Grand Ridge Propagation Nursery in Sea View, Victoria, Australia | Nursery & garden centre

Grand Ridge Propagation Nursery

Locality: Sea View, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 419 006 176

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25.01.2022 A before and after shot of today's planting in a council reserve in Warragul. 400 grasses planted and guarded along a damp strip of ground where the council's mowers always get bogged

24.01.2022 That's a wrap on planting for the season Since I started in June, I have planted about 45,000 seedlings all over Gippsland on hillsides, in gullies, wetlands and windbreaks, with even more seedlings sold for planting by others. It is good to see the last of the crop go out the gate, now it's time to start on the next one....after a couple of days rest.

23.01.2022 How is this for an office, Blue Rock Lake in West Gippsland! The 3 photos are daily progress shots. Day 1 was planted with water loving indigenous shrubs where I basically followed the water flow up the slope. Day 2 and 3 were planted with a mix of indigenous shrub species that won't block the view from the residential area up the hill. The next week will be spent installing weed mat and planting several thousand grasses.

21.01.2022 One of my favourite critters I have never seen, but today I heard it slipping through it's underground burrows while out tree planting. It's the endangered Giant Gippsland Earthworm, which can grow up to 1 metre long and only lives in the area shown on the map, nowhere else in the world, and is the biggest earthworm on the planet . It is the ultimate goldilocks creature, it can't be too wet, or too dry or else it will die, and are generally found only on south facing slopes... close to creek lines and soaks in the Strzelecki Ranges of West and South Gippsland. The sound they make as they move along their underground burrows is best described as pulling a stuck gumboot out of the mud, and I stumbled onto a colony about 20 metres by 10 metres in size, hearing almost 10 gurgles in as many minutes, so it is a fairly active colony. So the catch is, I am planting the site out, but these guys are really sensitive to changes in soil hydrology, and drying the soil profile out from too many trees could actually wipe out the colony. As soon as I knew what was going on, I stopped planting Eucalyptus trees and other large bushes, and switched the mix to grasses and small shrubs, which have smaller mature root systems. This should not have any effect on the moisture levels into the future and preserve the colony (note: please don't try to dig up a Giant Gippsland Earthworm, they are an endangered species and you will most likely kill it in the process). See more

20.01.2022 Getting some of the small planting jobs done before tackling the one's in four figure numbers. Thse are a couple of infill sites in Warragul and Nilma for the council parks that I maintain for the shire. These corridors form green veins through the towns which are a haven for all sorts of wildlife

20.01.2022 Most of the native seedlings that I plant are in hiko trays rather than tubes. This little video shows how there is less bending over involved by using a Potiputki planter, making the job quicker and easier on the body as well. I planted 1600 grasses today in very damp soil, 6 per square metre, in less than 5 hours (that's about 1 every 11 seconds). This site is at Blue Rock Lake in West Gippsland and makes for a rather pleasant office for a couple of weeks.

19.01.2022 Have you ever wondered what those knobby bits are on a wattle's roots? Acacias have root nodules containing bacteria (Rhizobium species), capable of taking up atmospheric nitrogen and converting it into a form usable by the plant. Root nodules, an anatomical modification of the plant root, caused by these specific bacteria, are the result of a symbiotic relationship between the plant and bacteria. The bacteria take in atmospheric nitrogen and by use of an enzyme make it available to the host plant. The host tree makes sugars available to the bacteria in return. A similar process occurs in clover, lucerne, beans and other legumes!

18.01.2022 920 trees and shrubs planted today on a property north of Leongatha. My daughter helped out today and we were on site for 6 hours. That's a planting rate of 1 seedling every 23.5 seconds!!! About 5 years ago I planted out a landslip on the same property and they are looking fantastic! The soil has been stabilised, the dairy cattle are getting shade and shelter, and it is starting to create it's own microclimate for the local fauna.

17.01.2022 Delivery day yesterday for a 9000 plant revegetation project in South Gippsland. It is really wet around here at the moment, so they will get a great start

17.01.2022 The hardest part of a large scale revegetation project is getting the random spacing right. Too close together and you will not fill the site. Too far apart and you have to go over the site again infilling. This week while the weather has been settled, I have taken the opportunity to get some site preparation done, with 11500 spots sprayed across 5 properties (4 dairies, 1 lifestyle). I count the spots as I go, writing the number per knapsack down when I refill. By doing this, it is possible to make slight adjustments to the spacing so that the allocated plants are evenly distributed across the entire planting area by estimating the % of the site done compared to the number of plants. It's not easy!

16.01.2022 Day one of the last stretch of planting for the season with a lazy 20,000 still to go. 12,000 of them are at a very delayed Gippsland Water job at Blue Rock Lake (Willow Grove), the rest scattered on private property. There is five days of planting for this project at Poowong which is 3600 tubes on a dairy funded by Melbourne Water. The ground is still soft enough and with showers forecast all week, they will get going well. I am feeling rather fortunate to still be operating our business at full capacity

16.01.2022 Tree planting is in top gear at the moment. Two adjoining dairy farms have fenced off about two kilometres of eroded creeklines creating a continuous corridor with 8000 indigenous trees, shrubs and grasses going in. Soil conditions are perfect with moisture levels great and the spot spraying in June knocking down the highly fertilized pasture grasses to give the seedlings a chance to establish

13.01.2022 13,000 seedlings graded out and ready for us to plant on some Melbourne Water funded projects in West and South Gippsland. They are all mixed indigenous species orders ranging from grasses up to huge growing Eucalypts, habitat for the future and cleaner water

11.01.2022 We have just had the first ten metres of potting mix delivered, seedlings are germinating and transplanting has commenced at the start of what is going to be a record season of production in the nursery. We already have some large orders in for next season, both for seedlings and planting. If you know that you are going to need native windbreak, revegetation or Manuka plants for the 2021 planting season (200 or more, smaller orders can be covered at the time), let us know now by email ([email protected]) or give me a call on 0419006176 for advice. Our full species list is online at grandridgenursery.com including a lot of information about our Leptospermum program. It's game on

06.01.2022 An early morning shot of the sun rising over our high DHA Manuka (Leptospermum scoparium) plants. They are showing high flower production and are cutting grown plants from the original parent which tested at 14685 DHA. Enjoy your Sunday folks

05.01.2022 Even though Victoria is a bit of a mess at the moment, we are still sending plants interstate through a specialist plant transport company. 500 Leptospermum polygalifolium and 500 Leptospermum brachyandrum were dropped off Thursday midday. I got a phone call from the happy customer in South Australia at 10am Friday and the plants were there in perfect condition!

03.01.2022 Back in the field again today on a horse property with basically no trees on the place (except for what I did here 2 years ago). The ladies are so happy with the results that they want to keep going. It's a very wet site, so swamp gums, paperbark and tea trees are the best species for here

02.01.2022 A bit of 45 degree slope planting this morning on an otherwise gentle site on a dairy in South Gippsland. One more day here to get the 4000 in then I am off to the last job of the season

02.01.2022 Today's gig was at Neerim East, 1400 tubes to go in for a joint Landcare/Catchment Management Authority willow removal project, with half planted today. It is a section of Shady Creek neighbouring a dairy where I planted 4000 a couple of months ago. This will make about 3km of continuous fencing and revegetation along the creek this season. I saw some of the seedlings from the other job and they are doing really well. Some more warmth and rain and they will be off

02.01.2022 Two days of planting has turned into four! This willow removal project on a Neerim South dairy is 4000 plants and funded by Landcare and the Catchment Management Authority. The client picked up 2000 three weeks ago with the intention of planting out half the project themselves. For various reasons, they haven't started yet, and seeing me do 2000 in two days, they have decided that I should do the rest

01.01.2022 Wet has been the theme of the week it seems. Today was the first planting job of the season at a client of several years. Single row windbreaks of swamp gum (Eucalyptus ovata) and swamp paperbark (Melaleuca ericifolia) were planted in rather wet conditions, some in several centimetres of water! These species love the wet

01.01.2022 Today is World Environment Day. I hope you got to spend a bit of time appreciating this wonderful place we call home which we share with the likes of these three Let's work on making it even better

01.01.2022 A row of cypress were removed and have now been replaced with 4 row native windbreaks. Shrubs on the outside rows and mixed gums in the centre 2 rows. In a year's time, the best of the gums will be 2 metres tall like this Manna gum (Eucalyptus viminalis)