Community Nursery – plants going out!!
Over the last month we have had lots of plants leave the nursery for their new homes, notably for Kowhai Reach and Bushy Point Otatara. We have also had a Te Rere planting with plants supplied and taken down to site by James and Maree at Pukerau Nursery. Pukerau are still our very much recommended Native Plant Nursery for Southland so drop in on them if you have larger scale needs than we can supply, or for species we don’t grow.
The Otatara planting stories can be seen at the Otatara Landcare Group website at this link – https://www.otataralandcare.org.nz/news-events/bushy-point-planting-15-september-2024/
And https://www.otataralandcare.org.nz/news-events/bushy-point-otatara-school-planting-5-september-2024/
But, there is always lots of preparation for planting days so on Friday 13th September, our opening day there was lots of activity getting the Bushy Point plants out of the Nursery and onto site in preparation for the Sunday 15th planting. A few photos below of all the action at the Nursery. Now we have some room in the Nursery we will begin the new season’s plants on Friday mornings, but after winter there is a lot of weeding to be done and other Nursery tasks, so if you want to help out come along between 9am and noon, bringing some morning tea to share and we will get into spring!
A couple of events coming up you may be interested in – a talk by wildlife photographer Glenda Rees on Tuesday 17 September – click link and also get your name down for the SERN Bus trip around restoration sites on 16th November. The bus is free but bookings are essential to guarantee your place.
Chris
Posted: 16 September 2024