Leading Australian grower and supplier of Carnivorous Plants and Water Plants.
TRIFFID PARK'S ANNUAL CARNIVOROUS PLANT NURSERY OPEN DAY IS ON SUNDAY24TH NOVEMBER 2024 - 9am - 4pm. For more details please visit our FIELD DAYS page.
9-11-2024 - MAIL ORDERS - Due to our upcoming Open Day on the 24th November any mail orders that are
placed from today, 9th November, WILL NOT be posted until after the 24th Nov as we need to prepare the nursery.
I cannot give you a postage date after that, as we have to work through both nursery orders and mail orders after
our Open Day. Please be aware of this when ordering. We thank you for your understanding.
AUSTRALIA POST CHRISTMAS LODGEMENT. The last day for Aus Post is Friday 20 December (13 Dec for WA) - however please make sure that your orders are placed by 12 December to allow us enough time with the busy period to process your order. Orders placed after 11 Dec may not arrive prior to Christmas.
Please read our MAIL ORDERING INFORMATION page before ordering for Terms and Conditions.
Triffid Park is NOT open to the public for walk in sales or tours, except for our Annual Open Day.
TRIFFID PARK MOVES TO SOMERVILLE, VICTORIA WITH NEW OWNERS.
THIS IS A DIARY OF OUR NURSERY'S BUILDING PROGRESS.
On the 1st July 2007, Donna and Jason Smith became the new owners of Triffid Park (Aust) Pty Ltd.
Jason and Donna purchased a 15 acre property in Somerville, Victoria, a south-eastern suburb of Melbourne on the Mornington Peninsula to build the new modern Triffid Park. The property has a nice house on it, so they can live on site to attend to the daily running of the business. The Freeway from Melbourne brings you straight to our gateway by car. Depending on the traffic it is about a 45 minute to 1 hour car drive from Melbourne, and 1 - 1 1/2 hours from Melbourne airport. The Somerville train station is only 4 kilometres away, and it takes 1 hour and 15 minutes by train from Melbourne.
Late 2007
The new Triffid Park carnivorous plant growing nursery will be one large modern, environmentally friendly, state of the art building - 32 metres x 40 metres in size. It will be rain gutter connected, with the entire room span designed to catch all rain water that falls on it into 2 x 50,000 litre water tanks, which can then be used to water the plants, thus allowing us to be water conscious and environmentally friendly.
The roof vents will open to allow fresh air in to cool the houses and let hot air escape on warmer days, and close when the temperature drops to retain heat. The roof vents will have shade cloth covers in them to stop larger insects, birds and bats from entering the growing houses for quarantine purposes. Thermal screens will close at night to retain heat from escaping through the roof. Summer screens will slide across inside the house when the sun is too bright on the plants. Foggers will operate from the water tanks to cool the houses if the temperature in them gets too hot, and help to create humidity. Circulation fans will operate on a timer to circulate air within the houses. Gas heaters will turn on when the temperature inside 3 of the houses drops below the set temperature.
We will also have our potting and packing shed under this one roofline, so that no plants have to leave their growing environment to be potted or packed. A conservatory type room will also be under the roof line of the growing house so that garden clubs, school groups and other groups have an area for talks and lectures before touring the growing rooms. Each different growing area i.e. Sarracenias, Dionaeas, Nepenthes, Pinguiculas and the propagating house will all be individually temperature controlled to re-create their required environments. The large Sarracenia house will be fitted with rolling benches to utilize more floor space with plants.
6th MARCH 2008
FINALLY - our plans have been passed by council - 8 months.
We are yet to receive the stamped permit, but the plans have been passed, and we can move forward from here with progress. We are hoping to receive the stamped planning permit next week, then all we need is the building permit, which we are told will only take a couple of days to put together.
FRIDAY 28TH MARCH
HOORAY! - HOORAY! - HOORAY!
We picked up the stamped Planning Permit from the council office today. Now the information has been sent off for the Building permit.
26th APRIL - 4TH MAY 2008
A whole day was spent with the electrician digging ditches and laying cables for the electrical wires underground. These all run back to a central box which will house the computer system.
Then another whole day was spent with the plumber digging more ditches and laying more pipe for the underground water. This will service the watering of the whole nursery via tank water collected from the roof guttering. Pipes had to be laid for sinks, toilet, fertiliser system and capillary watering system.
THURSDAY 8TH MAY
Crushed rock was dropped, spread and rolled 75mm thick over the entire growing house for our floor.
MONDAY 12TH MAY
Today the truck arrived with the frame work for our new carnivorous plant growing house. By the end of the day they had laid out all the posts on the ground in the positions where they are to be mounted.
By the 21st MAY, the wall frames are up.