Two Local Icons, One Botanical Bond

🌿 Lumpy’s Nursery & Landscape Yard

At Lumpy’s we live and breathe green—it’s what we do every day, right here at 27 Chapmans Road, Tuncurry. Our full-sized garden centre offers: cacti & succulents, climbers, colour plants, edibles, grasses, ground-covers, indoor/shade plants, roses, seedlings, trees and shrubs. 
We’re more than a nursery: we’re also a landscape yard, supplying bulk soils, mulches, stones, turf and sands. 
And as you know we are the Mid-Coast’s destination for people who want style as well as substance—with our landscaped car-park, meandering paths, signage on plants so customers can ask by name, and a thoughtful retail experience.

🍺 Pacific Ocean Brewery

Just around the corner (8 Norfolk Close, Tuncurry), Pacific Ocean Brewery is the local craft beer hub: brewing on-site, laid-back coastal vibes and a focus on flavour. 
Beer begins with barley, hops, yeast, water—plants and plant-derived.

What We Have in Common

Here’s the magic: though one business sells plants, and the other sells beer, both share a deep connection to botany, community, craftsmanship and place.

• Plant origin – Both ventures start with the plant world. Lumpy’s grows, sources and curates plants for gardens and homes. Pacific Ocean Brewery uses plant-based ingredients (grains, hops, adjuncts) to craft their beers.

• Craft & curation – At Lumpy’s we carefully source, label, display and advise plants so customers can ‘ask by name’ and make smart choices. At the brewery they are crafting small batches with attention to recipe, flavour, terroir and experience.

• Local experience & place – Both businesses are rooted here in Tuncurry / the Barrington Coast. Both invite locals and visitors to partake: Lumpy’s via garden centre wanderings and gift shop, Brewery via tap-room visits and sharing.

• Lifestyle & community – Whether pushing a trolley of colour plants or enjoying a pint of fresh craft beer, the vibe is relaxed, local, friendly. Both add to the social fabric of the Mid-North Coast region.

• Plant stories – We at Lumpy’s tell stories about plants (care, local climate, natives vs exotics) and the Brewery can tell stories about the plants behind their beer (hops, malt, botanicals). It’s an intersection of horticulture and brew-science.

Feature: The Plant Range at Lumpy’s

Here’s a wrap of the fantastic range we carry.

Highlight categories

• Cacti & Succulents – Perfect for low-maintenance indoor/terrace gardens, sculptural colour and texture.

• Climbers – Vines and creepers to soften fences, create privacy, dress walls in green.

• Colour (annuals/perennials) – Seasonal pops for pots, baskets, garden beds.

• Deciduous & Shade plants – For areas with less sun or to provide seasonal interest.

• Edibles – Herbs, citrus, berries, veggies — gardens you can eat as well as enjoy.

• Grasses & Ground-covers – For low-maintenance expanses, filler layers, texture variation.

• Indoor / Shade plants – Plants that thrive under canopy or in cool, filtered light.

• Roses – Specialists for rose lovers; a feature section for fragrance, colour, classic appeal.

• Trees & Shrubs – Structural backbone for gardens: privacy, screening, focal points.

Why our range stands out

• Our landscaped drive and sign-posted plant beds mean customers can easily identify plants by name and ask for them.

• We offer local delivery and trailer hire — good for larger plants or landscaping jobs. 

• We provide advice tailored to Mid-North Coast NSW climate (coastal, sometimes salty air, summer heat, sandy soils) — planting times, how to choose natives vs exotics, edibles vs ornamentals.

• We integrate the gift-shop + plant-shop combo: making it a destination for both serious gardeners and casual browsers looking for something beautiful.

• Our staff (2 full-time horticulturists + part-time team) are multi-skilled; they understand both plants and the needs of landscaping clients.

• “Want a garden that turns heads? Ask for colour-plants by name, not just “that pink flower” — because we’ve got them labelled.”

• “From edible herbs you can pick, to tropical palms that bring the beach-house feel—our plant range has it all.”

• “Shade-garden or sun-soaked bed? We stock the right plants and we’ll show you how to make them thrive in the MidCoast climate.”

• “You don’t just buy a plant — you buy a story: where it’ll grow, how to care, how it connects to local landscape style.”

Feature: How Craft Beer is Made (and why plants matter)

Now let’s tell the story of craft beer — connect it back to plants, so your blog flows nicely from plants to pint.

The Plant-based ingredients

1. Malts / Grain – Typically barley (a cereal grain). The grain is malted to convert starches to sugars.

2. Hops – The flowers of the hop plant (Humulus lupulus) provide bitterness, aroma, flavour, stability.

3. Yeast – A micro-organism, not a plant per se, but it acts on the sugars derived from plants to produce alcohol and CO₂.

4. Water – While not a plant, the water’s quality (minerals) influences brewing.

5. Adjunct Botanicals / Flavours – Some craft brewers add fruits, herbs, spices — all plant-derived.

The Brewing Process (in brief)

• Mashing: Malted grain is steeped in hot water; enzymes convert starch to fermentable sugars.

• Lautering: The liquid “wort” is separated from the spent grain.

• Boiling: The wort is boiled, hops are added at various times for bitterness, flavour, aroma.

• Cooling & Fermentation: Wort is cooled, yeast is pitched; yeast ferments sugars into alcohol and CO₂.

• Conditioning: Beer is matured/conditioned to develop flavour, clear, carbonate.

• Packaging: Beer is kegged, canned or bottled for the taproom or sale.

Key points:

• Every sip of craft beer is ultimately the result of plant-growth: grain growing in paddocks, hops climbing trellises, botanicals flowering in fields.

• Craft means attention: small-batch, locally made, flavour-driven — this mirrors how a specialist nursery like Lumpy’s curates unusual plants, gives them space to shine.

• The environment matters: just as plants thrive or struggle based on sun, soil, water, so too does brewing depend on ingredient quality, water profile, cleanliness of equipment, and the brewer’s skill.

• Storytelling & local provenance: At Pacific Ocean Brewery the setting is coastal, relaxed, local; at Lumpy’s we are part of this same coastal community with plants, gardens and outdoor lifestyle.