by Cimino | 28 Apr 2008 | Establishment trials
Taupō is a long way from the Mahurangi Harbour. So why, the reader may wonder, this interest in the Taupō Native Plant Nursery. The full story is elsewhere, but briefly, it has everything to do with the elevated sediment accumulation rate in the Mahurangi Harbour. The...
by David Bergin | 12 Nov 2007 | Establishment trials
Nursery manager Philip Smith has got everything well in hand. My assistant Michael and I called in briefly last Monday at Taupō Native Plant Nursery, on way to a week working on a Wellington project. All the seed supplied from Mahurangi, from Rodney Straka and Jane...
by David Bergin | 17 Oct 2007 | Pioneering
Letter What a great photograph of Jaap! Jaap’s reference to Harry at the end of his Notes for the Nursery at Taupō is Harry Bunn, former director of the biggest division at Forest Research Institute for many years up to his retirement in the mid-1980s. Harry, who died...
by Jaap van Dorsser | 25 Sep 2007 | Establishment trials
We assume that the polythene planter bag and Hillsons Rootrainer stock is going to be raised as per standard practice at Taupō. Taupō Native Plant Nursery’s way of doing things is probably little different from any other container nursery, so there is no need to...
by Cimino | 25 Sep 2007 | Establishment trials
Sunday, Dr David Bergin and his assistant, his eldest son Michael, stopped at Mahurangi West on their way back from Northland. David and Michael had spent the previous week thinning and pruning naturally–regenerating stands of tōtara on farmland. It is a Northland...
by Cimino | 31 Aug 2007 | Establishment trials
The Sustainable Farming Fund is laudably flexible. Recipients of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry’s fund are urged to speak up if, partway into a project, better outcomes can potentially be achieved by re-jigging the plan. The pilot open-ground indigenous...
