Plant Hawke's Bay Ltd

09/06/2026

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Read our story in the latest issue of Business Rural Magazine: see the link in the article below

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Plant Hawke's Bay Ltd is helping restore the region’s natural landscapes while protecting local biodiversity through its eco-sourced native plant programme. Their dedication to conservation, erosion control and habitat restoration has earned them recognition as a finalist in the Ballance Farm Environment Awards for the East Coast region.

Despite recovering from Cyclone Gabrielle’s devastating impacts, the team remains committed to rebuilding Hawke’s Bay’s native plant population one plant at a time. Congratulations on this well-deserved achievement and ongoing contribution to the region’s environmental future.

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08/06/2026

Congratulations to Honey Lee Blakeney, the project manager for the Waingongoro Awa Charitable Trust. She whistled up funding for a major planting project at Cabbage Tree Flat, on land owned by the Brightwell whanau. Ezra Brightwell welcomed planters on Saturday. We are proud to be the plant suppliers to this project, and pleased Honey Lee is one of the winners of our planting spade promotion for May. As well as local residents and Trust supporters, Hawke's Bay Regional Council staff Annabel Beattie and Natalie de Burgh helped out on the day too.

22/05/2026

Your lawn is worth more dead than alive and Colorado just made it official—the state's Turf Buyback Program is shattering enrollment records by paying homeowners $3 per square foot to rip out thirsty grass and install native landscapes, and in a state where the Colorado River keeps shrinking and summer drought maps look like a wound that won't close, the math finally stopped working for the American lawn. The deal is simple: sign up, commit to removing your water-hungry turf, and the state cuts a check while you plant drought-resistant grasses, wildflowers, and shrubs that actually evolved for high-altitude dry air, so the resulting yard sips water, needs no chemicals, and doesn't turn into crispy brown thatch every August when restrictions hit. For decades the green lawn has been a bizarre status symbol—a non-native carpet kept alive by brute force, garden hoses, and weekend slavery—but Colorado looked at its water future and essentially said we'll pay you to stop, and homeowners are flooding the program because one house goes native, the pollinators show up, the neighbors see the water bill drop, and the psychology of an entire street shifts as the front yard becomes microhabitat instead of a miniature golf course. Every square foot converted is water that stays in the system, every deep native root holds soil, slows runoff, and feeds bees through July without a sprinkler touching it, and in a region where every gallon of municipal water has a real cost, paying people to stop wasting it on Kentucky bluegrass is almost embarrassingly logical. Other states are watching because the buyback model turns environmental necessity into economic incentive—no sacrifice, just a check and a yard that actually belongs where it grows—so save the water, build a habitat, rewild the suburbs: it's not a slogan, it's policy, and it's spreading one ripped-up lawn at a time.

20/05/2026

Great to be at the NZ Plant Producers Inc conference at Karaka, just opened by the chair Nick Hoskins

02/05/2026

We're so proud of our Sales Manager Bianca Kitchin!! Congratulations!

Congratulations to the NZ Young Plant Producer of the Year 2026 finalists!

From a highly competitive field of entrants nationwide, four outstanding young professionals have been selected:

Michael Blair – Tharfield Nursery, Bay of Plenty
Clayton Hart – Rainbow Park Nurseries, Auckland
Bianca Kitchin – Plant Hawke's Bay
Matt Loan – Southern Woods Nursery, Christchurch

This year also marks a special milestone — 30 years of Young Plant Producer. It's hugely encouraging to see such talent and dedication in our industry's next generation of leaders.

The competition takes place 20–21 May at Karaka as part of the NZ Plant Producers Conference & Awards Dinner. Register at nzppiconference.co.nz

14/04/2026

What a fantastic day out at Kaweka Lakes yesterday learning from wetland plant expert Paul Champion! Plants we saw included the flowering Lobelia carens and the tiny red tussock Carex cirrhosa which is nationally endangered. Thanks to Michael McCandless and the DOC team and to Annabel Beattie of HBRC for the ride.

24/03/2026

Food for thought:

They are stitching the countryside back together

19/03/2026

https://nzfetrust.org.nz/stories/rob-coral-buddo-marie-taylor/

We're privileged to have won three awards at last night's East Coast Ballance Farm Environment Awards. Congratulations to the other winners including the supreme winner, our clients Matangi Station.

East Coast / Nursery Rob & Coral Buddo, Marie TaylorPlant Hawke’s Bay 4 Feb 2026 ► Hill Labs Agri-Science Award Bayleys People in Primary Sector Award FMG Risk Management Award The team behind this Hawke’s Bay nursery is actively striving to re-cloak the region’s farms and wider landscapes i...

05/02/2026

We are delighted to be a finalist in this year's East Coast Ballance Farm Environment Awards!

As we count down to our 2026 Ballance Farm Environment Awards event, we're pleased to announce our finalists:

WAYNE & NICKY BREEZE
Hauiti Farm, Poukawa

JAMIE & NICKY GADDUM
Matangi Station, Tukituki

ROB & CORAL BUDDO, MARIE TAYLOR
Plant Hawke’s Bay, Waiohiki

TIM & LUCY MOUAT
Springvale Station, Tikokino

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A huge thank you to all those who entered, and congratulations to our finalists!

Keen to read their stories:
👉 https://nzfetrust.org.nz/regions/east-coast/

Keen to join us in celebrating our finalists:
👉 https://bit.ly/East-Coast_BFEA_event

08/01/2026

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/583567/hawke-s-bay-conservationists-work-to-save-critically-endangered-forget-me-not

A critically endangered forget-me-not is being saved from the brink of extinction.