Buy plants straight from the Royal Botanic Gardens.
Did you know you can buy plants straight out of the Royal Botanic Gardens? The Growing Friends Nursery sells plants that have been propagated using living collections from the gardens, the Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan and the Blue Mountains Botanic Garden Mount Tomah. Not only does this nursery offer a range of native, exotic, rare, hard-to-find and endangered plants, but the money you spend here goes straight to supporting Botanic Gardens projects, which are largely run by volunteers. And it's open six days per week, with plants starting at just five bucks.