NZPPI member Coastlands Plant Nursery has won the 2022 NZ Plant Conservation Network's ‘Plant Nursery Involved in Plant Conservation’ award for its amazing ability to grow and provide eco-sourced native plants including threatened species from seed or cuttings on request.
The NZPCN awards recognise special people, and projects that have captured the interest of local communities. These individuals and groups are the leading guardians of our country’s native plants and ecosystems.
Whakatane-based Coastlands, owned and managed by Jo Bonner, specialises in supplying quality eco-sourced native plants for sand dune restoration and coastal erosion and produce some 500,000 plants annually. In the summer, nursery staff travel all over the North Island and top of the South Island collecting spinifex, pīngao, and other dune plant species. Coastlands has grown many threatened plant species over the years for specific projects for planting back into natural areas, including sand daphne, sand coprosma, Olearia pachyphylla, and native spinach.
In its awards accolade, NZPCN said that “Coastlands love what they do and nothing is too difficult; if it’s a species hard to grow or on the brink of extinction they are happy to grow it for you. Jo Bonner is very experienced, knowledgeable, and passionate about plants and ensures that all stock is ecosourced and planted back in the appropriate Region. Coastlands grow plants for many regions throughout the North Island and top of the South Island, all of which is rigorously tracked from collection to dispatch to ensure ecosourcing.”