Who we are
A nursery,
not a warehouse.
Four hectares at Nook Road, Sheffield. Everything sold here was grown here.
We started in 2019 with a paddock, a secondhand potting bench and about four hundred tubes of blackwood. The idea was simple and hasn't changed: grow the plants here, in the climate they'll actually live in, and get them outside and acclimatised long before they're sold.
That means we're slower than a lot of places and our trees are often smaller for the price. It also means they go into the ground and keep going. A tree that's been hardened off by a Central Plateau winter doesn't much care what your garden throws at it.
Most of the seed for our native lines is collected within an hour of here, so the provenance suits local conditions and local wildlife. The rest of the range is chosen for one reason: it does well in cold, wet, windy Tasmania.
- 4 ha
- Under production on the Nook Road block.
- 340
- Species and varieties currently growing.
- 380 m
- Elevation. Cold air sits here, which is the point.
- 2 yrs
- Minimum time a tree spends with us before sale.
How we work
Four things we
don't compromise on.
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01
Hardened off, not forced
Everything starts under cover, it has to. What matters is what happens next: stock moves outside early and takes the frost and the wind at 380 metres, rather than being held soft and pushed to size with heat.
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02
Roots checked before potting on
Every plant gets looked at when it moves up a size. A circling root corrected at 140 mm is a problem solved; left alone it's a tree that falls over in twenty years.
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03
Local seed where we can get it
Native lines are grown from seed collected nearby, with the collection site recorded. If you need documented provenance for a revegetation job, ask and we'll supply it.
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04
Nothing that harms the insects
We've never used neonicotinoids. There isn't much point selling a plant for bees and then sending it out with something on it that kills them.
The block
Under
Mount Roland.
Nook Road runs along the foot of the mountain, and the cold air rolls down off it every clear night. It's a difficult spot to grow anything soft, which is exactly why the plants that come off it travel so well.