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Backyard nursery

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Backyard nursery

Many people help community revegetation projects by growing native plants in their own gardens. These kawakawa (Macropiper excelsum) and tōtara (Podocarpus totara) seedlings have been raised from seed and will be planted out in a forest restoration project in Northland.

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Maggy Wassilieff, Horticultural use of native plants – Revegetation and crop plants, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/10471/backyard-nursery (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Maggy Wassilieff, published 1 March 2009.