Tucked behind three suburban blocks on Patrick Street, this is a nursery grown from a backyard hobby into a genuine repository of Australian flora. Peter Bevan began in 1997, and what he's built since is less a shop than a living collection — ground covers, dry-vine shrubs, small to large shrubs, trees, rainforest species, palms and ferns, all raised on-site with a particular fondness for rare and endangered natives. The scale is domestic, the knowledge is not: Peter's real interest lies in finding new species out in the bush and coaxing them into garden-worthy plants, and he's happy to talk through whatever's newest on the benches. That same instinct spills out beyond the nursery gate — down the old Brisbane Valley rail line, Peter has planted some five and a half thousand natives along a two-kilometre stretch near the Lowood Golf Club, a self-funded, volunteer-led project now known locally as Pete's Corner, which the Somerset Regional Council has since backed as well. Group tours of that garden can be arranged through the nursery. On Sundays you'll also find Pete's stall at the Fernvale Country Markets. Back on Patrick Street, the nursery keeps easy hours — seven days, 8am to 4pm, with EFTPOS on hand — serving gardeners across greater Brisbane who want plants suited to birds and butterflies as much as backyards.