Native plant nurseries are a dime a
dozen in world wide. You will find at least two nurseries within a county so
much so that your choices in your plants from miniature herbs to towering trees
are, indeed, aplenty.
But just because a native plant nursery provides the best
customer service or the widest range of choices or the nearest location does
not necessarily make it a shoo-in for your purchases.
Quality Plants
Many native plant nurseries are guilty
of selling green stocks (i.e., bare-root, container, and seedlings) to
customers with little to no regard for sustainability of growth when their
seeds are cultivated in the garden. The plant stocks may appear healthy to the
untrained eye but these will soon wither up and die, thus, cheating the
customers out of their money.
You should then ask around from
family and friends, observe the staff of the tree nursery Calgary in their work, and keep a keen eye on the stocks to determine
that, indeed, the nursery has best practices related to healthy cultivation in
place. Don't take the staff members' word for it - observe their practices
while handling their stocks.
Environmental Protection
You should also think beyond the
limits of your garden into the environment at large. Your first step is to
determine the practices of the native plant nursery when it comes to harvesting
from the wild.
The bottom line: native plant nursery has the
responsibility to provide healthy plants for their customers but their harvest
and cultivation should be beneficial to the environment in general and the
community in particular. Even in plant cultivation, social responsibility is a
must for everybody involved because, in the end, everybody should be a steward
of the environment and that includes both customers and native plant nurseries.
