2025 Native Plant Giveaway
The 2025 Native Plant Giveaway has now closed. This year, we trialled a fairer selection process through an Expression of Interest and lottery system to ensure that everyone had an equal chance to participate and be selected (rather than a first-come, first served basis). Households selected through the random draw will be notified via email between Monday, 28 April and Friday, 2 May.
What is provided:
- A limited number of City of Melville households will be randomly selected to receive up to 10 free local native plants from Apace Nursery.
- A diverse range of native plants will be available for residents to choose from.
- Plants must be picked up directly from Apace Nursery during the specified pickup weeks. Please note, collections outside of these dates are not accepted. Collection will be from APACE at 1 Johannah Street, North Fremantle, retail nursery opening hours Monday through Friday, 8.30am to 2.00pm and on Saturdays, 8.30am to 12.30pm.
How to participate:
- Register for a ticket to express your interest in the giveaway. The link to register will be available by Tuesday, 1 April. Please remember that plants available are limited and people do miss out. Only register if you are commmitted to collecting the plants.
- Only one ticket will be accepted per household. Additional tickets for the same address will be deleted. Proof of address will be required upon collection.
- After the registration period ends, 520 tickets will be randomly selected to recieve plants. Only ticketholders who were selected through the random draw will be notified and provided with details about how to collect their plants.
Key dates:
- Registration Period: Tuesday, 1 April to Friday, 25 April
- Random Draw and Notification: Monday, 28 April to Friday, 2 May
- Pickup Period: Three weeks in May. Specific dates will be provided to those ticketholders selected in the random draw.
Benefits of Planting Local Native Plants
Planting local native plants has many benefits including the provision of food sources and habitat for native wildlife. Local native plant species (that is plants that occur naturally on one of five soil types within the Swan Coastal Plain) require little to no soil amendments and minimal watering.
There are two main soil types in the City of Melville, being the Karrakatta and Bassendean Soils. To the very west of the City there is a strip of Cottesloe Soil and a small patch of Herdsman Soil in the south eastern section of Kardinya. For more information about native plants and creating habitat suited to your area check out the APACE suburb selector, Waterwise Plant tool by Water Corporation, ReWild Perth, or River Guardians Grow Local Plants Brochures.
ReWild Perth is a great resource for advice on choosing plant species for your area and to support specific wildlife.