The Hobart Group of the Australian Plants Society Tasmania has compiled this booklet to introduce gardeners to the joys of growing local native plants in their gardens. Further information on growing these and many more local native plants can be obtained at Society meetings and from our website. The booklet covers plants in the southern Natural Resource Management region (approximately south and east of a line from the Freycinet peninsula, west through to Derwent Bridge, then south to Strathgordon and Port Davey.) It will be available FREE from Tasmanian State Libraries, municipal offices in the region, the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens and the Sustainable Living Centre. Copies will also be available from Nurseries that stock local native plants: Plants of Tasmania Nursery                  65 Hall St Ridgeway                    03 6239 1583 Pulchella Nursery                             5598 Tasman Highway Buckland     03 6257 5189 Leslie Vale Nursery                            645 Leslie Road Leslie Vale           03 6239 6081 Redbreast Nurseries                          1709 Channel Highway Margate      03 6267 2871 and Member nurseries of Nursery and Garden Industry Tasmania. This booklet is an Australian Government Envirofund project funded through the Natural Heritage Trust program.