New Zealand grower builds own greenhouses to grow indoor crops
NZ Flowers Week were greeted by Denis Grogan and soon after his lovely wife Suntara appeared from a processing shed where she had been busy planting seeds into trays, ready to grow into one of the many product lines the Grogan’s produce.
A tour of their property showed large greenhouses that Denis built himself to house his ‘indoor crop’ lines such as: Stock, Asters and Celosia. At this time the main greenhouse was filled with rows of colourful single and double-flowered Stock.
The interviewers then wandered to where they grow their sunflowers - a large outdoor plot with neat rows of plants with flowers buds starting to emerge. Denis has answered a few Grower Profile questions. Have a read through to better understand what it’s like to produce flowers in New Zealand.