About Us
🌿 Ballarat Advanced Tree Nursery -
Proudly owned and operated by Nathan Bajada and his partner Natasha Hoare. Together, we share a deep passion for gardening, especially lush, parkland-style landscapes. Our home gardens feature a mix of ornamental deciduous trees, Australian natives, evergreen features, rolling green lawns, a water fall and a thriving home orchard.
🌳 Locally Grown, Climate-Ready Trees -
Our 2-acre nursery in Cardigan Village (just outside of Ballarat) is where we grow, select, and climatise every tree for success in the Central Highlands. From the beginning, our mission has been to provide high-quality, affordable trees that are suited and climatized to our local soils and seasons.
👩🌾 A Guided Experience – Every Time
Every visit to our nursery is by appointment only and includes a personal tour led by one of our qualified horticulturist staff. We ensure that every tree you view is suitable for your garden and goals — whether you're planting for privacy, shade, protection, design or sustainability.
🌱 Lessons Learnt – Our Journey
In 2015, we moved to our 7-acre rural block, affectionately named "LINWOOD", in Cardigan. Like many beginners, we planted 400 tube-stock native trees with excitement. But a devastating late black frost wiped out 390 of them — a tough but valuable lesson.
From this day on, we learnt that the secret was to grow our smaller tree stock on in our home nursery until it was more advanced and climatized for our area. The final result would be -
✅ More advanced tree were much more successful in the ground
✅ They tended to deal with our frosts and heat better
✅ They grew at a much quicker rate and had a better structure
✅ We learned to grow trees tougher, slower, and more resilient
✅ We tested, trialled, and adapted – until we got it right
Along the way, people started to notice what we were achieving and over time we grew bigger and bigger, growing trees for friends, family and even other nurseries.
🌿 During COVID, we decided to turn our hobby into a business and significantly expanded our growing systems and retail experience. We conquered the local council for permits to operate and build our nursery to what it is today and finally opened in December 2021.
🌳 Where We Are Now -
In 2025 we are now a trusted and highly rated nursery name in the Ballarat area. We have the largest range of Advanced Trees in the area, as well as a huge range of smaller potted plants, shrubs, ground covers and trees to suit all types of gardening projects. Our nursery grows and stocks over 15,000 trees from 140mm pots up to 1000 litre bags each year. We supply a range of clients including local homeowners, councils, landscapers, schools and more – right across Victoria.
We are proud to offer:
✔️ A personalised & unique customer service experience
✔️ Expert horticultural advice
✔️ Trees that thrive and are climatized for the Ballarat region
✔️ All visits to our nursery are by appointment
✔️ Our entire range is available to view and order online
✔️ Local delivery by our staff using our truck
Our goals are still the same! To provide the best possible customer service experience, price and quality trees for our area.
Nathan Bajada, Owner & Grower
