Dawn Hollins, founder of the Cobargo Area Garden Recovery Project, grows plants then holds events to give them away for free to those impacted by the fires.

She has been busy working for the next giveaway, which kicks off on Sunday.

"I have believed for many, many years that one person can make a difference and in a sense I have been doing that," Ms Hollins said.

"People say it has given them hope, and that was exactly my feeling about starting it in the first place."

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The idea for her project was born after the bushfires tore through Cobargo on New Year's Eve.

Ms Hollins had evacuated to Bermagui and met a man in the town's country club who told her his home had been lost.

"He said 'but the thing that hurts the most is we lost the garden. We laboured over the garden for a long time and everything is gone'," she said.

"I thought right, I might be old but that is something I can help with. I can give people plants when they're ready."

While the fire reached the creek at the end of her property her house was saved by her son, who had stayed in town with her son-in-law and together they had protected many homes.

She began growing most of the plants herself, although she does now have extra hands helping her project, and received donations of pots and potting mix to help her along.

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Ms Hollins said being helped to regrow burnt gardens "means an enormous amount" to people who loved gardening.

"You may be living in a caravan on your block, but you can clear away the stuff that's burnt, dig into the soil, and put in something green to bring the birds back," she said.

"It's also been healing for me, knowing you feel better if you do something for other people.

"It always makes you feel better, no matter what your problems may be."

The garden recovery project will hold a spring giveaway, providing free plants for those who lost gardens in the bushfires.

It will run from 10am on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, September 27-29, until all plants are gone and will be outside the fence at 7 Avernus St, Cobargo.

There will be a large range of plants including rhubarb, herbs, ground covers, lavender, japonica, plumbago, succulents, nandina, geraniums, roses, ginger lilies, flag iris, arrowroot, daisies, water plants and more.