THURSDAY 4th JUNE, 2009
VISIT TO - LISS FOREST NURSERY
DEPARTS
An evening trip has been arranged to visit
this commercial nursery. Liss Forest Nursery Ltd has, since 1971
been actively working to source and raise a varied range of trees,
shrubs and herbaceous plants to offer to plant centres and Garden
Centres throughout the UK, and latterly into global markets.Many
propagation techniques are utilised to achieve the product mix now
offered weekly to retail outlets, including micro-propagation,
grafting, cuttings and seed
Liss Forest Nursery Ltd markets approximately 500,000 plants per
annum to the trade and industry
Choisya ternata 'Sundance'
All plants men dream of discovering a new plant. Peter Catt of Liss
Forest Nurseries based in Greatham Hampshire did just that. "Choisya
ternata Sundance is a favourite because it has been such a popular
plant. In 1978 I found a very small leaf with a white edge which I
felt could have been variegation.
Having rooted the cutting, I removed the dominant side shoots so
forcing a shoot from the axil of the small leaf and out came a
golden shoot. Having propagated a few plants by cuttings I then used
micropropagation to increase the numbers and we introduced it at
Chelsea in 1986.
Its popularity has placed it in the top ten shrubs virtually ever
since."
Keep looking, that plant that might make your fortune needs to be
discovered. It certainly made Peter Catt his fortune and put him on
the map in the plant breeding world.
