Post 1 – Description of our site. Mel and I have moved into a new house and are keen to develop a food forest. We have a blank canvas to work with so there i...

Being a small Ma and Pa nursery, Mel and I are not breaking any of the Covid - 19 travel restrictions when we drive a short distance along quiet gravel road...

Sorry fellow plant enthusiasts, the shutdown has meant we cannot send out plants, and just as the rain looks like it might be on it's way and planting season...

The distractions of moving house have kept me away from the nursery for ages and poor Mel has been doing just about everything, but at last we are in our new...

Around midnight I get up and put the folding camping chair out in the middle of our paddock, I wrap myself in a sleeping bag and tilt the chair back. The fir...

Big day on Sunday - 21 boxes packed up and sent off with the courier on Monday morning. All over New Zealand there are people planting food forests and subtr...

Watering is a bit of a drag during this dry spell. Lugging a tank of water up the hill and gravity feeding down to the potting shed and shade house takes sev...

Two plants that we are often asked about and that are now ready for sale are the Casimiroa (White Sapote) and Dragon Fruit. We have limited stock and there a...

Wow - who would of thought, https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/garden/118950807/nzs-most-expensive-houseplant-monstera-sells-for-5000-on-trade-me and h...

We had a great response to our email last week and have sent off quite a few surplus plants to their new owners this morning. There doesn't appear to be any ...

Once you get into it there are a number of reasons why the Inga Tree might be a great addition to your sub tropical garden. I haven't had experience with thi...

Here is an article about two guys in Northland looking to use bananas as a means of dairy effluent treatment. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/the-country/news/art...

One of the great things about this business is that we get a chance to meet people who share our passion for subtropicals. Cary (not me, different spelling) ...

There is a fund for Northlanders wanting to set up food forests. The purpose of the Kai Ora Fund is to enable Northlanders to grow and eat nutritious and sus...

A summer sun rises over the low hills that separate our valley from the coast. In the tall eucalypts growing by the stream, a magpie warbles, Down the other ...

A row of guava trees makes a great hedge or boundary planting. The trees themselves are attractive but because they don't grow enormous there is not the futu...

One of the great things about the ques of traffic heading north at this time of year is that Auckland empties out - relatively speaking. We usually take the ...

I was tidying up in the back corner of the bottom orchard today and came across a tree that I previously hadn't taken much notice of but this time it was har...

I find the different names, Pawpaw and Papaya a bit confusing but as far as I can make out they are pretty much interchangeable (at least in New Zealand) des...

Unless someone comes to the house to collect their plants, all our orders are couriered using Fastway Couriers. The country is divided into a number of regio...