1. What Nurseries look like A quick tour of nurseries to find out what we would expect to see.

2. Nurseries are the places that are designed for plant propagation. Propagation is growing new plants.

3. Nurseries have special work spaces and buildings … Here are a few examples

4. Bins for storing potting and seed mixes

5. A tidy well organised potting shed

6. Benches and containers for handling bulk plants

7. Green houses provide the protection needed by tender young plants “Photos with permission from Redpath Greenhouses http://www.greenhouse.co.nz/”

8. Sometimes they are very big “Photos with permission from Redpath Greenhouses http://www.greenhouse.co.nz/”

9. The light and easy care roof structure of a modern green house

10. Automatic roof vent controls make life easy

11. Sturdy benches in the green house

12. Built in watering systems

13. A temperature probe and the controllers make heating automatic

14. Shade houses protect our fragile new plants

15. Protection from strong sun and damaging winds

16. Irrigation nozzles for misting

17. Electronic solenoid valves for automatic watering

18. Overhead sprinklers to cover the big areas

19. Out door areas for growing bigger plants and rootstocks

20. Apple rootstocks

21. Cutting rootstocks with pneumatic pruners

22. Fruit trees and grapes healed into sawdust to keep the roots moist

23. Here’s a few photos to show what plant propagation in action looks like?

24. Feijoa cuttings ready for the next step..

25. Well rooted and lifted from the sand they have been in..

26. ..and potted into their individual pots.

27. These seedlings are grown in foam blocks

28. Easy to handle. Disease free and no root damage when transplanted

29. These cuttings struck (rooted) in pumice

30. Peach seedlings in the protective environment of a tunnel house…

31. ..and in individual root cells to make them easy to remove for transplanting.

32. These apple rootstocks have been graded and trimmed ready for bench grafting

33. The grafter prepares the union between the rootstock and scion..

34. ..a whip and tongue graft union.

35. Sometimes budding is used.

36. The finished table grafted apples ready for the callusing room.

37. The end product, plants ready for sale.

38. A well stocked retail area

39. Cabbage trees

40. Pittosporum

41. Labelled and ready for sale

42. THE END