CUTTINGS, SCIONWOOD AND ROOTSTOCKS
The following lists of cuttings and scionwood are from trees that have been collected over the past 25 years. Almost all of them have come from old gardens and orchards around northern New Zealand and have been given to Koanga Institute by families who regard them as Taonga. We have grown all of these trees organically in our selection blocks and home orchards in a wild mixed herbal ley environment.
We are making this range of exciting heritage genetic material available to you so that you can grow your own home orchard, or put in an organic orchard especially suited for selling fruit at a farmer's Market or Community Supported Agriculture.
This material is not for commercial nurseries to use, we have our own licenced nurseries who, in return for the work we do, pay us a royalty, which means we are then able to continue our preservation work.
Each year we are able to add more cultivars to our lists.
If you know of a special fruit tree that:
- is North of the Bombay Hills
- tastes good
- is disease resistant
- is particularly suited to home growers
and you’d like us to hold it in our collection and eventually include it in these lists, please let us know...we will send you a questionnaire to fill in about your tree or you can access the form here.
We have the following plant material available to send out in June-July. Orders will be accepted until June 30th. Growing instructions will be sent with all material.
Kay's book Design Your Own Orchard has a section on rootstocks, explaining their characteristics and what you can graft onto what, or if you really want to learn we suggest you enroll for the propagation and or grafting workshops. Here you can learn how to grow ALL YOUR OWN TREES AND receive ALL THE ROOTSTOCKS YOU NEED TO GROW YOUR OWN ROOTSTOCKS AND GRAFT ALL YOUR TREES. IF YOU'RE KEEN TO SAVE TREES IN YOUR OWN LOCAL AREAS THIS WORKSHOP WILL TEACH YOU ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW.
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