Production Nursery
Episode: SA Waterwise Special – Our Changing Climate
Presenter: Neville Passmore
Heynes Wholesale Nursery at Burton was first registered in 1869, which makes it the oldest registered nursery business in Australia. Over those years that have become pretty smart about sourcing their water as well as how they use their water and reuse it.
Even during the time of drought, there has been plenty of water available to keep all their plants growing because the nursery are being supplied water directly from the Salisbury Council Wetlands, which is right next door.
When water is flowing, the wetlands area next door is completely flooded. Water is collected from the flood plains and fed down a bore and stored underground. When the nursery needs water, the bore pumps water back to the surface, along a pipe to storage tanks on the property.
Making sure the water quality is right before being used is critical. Treatments using acid to correct the pH, filtration to remove solids and a UV system to finally disinfect it, means this water is as good as it gets for the plants.
Overhead sprinklers and drippers are used to irrigate the thousands and thousand of plants throughout the nursery. Everything from trees, shrubs and ground covers are absolutely booming with this water.
None of the water that is used on the plant at the nursery is wasted, it is collected up and then it flows back into the wetlands for recycling.
Heynes Nursery is absolutely jam packed with an incredible selection of waterwise plants, every size shape and colour that you can imagine is available.
Some stand outs for Neville are the; ‘Red Brazilian’ Jasmine (Mandevilla ‘Crimson Fantasy’), It loves the heat and has underground tubers that make it drought tough, the Purple leaf Cottonwood (Hibiscus Tiliaceus) it is fast growing, bushy and heat loving.
How about the Falkland Islands Box (Buxus microphylla ‘faulkner’) it is a new form of the hedging box that is disease resistant, evergreen and as tough as old boots.
Neville takes his hat off to forward thinking nurseries like Heynes Nursery, who supply top quality plants to garden centres and landscapers right across the country and they are using recycled water.
Presenter: Neville Passmore
Heynes Wholesale Nursery at Burton was first registered in 1869, which makes it the oldest registered nursery business in Australia. Over those years that have become pretty smart about sourcing their water as well as how they use their water and reuse it.
Even during the time of drought, there has been plenty of water available to keep all their plants growing because the nursery are being supplied water directly from the Salisbury Council Wetlands, which is right next door.
When water is flowing, the wetlands area next door is completely flooded. Water is collected from the flood plains and fed down a bore and stored underground. When the nursery needs water, the bore pumps water back to the surface, along a pipe to storage tanks on the property.
Making sure the water quality is right before being used is critical. Treatments using acid to correct the pH, filtration to remove solids and a UV system to finally disinfect it, means this water is as good as it gets for the plants.
Overhead sprinklers and drippers are used to irrigate the thousands and thousand of plants throughout the nursery. Everything from trees, shrubs and ground covers are absolutely booming with this water.
None of the water that is used on the plant at the nursery is wasted, it is collected up and then it flows back into the wetlands for recycling.
Heynes Nursery is absolutely jam packed with an incredible selection of waterwise plants, every size shape and colour that you can imagine is available.
Some stand outs for Neville are the; ‘Red Brazilian’ Jasmine (Mandevilla ‘Crimson Fantasy’), It loves the heat and has underground tubers that make it drought tough, the Purple leaf Cottonwood (Hibiscus Tiliaceus) it is fast growing, bushy and heat loving.
How about the Falkland Islands Box (Buxus microphylla ‘faulkner’) it is a new form of the hedging box that is disease resistant, evergreen and as tough as old boots.
Neville takes his hat off to forward thinking nurseries like Heynes Nursery, who supply top quality plants to garden centres and landscapers right across the country and they are using recycled water.
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