causing damage to the foundation, driveway etc.

  • MKBHD on 27/03/2024 - 15:36

    VOTING NOT ALLOWED FOR DEALS OVER 180 DAYS BUT COMMENTING AND REPOSTING - SURE !

  • 1st-Amendment on 27/03/2024 - 15:56

    I have not marked this as a freebie as we all need to pay rates!

    Seems obvious but so many people fail to grasp this simple concept.

  • eaddd87 on 27/03/2024 - 16:35

    Hobart link not working

  • spal on 27/03/2024 - 16:58

    Casey link is not working either.

  • ltwo on 27/03/2024 - 17:04

    City of Melville have not commenced the 2024 run. Details still for 2023.

  • woolly on 27/03/2024 - 19:32

    Port Adelaide Enfield Council in SA does this yearly, although registrations for 2024 have closed. Info is here https://participate.cityofpae.sa.gov.au/get-shady

  • quarkz on 27/03/2024 - 21:51

    Gympie link doesn't work but this one does.

  • RaijnAU on 27/03/2024 - 22:03

    City of Greater Geelong in Victoria:

    https://www.geelongaustralia.com.au/trees/article/item/8d142…

  • serpentxx on 28/03/2024 - 07:45

    City of Joondalup in Perth does it but on council verge only, they have or..had a free seed program recently and last year did a waterwise verge garden program

    https://www.joondalup.wa.gov.au/kb/resident/street-tree-plan…

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