10840 Tree nursery

My wife is asking where we can find a tree nursery not too far from the Casentino valley. We have been round various garden centres but we will need to buy rather more than they have in stock, so it would seem to be better to go direct to the grower ourselves.
PS. Does anyone knowing the proper term in Italian for a tree nursery?

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Gardening & Agriculture

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 11/01/2008 - 21:22

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PS. Does anyone knowing the proper term in Italian for a tree nursery?[/quote]

This thread had some useful information: [url]http://www.italymag.co.uk/forums/gardening-agriculture/9286-tree-s.html[/url]

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 11/02/2008 - 07:15

Thanks. The thread link was very useful.
We are looking at more gentle slopes, and are determined that the land will be productive - !% tax instead of 18%. We were going to plant trees anyway, but it took us both less than a fraction of a second to agree that we would make sure we knew how to prove that it will be productive land, when we heard the difference in the tax applied by the Notaio when we purchase.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 11/02/2008 - 13:45

I assume that you are in Tuscany? Then go to Pistoia for trees...millions of trees on sale there. The many Vivai selling trees at both Camucia nr Cortona and Chiusi (the famous Margheriti) will be much more expensive, even if you are buying lots and lots of trees. That thread will suggest the local Comunita Montana, excellent but they may not have what you want or enough of them.
Note we haven't been able to find those tubes that protect young tree trunks in Italy, so you may have to get those in the UK. Here deer will clear a field of young trees sharpish so I have been spraying with [url=http://www.grazers.co.uk]Grazers - effective solution to rabbit damage & crop damage by grazing rabbits, deer, pigeons, geese[/url] which works and can be sent to Italy.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 11/02/2008 - 14:26

Thanks Noble.
As far as grazers are concerned, we are expecting to need to fence the lot (except for one side which a neighbour has already fenced), and then pay the tax and put up "fondo chiuso, divieto di caccia" notices. We are not yet living on site, but when there we have already met a hunter, with rifle and dog, right in front of the house, and we have found considerable evidence of their activity on the land, which is terribly neglected at present.
The only grazer that we have been warned against, which a six foot rabbit proof fence will not stop, is mice.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 11/02/2008 - 14:33

Ah you lucky so and so, you are going to have a high, meshed wire, fence. Our neighbours fenced with wooden posts, barbed wire and electric wire. (English stiles to let Hunters in and out!!!). Everything still gets in and they lost a lot of fruit trees. We cannot afford the 11,000 euros it will cost us to fence so I spray and pray!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 11:09

Thanks Noble, we are not so much lucky, as simply could not cope with hunters suddenly appearing out of the bushes in our own back yard, as happened just two weeks ago when we were there. I have measured the boundary on the catasto plans and have estimated that it is going to cost an awful lot, but this is one case where we feel we simply have to 'bite the bullet' and pay up. We will be paring our costs practically everywhere else, but this expense will also help to protect those valuable trees this thread first began with. But we will keep a note about 'grazers' just in case we ever need to use it.