Nursery

WAIPU NURSERY

Our volunteer-led native plant nursery grows thousands of eco-sourced plants each year to restore wetlands, waterways, and biodiversity across the Bream Bay catchments. The nursery serves as a hub for local conservation efforts, supporting riparian planting, wetland creation, and the establishment of ecological corridors from the Brynderwyns to the coast.

We work alongside landowners and community volunteers to supply affordable native plants and share practical know-how for land restoration.

What We Do:
- Grow for Local Projects: Supplying native plants for restoration projects, catchment groups, and local landowners.
- Support Healthy Waterways: Plants are used in riparian fencing, wetland restoration, erosion control to improve water quality and habitat.
-Community Learning: The nursery hosts volunteer days, open sessions, planting events, learn propagation, seed collection, and restoration skills.
- Collaboration: We partner with local landowners and community groups to build hands-on conservation experience.
- Sustainability Focus: We’re developing a long-term model to keep the nursery thriving through community involvement, donations, and plant sales that fund further restoration.

If you are interested in supporting this ongoing project, here is where you may help:
- Seed collection and propagation
- Potting and nursery maintenance
- Helping at planting events
- Assisting with orders and deliveries

Plant orders...we have a wide range of plants for purchase at great rates and that supports the costs of running our nursery. The plant list changes often so please email us.

DOWNLOAD ORDER FORM

If you have plastic plant pots that you can donate please drop them to Waipu ITM (just inside the fence).

Do you have any seedlings such as titoki, swamp maire, kotukutuku (Tree Fuchsia), or anything rare and unusual. Seeds/seedlings must be local & wild sourced, not from planted gardens to ensure that the seed is not a hybridised version.

Do you want to be part of a small group that meets for a few hours a week to look after the nursery? If you’d like to join our nursery volunteer days, please fill in the volunteer form and we will get you set up with updates on volunteer sessions and work schedules.

BECOME A VOLUNTEER