Tissue Culture is a high-tech procedure enabling many plants to be propagated under sterile conditions.
Stage I:
We start with a specimen: Pulmonaria 'David Ward'
The growth tip is "excised" (removed) and then sterilized in a bleach solution.
This explant is then placed in a test tube with agar, nutrients, and a hormone to induce shoots.
Stage II:
Shoots multiply in the shoot-media and are cut again and again at set intervals. The numbers increase geometrically until the desired amount is met.
Plants are grown at stages one and two in a climate controlled grow-room.
Stage III:
When numbers are met the stage two explants are placed in a root inducing media.
When roots are formed they can be put into soil. On transfer to soil, plants are considered Stage IV.
Plants are greenhouse-weaned in even humidity, light, and temperature.
Flats are transferred to our growing house to be hardened-off, and set for shipping. The entire process can take from 3 months to a year.
The creative floodgates have opened at Terra
Nova! From our dazzling range of new Coreopsis
and Echinacea
to new Penstemon and Sedum, we have flowering
plants to fit every need.
On the foliage front, we feature a collection
from the ice-kissed Acanthus
'Whitewater' to new red-stemmed Hosta
and Heuchera
and Heucherella
in some amazing shades.
