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 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

24.01.2022 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

23.01.2022 9500 cuttings done for a coastal order (mostly pig face). The first roots are growing on the Myoporum's I did a couple of weeks ago! I still find it amazing how this process works

21.01.2022 Farm World field days in on this Friday the 26th to Sunday the 28th at Lardner Park near Warragul. This photo shows how it all starts setting up, with the first load of 3000 seedlings dropped off, some trellis put along one side of the site and some pallets for the plants to sit on. We are at our usual spot, site 111. Drop in and say g'day if you are going, ask a few questions and pick up some great native seedlings for the farm!

21.01.2022 A quick trip this afternoon out to Blue Rock Lake to do a bit of site preparation. I planted this site really, really late in the season last year, finishing up on the 12th of November. The shrubs have done really well, most are waist high, the biggest at eye height, with over a 95% survival. The grasses in the weedmat along the lake side are going great and were given a couple of drinks by the local Landcare group over Summer. However, the perimeter grasses have been a failure. After planting the rain stopped and there were a couple of hot weeks, which must have been too much for them. The job this season is to replant about 2000 of them, but in July this time

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

18.01.2022 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

18.01.2022 I have spent a couple of days doing cuttings for a coastal order at Phillip Island, a new hot springs development. This is originally how the business started a bit over 20 years ago, growing plants for gardens, mostly from cuttings. The GFC basically wiped out that side of things and we transitioned rapidly to a revegetation based business to survive (and thrive as it turned out). I still have a philosophy that you can't sell a no (ie, say yes to a request and figure it out later) so here I am, doing about 10,000 cuttings for an order, with 7500 to go. Pictured is coastal rosemary, creeping boobialla and the tree form of boobialla, as well as a few herb rosemary and Grevillea to fill up a tray and be planted in the garden.

16.01.2022 1240 Leptospermum plants heading to Queensland for a trial. The five species are Leptospermum polygalifolium (jelly bush), Leptospermum polygalifolium ssp tropicum (Cardwell tea tree), Leptospermum brachyandrum (silver weeping tea tree), Leptospermum petersonii (lemon scented tea tree) and Leptospermum whitei. We utilise the services of a specialist plant transport company to deliver plants interstate, so the plants arrive in good condition.

16.01.2022 The saga of who has the right to use the word "Manuka" is still bubbling away. One of the interesting aspects of it is that there is no contention with a nursery such as ours selling Leptospermum scoparium plants as Manuka, but the moment the words Manuka and honey are combined, there is an issue.

15.01.2022 Another 10m3 of potting mix delivered today which will hopefully see the 2021 crop finished. The plants are growing slowly this year as we only had 1 day of Summer this season (a Thursday from memory), so for an extended Autumn to get the youngest to size before Winter.

12.01.2022 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

10.01.2022 We are ready to go for the next three days at the Farm World field days. 5300 plants on site ranging from grasses to huge gum trees. If you are going, drop by and say hello, site 111.

10.01.2022 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

10.01.2022 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.

09.01.2022 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!

07.01.2022 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

06.01.2022 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.

05.01.2022 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.

04.01.2022 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

04.01.2022 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

02.01.2022 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

01.01.2022 The view from the office this morning while watering the nursery