So, what’s been happening in the Nursery you might ask? It’s been a great season for planting so far. A cooler wet summer has made the ground condition fantastic for all regenerating and garden planting projects and we’ve been busy! For the first time our native orchids, Phaius australis (Swamp Orchid), have set seed that has […]
Germinating Seeds in Winter – Tips From the Nursery
Winter is here! Time to give up on germinating seeds and shift to knitting little jumpers for the seedlings we already have. Or perhaps I’ll organise an old-sock-drive, the ones with threadbare holes in the toe would do the job nicely; slip them over a pot and leave an escape hatch for any masochistic seedlings […]
Seed Propagation – And So Ends the Journey of the Seed
At long last! After three drawn-out months of scrambling through undergrowth and dangling from tree-tops (seed collection), of gastrointestinal anguish and carpal-tunnel syndrome (seed processing), and of complete and utter phonetic confusion (having to learn Latin just to understand the identification books), the moment of glory has arrived – chucking that damn seed at a […]
