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Kōrero: Market gardens and production nurseries

Flowers for export

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Flowers for export

Louise Sheehan, chair of the New Zealand Flower Exporters Association in 2006, shows off some cut flowers prepared for export. Cut-flower exports developed during the 1960s and 1970s, when regular flights began to key markets in Europe, Japan and the United States.

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New Zealand Herald

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by Martin Sykes

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Maggy Wassilieff, Market gardens and production nurseries – Industry structure, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/20029/flowers-for-export (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Maggy Wassilieff, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.