NZ: Local nurseries upset, worried about exclusion of million dollar deal
Most of the seeds will be sourced from Kapiti and local nurserymen have been told Kauri Park Nurseries in Palmerston North will be cultivating most of the plants.
Waikanae nurseryman Gus Evans said he is disappointed local growers had been left out. "We realise we are not big enough for the world, but it would have been good to have been included in a small way in some of the growing of the plants," Mr Evans said.
Bringing plants from out of the district could expose Kapiti to pest lizard the Australian rainbow skink which till now has not been found south of Foxton, he said. "It would be disastrous to the locals," he said.
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