Revegetation and restoration projects are delicate processes. They involve the use of native plants and bushes to restore a piece of land to its natural state. It’s not enough for your plant supplier to have a basic knowledge of botany. Your supplier must who know all the different native plant species of New Zealand and have a deep understanding of how these grow, spread and adapt to different environments.
If a plant supplier doesn’t know these things, then he or she really doesn’t know how to take care of a nursery. Chances are he’ll end up wasting time money and resources as the revegetation project progresses.
The Importance of Seed Eco-Sourcing
It takes careful planning to set-up and install native plant nurseries. Eco-sourcing native seeds, for instance, is important because it’s a sustainable way to maintain your nursery. It helps preserve native species, and ensure resilient plant stock for revegetation and ecological restoration projects.
A native plant nursery that uses and encourages the use of eco-sourced seeds is also cost effective. Eco-sourced plants adapt easily to different soil conditions, which helps cut down maintenance costs of restored areas. It also reduce costs if ever you want to revegetate more land in the same area.
The Importance of having an extensive catalogue of native plants
As a supplier, you should have an extensive catalogue of wholesale native plants for revegetation. Just because it’s a native plant doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the right type of plant to thrive in that kind of environment or location.
Given the wide ecological and geographical variations of the islands, it’s best to work with a nursery that’s sure to have the right kind of flora for any environment. In doing so, you will have a wide variety of native plants to choose from. You’ll be able to select what’s best suited for the location; plants that would surely thrive and greatly benefit the land and environment around it.
The importance of having an in-house nursery manager
Native plant nurseries need constant monitoring, so an in-house nursery manager will needed for huge revegetation projects. An in-house nursery manager not only takes care of the nursery. Their extensive knowledge and experience with native plants and revegetation would be invaluable in planning and implementation.
An in-house nursery manager would be invaluable to these projects because of their knowledge on what kind of native plants would work. Unlike conventional plant species, native plants have specific needs and characteristics to adapt to their environment. For example, most eco-sourced plants are disease-resistant but it also depends on the type of plant, soil conditions, weather, altitude, etc, on how effective these plants would be. The expertise of a nursery manager would help you save time and money by choosing the right kind of native plants for your restoration even before you start planting.
The Importance of Ecologist Participation During Revegetation
We at Rural Designs take pride in the fact that we have ecologists actively involved in all our revegetation projects. Even though revegetation is an activity that some property owners do themselves, having an ecologist as part of the planning and implementation has greatly contributed to the success our projects.
Having an ecologist that’s actively involved in our native plant nursery operations helps ensure that the plans are feasible and cost-effective, and the planting is done efficiently with minimal impact and effort.
Our ecological risk and impact assessment planning covers the physical, biological, social and even stakeholder participation for the revegetation of your property. Every action has an environmental impact, even planting. The assessments conducted by our ecologists, with considerations to its immediate impact in the community, will help determine the kind of native plants for your property, minimize environmental impact revegetation and maximize the effects of the ecological restoration process.
The Importance of Planting Experience
A native plant nursery should also have its own planting services. For revegetation projects to be successful, real life experience is essential. A well rounded native plant nursery that has extensive knowledge of its catalogue, plus experience in planning, design, and implementation would help ensure the success and effectiveness of any restoration project.
Our extensive experience with project management and implementation gives you more flexibility in planning for those native plants as part of your revegetation. Our catalogue also has a wide array of native plant collection for you to choose from, to adapt to every kind of environment and soil conditions. We at Rural Designs are more than just a nursery, or a design firm, assessment firm, or planting service. We have the well-rounded expertise and resources to would ensure a successful, cost effective, and sustainable revegetation and restoration project.