Konaseema · Godavari delta · 25+ years

Every plant we sell started on this ground.

Seed beds, a grafting bench, shade houses and a quarter century of delta silt. We are a growing nursery, not a yard that buys stock in and puts a price on it.

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A sapling tied to its stake. Ours leave the nursery the same way.

25+ years
raising plants in the delta
50 lines
listed, more in the ground
6 worked by hand
grafted, budded or layered
43 lines
held in project quantities

How a plant gets to you

From a seed bed to the back of a lorry

Depending on the species this takes anything from six weeks to six years. None of it can be hurried, which is the whole reason a nursery exists.

  1. 01

    The mother block

    A fenced-off set of trees we never sell. Every graft, cutting and layer starts as a piece of one of them, so we know what the plant will turn into.

  2. 02

    Seed beds

    Seed collected in season, sown into sand and coir, shaded and watered twice a day. Pricked out into trays once the first true leaves are up.

  3. 03

    The bench

    Winter work. Veneer grafts for mango and sapota, T-budding for citrus, air-layers ringed on the standing branch. Wrapped, dated and left to knit.

  4. 04

    Potting on

    Into black poly bags with a mix of delta silt, sand and well-rotted cow dung. Bag size steps up as the root ball fills, not on a calendar.

  5. 05

    Shade house

    Fifty per cent net while the roots take hold. Foliage lines stay here; everything else is only passing through.

  6. 06

    Hardening off

    Stepped out into full sun for weeks before dispatch, and watered less. A plant that has never felt sun will drop everything the day it is planted.

  7. 07

    Lifted and wrapped

    Earth balls cut, wrapped and tied. Crowns tipped back where needed and loaded so nothing is crushed on the road.

  8. Ask what stage yours is at

    We can tell you how old a batch is, what it was grafted onto and when it will be the size you want.

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At the bench

Seven ways to start a plant

Which one we use decides how long you wait, what it costs, and whether it comes true to the parent. It is on every plant tag in the catalogue.

Seed

16

Collected from known trees, sown in sand beds, pricked out once the first true leaves are up.

Graft

3

Scion wood off a tagged mother tree joined to seedling rootstock at the bench, wrapped, and left to knit.

Budding

1

A single bud slipped under the rootstock bark. Used on citrus, where a full graft is wasteful.

Air-layer

2

Bark ringed on a standing branch, packed with moss, rooted in place, then cut away. Fruits far sooner than seed.

Cutting

18

Semi-hardwood struck under mist with bottom heat from the sun. Cheapest route, and clones the parent exactly.

Division

7

Clumps and suckers split by hand, each piece with its own roots, rested in shade before it is sold.

Runner

3

Lawn grasses spread on their own. We lift turf or rooted runners straight off the field.

Not sure which you want?

For fruit, almost always a graft or a layer — a seedling mango may take eight years and fruit like nothing you recognise.

In the ground

What we grow

Planting calendar

When to plant in the delta

Half the plants that die here were simply put in at the wrong time of year.

June – September

Monsoon — plant out

The one window where trees and palms establish without daily watering. Book avenue stock by April; the good sizes go first.

October – November

Turf and ground cover

Soil still warm, rain finished. Lawns laid now knit before the cool nights.

December – February

Grafting season

Mango and sapota worked at the bench. Also the right time to lift earth-ball stock, while growth is slow.

March – May

Hold, do not plant

Too hot to plant out anything with a cut root. We strike cuttings under mist and grow on. Buy in bags, plant in June.

Tell us the site, not just the species

Soil, sun, salt, and how much water it will honestly get. We would rather talk you out of a plant now than replace it next year.

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