NURSERY

NURSERY

a commercial unit which function in producing or collecting plant materials for sale or rental
classification
1. ownership
  1. private industry
    1. proprietorship
    2. partnership
    3. corporation
  2. government agencies
    1. district
    2. city
    3. state
    4. federal
  3. education institute
    1. arboretum
    2. botanical gardens
    3. universities
2. function
  1. landscape nursery
    1. propagate and produce planting materials
    2. Var de Kamp (M) Sdn Bhd
  2. retail nursery
    1. various planting material
    2. small scale production
    3. cheap, quality plants
    4. ex Sg Buluh (Selangor Green Land)
  3. landscape nursery
    1. ornamental, planting on ground
    2. produce planting materials for sale
    3. Advanced Planting Material (APM)
    4. provide and sell landscape services; planting materials and lanscape plans
    5. customers
      1. individuals house owners
      2. industrial or housing area
      3. office complex and building
      4. instituition
        KLCC
        highway
        KLIA
        Bukit Jalil
  4. wholesale nursery
    1. sell in bulk
    2. large scale
    3. good input source
    4. economical production cost
    5. specialty products
    6. supply to:
      1. landscape nursery
      2. garden center
      3. retailer
      4. institution
      5. individual
    7. ex YG Park Sdn Bhd
  5. mail-order nursery
    1. customers ordered through post; catalogue or retailing-order form
  6. garden center
    1. planting material; tools; office and marketing unit
    2. horticultural tools
      1. fertilizers
      2. gardening tools
      3. soil mix
      4. chemicals
      5. containers/pots
      6. polybags
  7. holding nursery
    1. function part time for keeping of acclimatizing plants
3. production systems
  1. field production
    1. bare root; soil balled
    2. B&B balled and burlapped
    3. APM
  2. container production/polybags
    1. produce planting materials in container
      1. pot
      2. polybags
      3. trays
4. products
  1. generals
  2. specialty
    1. fruits
    2. ornamental
      1. shade tree
      2. shrubs
      3. perennials
      4. herbs
      5. annuals
      6. palms
      7. indoor plants
  3. propagation & liner materials
    1. grafted plants
    2. rooted cutting
    3. seedlings
    4. root stalk
  4. planting material in B&B form - APM
    1. planted in field or bed
    2. transferred while plant in dormant phase/inactive phase
    3. top pruned 1/3 back
    4. part of the root is been pruned
    5. the soil at the base is wrapped using gunny sack and tied
    6. while selling; transfer plant into container or B&B
    7. use hydraulic digging machine (tree transplanter)
layout and structure
1. includes
  1. office and sales
  2. shade house
  3. glasshouse
  4. parking lots
  5. playground
  6. situated at metropolitan or near department store
  7. propagation area
  8. potting
  9. specialized production area
    1. shade house
    2. rain shelter
  10. exhibition garden/theme gardens
  11. stock plant area
  12. research area
  13. parking area
  14. guard house
2. objectives
  1. utilize the space in a most effective and efficient way
  2. smooth; effective and efficient movement of inputs and outputs
  3. ease in managing production and marketing
  4. attraction to customers
  5. improve hygiene in nursery and propagation area
3. layout
  1. linear
    1. planting materials being propagated at the end of the nursery and bring to the sales area in a linear flow
    2. nursery easy to reach
  2. curvilinear
    1. propagation is situated nearby the sales area
    2. suitable for area that its nursery is difficult to reach
  3. concentric
    1. the working area near to each other
    2. 2 ways flow occurred between the outside and inside
    3. suitable for centralization of working area
basic planning of functional areas
1. working area
2. office
3. store
4. sale and display
5. soil mixing area
building
1. greenhouse
  1. for propagation
  2. for seedling and stickling growth
  3. controlled environment structure (CES)
2. propagation site
  1. easy to clean
  2. misting and irrigation system with suitable light intensity
  3. concrete floor or walkway to ease movement
  4. concrete or wooden propagation bench that are strong and durable
  5. strong and durable building frame
    1. ex metal and fiberglass framework
  6. wall that built from translucent materials that enable good ventilation
hardening and growing area
1. an area where the trees obtained sufficient sunlight at suitable light intensity
2. humidity controlling system not required
3. benches not required
selection of materials
1. the frame of greenhouse/rainshelter
  1. wood
  2. aluminium
  3. iron or galvanized iron framework
  4. iron pipe
2. roof
  1. glass
  2. fibreglass
  3. plastic materials
    1. acrylic
    2. polyethene
    3. polyvinyl chloride
3. wall
  1. netting
    1. to control insect
    2. provide good ventilation

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