| Production Capacity | |
Forrest Nursery operates five separate nurseries: Territory Tree Nursery, Darwin; Pincher’s Brook, Donnybrook; Hillsborough, Donnybrook; Forrest Nursery Queensland, Bundaberg and Boyanup Botanical, Boyanup. The two Donnybrook nurseries and the Boyanup nursery have a current combined seedling production capacity of in excess of 30 million seedlings, the Queensland nursery has a capacity of 5 and the Darwin nursery has a further 9 million seedling capacity.
The infrastructure at the nurseries have been designed with an in-built capacity for rapid expansion of seedling production. With three months lead time, the Donnybrook and Boyanup nurseries seedling production capacity can be expanded to exceed 50 million seedlings. As a result, Forrest Nursery has the capacity to supply seedling demand for a rapidly growing industry. In recent times, Forrest Nursery has produced: 20 million seedlings in 2001; 7 million seedlings in 2002; 7 million seedlings in 2003; 15 million seedlings in 2004 and 30 million seedlings in 2005. |