Nursery – Tāwharanui Open Sanctuary Society

Nursery Report Summer 2022

We have experienced a very wet spring so we have carried on infill planting into October, all over the park. We found a very wet spot in Workingman’s wetland to plant 50 kahikatea and over 600 wetland grasses- Cyperus and Carex. Muehlenbeckia was planted at Anchor bay, Coprosma repens at Read more…

By Lyn Hamilton-Hunter, 2 years18 January 2023 ago

People pricking out native seedlings at a table

Nursery

Nursery report

After a three-month hiatus, the nursery group got back into action on Thursday 11 November. Since then, under Covid restrictions and guidelines a limited number of volunteers began the task of pricking out about 12,000 seedlings for the 2022 planting season. On 11 November, 400 flax urgently needing a new Read more…

By Jackie Russell, 3 years13 December 2021 ago