The destruction caused by Cyclone Gabrielle on the East Cape and Hawke’s Bay, fuelled the debate around the future of forestry in New Zealand. The call for change is loud and clear: more and more voices are advocating for a shift from traditional exotic forestry, particularly Pinus radiata, to the restoration and expansion of native plantations.

We are thrilled to announce that Kauri Park Nurseries, with locations in North Auckland and Palmerston North, has received outstanding recognition for our commitment to biosecurity! Earlier this year, we became Plant Pass certified, and our recent audit from Asure Quality has left us beaming with pride.

Here at Kauri Park Nurseries, we are proud to proclaim our ‘3-step plastic recycling process’, which we use to reduce our impact on plastic waste and ensure a sustainable and greener future for New Zealand.

In the competitive world of native planting and landscaping, initial costs can often mislead stakeholders, tempting them to opt for seemingly cheaper options. However, true savings and success lie in the quality and size of the plant at planting.

As you know at Kauri Park we call ourselves ecovitalists because we want to see New Zealand’s ecosystems teeming with vital life. And what does all life need? Water. The better the quality of the water, the better the quality of all life.

Is there anything more cool, calm and collected than a forest? A walk into the depths of a forest can feel as restorative as a swim on a hot summer’s day. As our days get longer and the sun rises higher and higher in the sky you’re just as likely to find us retreating to the forest as beating a path to our local beach.

We’ve been fascinated by the tenacious ‘tea tree’ for decades. It’s a powerhouse plant that was once much maligned but is now being seen for all its incredible gifts. This is a story of redemption and about the power of never giving up – and those are always fun.

One hundred seconds is the closest we have ever been to ‘midnight’. What’s this got to do with us? Well, just above everything. It means that we’re in a race against time for the restoration of the planet that we call home.

Aotearoa is a land of forests. Did you know that forest covers 38% of New Zealand land? That’s right, we have a whopping 10.1 million hectares of forests. Of this: 8 million hectares are native forest and 2.1 million hectares are plantation (exotic species) forest.

An ecosystem is defined as any “biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.” But we really like the definition that our old friends at National Geographic use: “An ecosystem is a geographic area where plants, animals, and other organisms, as well as weather and landscapes, work together to form a bubble of life.”

We’re ecovitalists at heart – we believe in the power and beauty of nature and we think Mother Nature is really the one in charge. We say that she’s really our only client. So when we looked around we saw that she had many priority projects and the clock was ticking on all of them.

We’ve always said that our plants feel like they’re on a mission and that they feel the urgency like we do. We’ve always said that we’re environmentalists but we don’t tie ourselves to trees, we just keep planting them. Well, we decided that it was time to tell that story and get into serious action with a big vision and an audacious (ambitious) mission.

The season starts when the flowers arrive in the Far North and the daytime temperature is warm enough to generate and secrete the flow of nectar into the flower. Nectar is produced by glands called nectaries. Nectaries can be located on any part of a plant, but the most familiar nectaries are those located in flowers (called “floral nectaries”).

The number of plants over 25 years was fascinating for us. In a rounded number to the nearest million, Kauri Park have grown 114,000,000 plants for New Zealand.