Sales of flower, citric fruit seedlings increase

ISLAMABAD:

The residents of the capital are thronging nurseries to buy plants, the seedling of flowers and citric fruits, and grass to enhance the beauty of their flowers beds, lawns, gardens, terraces and rooftops in the upcoming spring season.

Spring season starts from February in Pakistan and is considered as one of the most ideal weather for growing fruits like peach, apricot, apple, pomegranate and flowers of rose, jasmine, petunia, peony and osteospermum, said a nurseryman at the largest plant market of Islamabad located in H-9 sector.

He said the sale and purchase of plants grew manifold in the spring season that eventually boosted their businesses. "Demand of indoor and outdoor plants, flowers, bulbs has tremendously increased , even amongst  young people,” he noted.

Another shopkeeper said fruit plants of peach and apricot were in high demand this year and new research-based citric fruit seedling became famous among the citizens as it was easy to grow at homes.

Plant nurseries breed seedling in an open field, on containers, in tunnels or greenhouses.

In 1815, first seed house or plant nursery was established by Vilmorin family in France which is now run as a public trade company. The said company is one of the largest plant breeding and seed-producing source in the European Union.

 

Published in The Express Tribune, February 6^th, 2022.