IndigiGrow - Matraville Nursery

Tucked along Anzac Parade in Chifley, this outpost of IndigiGrow sits within a project rooted in the critically endangered Eastern Suburbs Banksia Scrub — one of Sydney's rarest plant communities, and the reason this nursery exists at all. Run by First Hand Solutions Aboriginal Corporation, the operation is entirely Aboriginal owned, staffed and run, with young people trained here in propagation and horticulture as much as retail. The bench list leans hard into locally significant natives: darwinia, bauera, coast banksia, hakeas, hop bush, scaevola and heart-leaved shaggy pea among them, alongside native bushfoods that connect the plants to culture and Country rather than just garden design. It's a working nursery in the fullest sense — seedlings raised for restoration and biodiversity corridors as much as for backyards — with a sister site at La Perouse rounding out the operation. Corporate volunteer days bring people in alongside the horticulturists and apprentices, and the shopfront doubles as a quiet form of education about what once grew, and could again, across this stretch of coastal Sydney. Come for plants suited to sandy, coastal ground, and leave with a clearer sense of the landscape beneath the suburbs.