What Nurseries look like

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What Nurseries look like

• A quick tour of nurseries to find out what we
  would expect to see.

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Nurseries are the places that are designed for
plant propagation.
Propagation is growing new plants.
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Nurseries have special work spaces and buildings

Here are a few examples
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Bins for storing potting and seed mixes
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A tidy well organised potting shed
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Benches and containers for handling bulk plants
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Green houses provide the protection needed by
tender young plants
Photos with permission from Redpath Greenhouses
http//www.greenhouse.co.nz/
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Sometimes they are very big
Photos with permission from Redpath Greenhouses
http//www.greenhouse.co.nz/
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The light and easy care roof structure of a
modern green house
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Automatic roof vent controls make life easy
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Sturdy benches in the green house
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Built in watering systems
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A temperature probe and the controllers make
heating automatic
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Shade houses protect our fragile new plants
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Protection from strong sun and damaging winds
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Irrigation nozzles for misting
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Electronic solenoid valves for automatic watering
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Overhead sprinklers to cover the big areas
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Out door areas for growing bigger plants and
rootstocks
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Apple rootstocks
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Cutting rootstocks with pneumatic pruners
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Fruit trees and grapes healed into sawdust to
keep the roots moist
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Heres a few photos to show what plant
propagation in action looks like?
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Feijoa cuttings ready for the next step..
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Well rooted and lifted from the sand they have
been in..
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..and potted into their individual pots.
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These seedlings are grown in foam blocks
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Easy to handle. Disease free and no root damage
when transplanted
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These cuttings struck (rooted)in pumice
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Peach seedlings in the protective environment of
a tunnel house
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..and in individual root cells to make them easy
to remove for transplanting.
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These apple rootstocks have been graded and
trimmed ready for bench grafting
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The grafter prepares the union between the
rootstock and scion..
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..a whip and tongue graft union.
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Sometimes budding is used.
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The finished table grafted apples ready for the
callusing room.
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The end product, plants ready for sale.
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A well stocked retail area
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Cabbage trees
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Pittosporum
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Labelled and ready for sale
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