Growing Acacia - A Beginner’s Guide

A beginner's guide to growing Acacia at home that explores botanical classification, uses, ethnobotanic species, identification techniques and resources, conservation, germination, cultivation, and planting out.

This workshop aims to make tree growing accessible to all, with no prior experience, knowledge or greenhouse necessary. Participants will have the opportunity during the workshop to pot up their own seedlings to take home.

Some ground we will cover in the workshop;

- Acacia in a global context
- Locating and identifying species
- Species of interest
- Conservation
- Seed development and dormancy
- Germination of alpine and non-alpine species
- Inoculation or not
- Germination media
- Propagation at home
- Potting up
- Direct seeding
- Vegetative propagation
- Pests and diseases
- Planting out or potting on
- Pruning