Sandersonia flowers have beautiful orange bells. We start picking our first flowers in late September. This continues until December. By mid January we start harvesting our second crop of flowers. This lasts until late March. Flowers are picked when there are at least three open bells. As the flower stems are cut they are placed into buckets of cool water containing a post harvest conditioning solution to improve vase life, and they are placed in our coolstore. The flowers are then graded in our packing shed according stem length with poor stems being rejected. Grades are usually 50cm, 60cm and 70cm stem lengths, with a minimum number of 6 bells per flower. The flowers are bunched and sleeved prior to packing into cartons ready for export.

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Close-up detail of sandersonia flowers growing in our polyhouse.

Bucket of stems ready to grade.

Sandersonia growing in the polyhouse.

View of sandersonia growing in trays irrigated with t-tape.

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