Questions

No. You buy from the nursery. WattleGrow shows you which nearby nursery has the plant, and sends you there.

The basic account is free: search plants by postcode, see local stock, use exotic swaps and the planting calendar.

The pilot covers the Mornington Peninsula. Other regions follow after launch.

No. Searching is open. A free account lets you keep a garden, save plants and ask to be told when an incoming plant arrives.

Reference data (national bioregion and vegetation mapping, with Victoria's vegetation classes and flora added), member reports and horticulturist review. Each match shows whether it is verified.

Native means native to somewhere in Australia. Locally indigenous means it occurs naturally in your area. WattleGrow shows both, because a native from another state can be a weed here.

A horticulturist has confirmed the plant-to-region match, or several independent reports agree. Anything else is labelled "member reported", with no guarantee of success.

Yes. Submit a report from the plant's page. A horticulturist reviews it.

Field plantings in southern Victoria are mostly done in early to mid autumn, when soil is warm and rain is returning, so roots establish before summer. On the coast the window runs to the end of spring.

Nurseries update their own stock. Each listing shows when it was last updated, recently confirmed listings rank higher, and listings untouched for 30 days drop out of local search.

The nursery has ordered the plant or is growing it, but it isn't available yet. Native plants are usually propagated three to nine months before they're ready, so incoming plants carry an approximate date.

Nearly gone. The plant still appears in search, flagged so nobody drives an hour for the last two.

Nothing during the pilot. Nurseries are not asked to replace their website or point of sale, and there is no exclusivity.

We verify the business before a listing goes live. A cultivar a nursery adds shows only on that nursery's listing until we verify it.

Not individually. Demand information is aggregated, and a plant only appears in a nursery's figures once enough separate people have searched for it.