Free 'Botany for Beginners' workshops

Discover how to identify currently flowering plants. Peek into the various components of each plant using magnifying glasses.

Learn how to create dry plants with a miniature plant press made from cardboard, paper towel and plants for drying. Attendees receive a work sheet and tips on how to access the Queensland Herbarium services as well as a native plant to take home.

Free. Registration essential. All materials supplied. Ages 16 and over.

Be inspired by Kathleen McArthur

Take an audio journey through Kathleen McArthur’s life in Libraries Heritage podcast series. Kathleen McArthur campaigned to preserve landscapes threatened by economic development. She worked to preserve locations including the Pumicestone Passage, Great Barrier Reef, Sunshine Coast beaches, and the Cooloola National Park in the 1960s and 1970s.

Listen to Kathleen's Lunch Hour Theatre Scripts or access them via your preferred podcast provider.

Native Plants

Over 1600 individual flora and fungi species have been recorded within the Sunshine Coast's boundaries. Head here for more on how to preserve and protect native plants in your area.

• Native plants
• Community native nurseries 
• Native plant identification 

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Check out these titles available at Sunshine Coast Libraries

• Save Discovering Australian flora : an Australian National Botanic Gardens experience to your current list
• Save ACE guide to eucalypts Brisbane to your current list
• Save Name that Flower [electronic resource] : The Identification of Flowering Plants to your current list
• Save A field guide to native plants of Bribie Island and nearby coastal South-east Queensland to your current list
• Save Mangroves to mountains : a field guide to the native plants of south-east Queensland to your current list
• Save Sedges rushes & restiads of the Noosa Biosphere Reserve & surrounding regions to your current list
• Save Noosa's native plants : Noosa Biosphere Reserve, The Sunshine Coast, Cooloola and Fraser Island : with information about fungi, lichens, mossees, liverworts and a bird list to your current list
• Save Grasses : native & introduced grasses of the Noosa Biosphere Reserve & surrounding regions to your current list
• Save Eucalypts of the Sunshine Coast and the coast from Bundaberg to Coffs Harbour to your current list