Commercial Grower at Drury -part 1

i went to a commercial grower at Drury, about 30mins from South Auckland on the last week of May. it was part of an outing organised by the orchid society.
I was expecting muddy, and drippy places.. but i came to something totally opposite.
the area is sterile. it's an eye-opener.

*seedlings are grown on the floor of the enormous glass houses. there's at least 1-2 acres of glasshouse. some workers were working on the seedling. there were anthuriums, bromeliads, ferns and orchids grown inside the glasshouse. was told there were also vegetable seedlings too.. the roof captures the heat and sunlight. the whole facility is based on dutch technology. the dutch actually came and build the facility.

*that's one of the partner of the nursery. he was giving an extensive talk about growing phalaenopsis in the commercial sense. there were rows and rows of phallies in the glasshouse and he supplies them to the florist or the plant shop. he has worker whose job is staking the phalies stocks. guess what's cooking in the drums?? hehe fertiliser. there were a row of about 5 big drums, and each contains specific fertiliser for different plant group.

*baby phallies, and the various type of bromeliads.