Nursery Design and layout

1. Commercial Plant Production Nursery Design and layout

2. Stock blocks – sherman’s nursery, ia Areas in the nursery where plants are raised for cutting propagation. Usually irrigated. Annual rejuvenation pruning.

3. Propagation Area – sherman’s nursery, ia Place in the nursery where plant propagation occurs: Cutting propagation, seed propagation, grafting, etc.

4. Propagation Area – Hines horticulture, CA

5. disinfecting cuttings – hines horticulture, ca

6. cutting preparation and sticking – hines horticulture, ca

7. Small plant culture – synnestvedt nursery, IL Protection Provide conditions for optimal plant growth. Place where small liners are grown into larger liners.

8. Container production area – hines horticulture, ca

9. Container production area – hines horticulture, Ca

10. B&B shrub production area – synnestvedt nursery, il

11. b&B tree production area – dwighthughes nursery, ia

12. B&B tree production area – dwighthughes nursery, ia Notice the grass strips between production blocks.

13. holding area – Dwight hughes nursery, ia Gravel or paved area used to hold plant material after it has been harvested. Irrigated. Sometimes called a Holding Yard, or just “Yard”.

14. office/administrative area - monrovia nursery headquarters Yeah, right!

15. equipment storage – morton building

16. loading area At a smaller nursery the Loading Area is often just part of the Holding Area.

17. potting area – hines horticulture, ca Place in a nursery where liners are transplanted into containers.

18. potting area – hines horticulture, ca

19. potting soil (medium) preparation – hines horticulture, ca

20. inside cold storage – sherman’s nursery, ia Place in a nursery where bare-root stock can be maintained in a dormant condition prior to lining-out. Temperature controlled. Humidity controlled. Imagine working in here all winter-people do!

21. walk-in cold storage This unit is similar to what we have in the Horticulture/Floral Careers building.

22. lathe house May be included in a holding area. Provides shade and irrigation to help “acclimate” freshly dug plant material.

23. shade house – hines horticulture, ca May be included in a holding area. Provides shade and irrigation to help “acclimate” freshly dug plant material. May also be part of a production area. Provides shade for those crops that require it.

24. seed beds Seed may be directly sown into a bed like this or seedlings may be transplanted into the bed.

25. pesticide storage

26. water source and pump house – synnestvedt nursery, il

27. water source – hines horticulture, ca

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