It has been surprising and encouraging to see the speed and diversity with which native flora has begun to spontaneously return to Fernlea, simply as a result of resting the land.
In October 2019, only a year after livestock was removed from the property, an expert team visited Fernlea to walk the perimeter and identify any promising new growth on the property. Thirty-six species of native plants were found, indicating a promising step toward returning the land to its natural state.
Since that time, several more species have been identified. Of particular note is the abundance of the slender wire lily, which is classified as a rare plant in Victoria.
Many of the native species currently found on Fernlea (identified and unidentified) are documented below.
Slender wire lily (Laxmannia gracilis) 
Atriplex Alchetron 
Blady grass (imperata cylindrica) 
Bossiaea 
Bulbine Bulbosa (Bulbine Lily) 
Candles 
Chocolate lily (Arthropodium strictum) 
Cotula (Coronopifolia Buttonweed) Plantago lanceolata (Ribwort plantain) 
Cranberry heath (astroloma humifusum) 
Diurus pardina (leopard orchid) 
Egg and bacon plant (eutaxia obovata) 
Einadia nutans 
Frankenia pauciflora 
Gahnia radula (thatch saw-sedge) 
Helichrysum (unconfirmed) 
Hibbertia Fascicularis and Bossiaea 
Kidney weed (Dichondra repens) 
Leptospermum (unidentified variety) 
Leptospermum continentale (prickly tea-tree) 
Leucopogon parviflorus (beard heath) 
Lomandra filiformis (wattle mat rush) 
Lomandra glauca 
Lomandra Longifolia 
Milk Maids (Burchardia Umbellata) 
Native convolvulus 
Native plantain (unidentified variety) 
Pimelea Humilis (Rice flower) 
Sedge and Cotula 
Unidentified native grass 
unidentified prickly acacia 
Unidentified 
Wahlenbergia 
Wallaby grass (Austrodanthonia caespitose) 
Wedding bush (ricinocarpos pinifolius) 
Xerochrysum 
Yellow rush (junkas pallidis) 
Twining glycine 
Long hair plume grass (Dichelachne crinita) 
Poa 
Tanglehead (Heteropogon contortus)
Plantago lanceolata (Ribwort plantain)
Fernlea 