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Australian grower supplies local flowers all year

Joe Polito is one of only a handful of flower growers who never supplement their flower supply with imports, even during peak periods like Mother’s Day or Valentine’s Day.

The wide mix of flowers include dahlias, roses, stock, tuber rose, strelitzia (bird of paradise), freesia, ornamental kale, poppies, renucculus and irish bells among others.

Joe has his own family heirloom stock of dahlia tubers, rhizomes and bulbs which are lifted annually by hand, washed, dried and stored through winter at the appropriate temperature for each flower.

Joe will soon fulfil his dream of growing on a single property he has just bought on the Hawkesbury Napean River with a new state-of-art high tech glasshouse. Other structures will also be built on site to suite specific flower crops.

He will also relocate and raise the height of greenhouse frames from existing sites and switch from 100% town water to treated dam and river water.

AIS Greenworks will supply the Aqua Hort water treatment system and Grodan slow rockwool media filter which has 10,000 x the surface area of sand in the same volume.

Over the coming winter the existing rose greenhouse will be refitted to a Grodan rockwool system with steel gutter trays similar to tomatoes.

Read more at Protected Cropping Australia
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