The network behind the plant.
Sequoia Valley Farms is a specialist sourcing nursery in the NSW Southern Highlands. We find rare, advanced and hard-to-place plants — and handle everything it takes to bring them to you, carefully, anywhere in Australia.
We start with what you’re looking for.
Most nurseries sell you what’s on the bench. We work the other way around. Tell us the plant — a rare cultivar, an advanced specimen, a hundred trees for a windbreak — and our job begins: finding it through the right accredited grower, wherever in the country that happens to be, then consolidating, preparing and moving it to you.
The plant, in a sense, is only the doorway. What we really do is the sourcing, the coordination, and the unglamorous, exacting work of moving living things across state lines and long distances in good health. It’s a quieter kind of expertise than a showroom — and it’s the part that’s genuinely hard to find.
Why a logistics person grows rare trees.
I didn’t come to this from horticulture. For years, I worked in travel technology — building systems, negotiating airline contracts, and running logistics for brands across the country. It was high-pressure work, and the part most people found impossibly complicated — moving things through tangled networks, on time and in one piece — was the part I was good at. That turns out to matter more than you’d expect from a nursery.
The plants were always there underneath. I grew up among the cool-temperate rainforests of the Dandenongs — tree ferns, Myrtle Beech, Sassafras and the mighty Mountain Ash — and never quite shook the sense that those older, quieter landscapes were the ones that mattered. After a period of serious burnout, I went back to them properly: the science, the soils, the deep evolutionary history of these species, and how to grow and nurture them. The first I ever raised was a coast redwood, Sequoia sempervirens — which is how this place got its name.
What began as a few species I loved grew into something larger almost by accident. I’ve never been good at saying “no” to a hard request, and it turned out most nurseries wouldn’t touch the complicated ones — the rare specimen, the interstate freight, the forestry-scale order. That was exactly the work I’d spent a career learning to do, so I leaned in. The sourcing and logistics are most of what we do now, but the reason hasn’t changed: I think about these trees in deep time. I’m their custodian for a little while, and my job is to get the right ones into the right hands so they outlast all of us. You don’t grow rare plants from seed and cuttings to get rich — I do it because I’d like to leave more of these trees in the world than I found.
— Shannon
A network, not a catalogue
Our real inventory isn’t a shelf — it’s the relationships behind it. If a plant can be legally grown and moved within Australia, we can usually find it, then consolidate from multiple growers into a single, well-planned delivery.
Sourced through accredited growers
We source only through accredited and certified growers — including NIASA-accredited and BioSecure HACCP-certified suppliers — so every plant arrives healthy, traceable and compliant.
Cared for, coast to coast
We treat plants for the journey and time dispatch for safe travel, and we manage the strict biosecurity pathways into WA, the NT and Tasmania through our Plant Concierge, where licensed specialists handle any treatment required.
From a single rare specimen to a forest.
We work with private collectors and rare-plant hunters, acreage and rural property owners, forestry and restoration projects, and landscapers and designers — right up to public collections including the Australian National Botanic Gardens, the National Gallery of Australia, the Southern Highlands Botanic Gardens and Australia Zoo. Some come for one extraordinary tree; others for staged supply across a project’s life. We’re built for both.
Rooted in the Southern Highlands.
We’re based in Mittagong, in the cool-climate NSW Southern Highlands — well suited to the deciduous trees and cool-climate conifers at the heart of what we do. We’re a sourcing-and-dispatch operation rather than a retail nursery, so there’s no public garden to wander; if you’d like to collect an order in person, you’re welcome to arrange it with us.
Looking for something in particular?
Browse what we have, or tell us what you’re after — the rarer or larger, the better. Either way, you’ll be dealing with people who care how it arrives.