Introduction of Silvanus Tree Nursery

Silvanus Tree Nursery with its 23-year-old past is currently one of the most significant tree nurseries in Hungary.
The centre of our tree nursery operates in Northwesten Hungary, near Lake Fertő and the town of Sopron next to the Austrian border, with a production area of 100 hectares.

Mr. Jenő Németh, the owner of the company started the tree nursery production in 1980, as a private undertaker. He reproducted grew sold evergreens and deciduous ornamental plants in the garden of their own house.
Soon it was proved that top-quality ornamental plants are always marketable among the customers, so due to the business successes it bekame possible to expand the undertaking, which grown out of the garden of the house by this time and was gradually increased by the produktion of newplant species.
The present biggest production plant of the tree nursery can be found in Kistölgyfapuszta, near to Kapuvar, located in the Fertő-Hanság National Park.

Silvanus Tree Nursery, by the vocational guidance of Mr. Jenő Németh, developed into one ot the most significant tree nurseries in Hungary, as we always kept in view providing the best possible quality for our costumers, following the claims of the buyer's market.
Besides our tree nursery gained a significant European reputation as well, which is shown by the considereble from the export-import business turnover concerning all regions of Europe. The export turnover reaches as high as 35 % of the total turnover. Our most important Hungarian trading partners includes local government, landscape companies and horticultural retail shops.
In order to arrange the wholesale trade the tree nursery established an association for sale named HungaroPlant in the spring in 1998.
We regularly participate in Hungarian as well as high-standard European horticultural shows, where working in Silvanus Tree Nursery has been rewarded several times. For example we won international medal for our outstanding business activity in Madrid, in 1990.

In 1992, on Plantarium '92 International Exhibition in Holland we won Big Silver Medal for Taxus baccata (yew tree) Conica" cultivar.
In 1993, on IGA Exhibition in Stuttgart we were awarded 4 extra prizes.
In addition, an intensive breeding project is in progress in Silvanus Tree Nursery, which aimes selection of clones of high biological value, which having good tolerance and intensive ornamental value, could surpass the other species. Corylus colurna 'Silvanus Purple' (Turkish hazel) is a new cultivar, which does not lose its intensive red leaf-colour during summer.
There is a forestry and tree nursery stock-plantation in Silvanus Tree Nursery, which consists of oak-clones and clone mixtures with high genetic value. Employees of our tree nursery worked out a technology for propagation and production, which promotes production of top-quality climbers.
We took part in the propagation and cultivation of ship-mast black locust and other forestry and tree nursery plants with mycorrhisotic connection. Currently we are also taking part in a research aiming working out of an environmentallz-friendly technology, which would protects water quality of Lake Balaton (the biggest fresh water lake of Central Europe).
Two richly illustrated, popular book written on a high professional standard were also published under the editorship of Silvanus Tree Nursery. The one entitled "Ornamental trees and gardens in pictures" demonstrates tree nursery ornamental plants, helping customers the to make their choice of the right plants this way. The one entitled "Harmonic garden" helps customers under proper life conditions place the chosen plants.
In addition to tree nursery production, Silvanus Tree Nursery pays a big attention to that the sale of the plants should be performed on a high standard environment. In Budapest, the capital of Hungary, garden-lovers can buy in four, uniformly designed Silvanus horticultural shops, but, retail-dealers also sell Silvanus plants with pleasure in many tree nursery shops all over the country, of course. 25 % of the produced plants are sold in our own tree nursery shops.
In addition to the tree nursery production and sale we also provide garden design and landscape-gardening service, which is available in Silvanus Landscape-gardening Workshop.
On Silvanus production plant - in accordance with the market conditions - production of re-planted, extra-sized evergreens, pines and ornamental shrubs was also started. There is a lack of these solitary, re-planted plants on the EU-markets as well, so the demand will prospectively be great. Production of plants planted in iron baskets, in crates made of popular lathes or in wicker baskets in the last period of cultivation helps promote better development . The plant must be planted with the cover holding its root system, which rapidly decomposes in the soil. Therefore taking root of plants planted without disturbing their root system will be prospectively 100 %.
At the cultivation of solitary plants those, which well adapt themselves to the European climate are specially stressed. This is case with Picea pungens, Picea pungens Glauca, Picea omorika, Thuja occidentalis Smaragd, Forsythia x intermedia, Philadelphus sp., Deutzia scabra, Spiraea sp. species and cultivars.
Production of solitary shrubs is also important, because consumer demand has remarkably changed. In addition to the evergreens, shrubs decorating with foliage and with inflorescence have become also very imoprtant. So it is easier to follow the changes of seasons in the ornamental gardens and they adapt themselves more harmoniously to the natural environment than many exota evergreens. Our new activity is production of extra-sized line-trees of species and cultivars, which well tolerate contaminated soil and air of large European cities, c.g. Acer, Fraxinus and Celtis species and cultivars. Environmentalists all over the world also push spread of foliaged plants.
The aim of Silvanus Tree Nursery is to draw more and more species and cultivars into the cultivation of solitary plants and to use a production technology providing plantation of these big plants in any period of the year. So the user of the plant can possess a functioning garden with great ornamental value in a short time.