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Empire Proteas

Based in Mulwala and grown in Oaklands, NSW, we grow and supply proteas and Australian natives. We can also arrange delivery (please ask at time of order).
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Based in Oaklands, NSW, Empire Proteas grow and supply proteas, leucadendrons and a growing number of Australian natives to the local region. Situated on a 5 acre block, we currently have 1,000 plants of over a dozen varieties to offer our customers. Whether you’re a florist placing a weekly order, a business looking for a regular floral arrangement or that one off customer to mark that special oc

casion, both large and small, we are happy to work with you to provide the best quality stems for your needs. With the vast majority of our flowers picked within 24-48hrs of reaching our clients and coming straight from the farm to the customer, it’s hard to find flowers with more life in them. You can find us at a number of markets in the Border area where you can purchase your stems individually or choose from one of our different sized mixed posies, boxed arrangements and baskets. We also take orders for wreaths, bulk orders and are happy to discuss customised requirements you may have. We are excited to build our business with you and are looking to expand our varieties to cater for all tastes and seasons.

03/12/2024

First one of the year is ready for it new home 😍🎉

03/12/2024

Time to try and turn these bits and pieces into some wreaths for tomorrow

01/12/2024

As our rooms are being filled with trees and decorated we mustn’t forget how lonely and jealous our doors must be feeling during this time.

To try and bring peace and harmony back to the house we may have found a solution. We will have both our coloured (Red and Green or Gold and Silver) and natural wreaths available to order.

Mini wreath - $30
Small wreath - $40 (pictured)
Medium wreath - $55
Large wreath - $70

If you’d like to place an order feel free to send through a message. May we all survive the final countdown and get time to enjoy the festive season

P.S. I don’t know what the iPhone decided to do with those photos as it’s the same wreath and the same door, just taken zoomed in 🤷‍♂️

26/11/2024

🚨Coming soon🚨

It’s time for every experiment to venture out of the garden and make its way to the rest of the family. Prepping the area to start planting out the sunflowers when the seedlings are ready. It’ll be a nice view when they are in full swing

24/11/2024

Surely 2 snake skins within 6ft of each other is enough to hand in my resignation

23/11/2024

A couple of weeks ago when we had some strong winds as I ventured outside I found my little greenhouse cover wrapped around the clothesline, seedlings on the ground and bits and pieces from it scattered around the yard.

Whilst the experiment worked it also reinforced the belief that something more permanent is required. We have a little bit of wasted space down the side of the shed that isn’t being used for anything so thought I’d give some seedlings a go to see if the location would be appropriate and I think it’s a winner.

Seeds trays are a week old today and the potted up paper daisies are about 3 weeks old with a pretty good outcome with nearly 100 plants out of it. Now I just need to design and build a greenhouse

19/11/2024

Now this is more like it when needing to apply bulk amounts of seasol. This is with the reduced pressure of the 13mm hose

10/11/2024

Whilst dad is doing up an arrangement for tomorrow the kids are playing on the inflatable water slide. I think that’s a pretty good Sunday afternoon

08/11/2024

Just like that the first couple have burst into life. Just need to try and find a way to get the lady bugs off them

05/11/2024

A lesson I learnt from our very first plantings is it’s not cruel to prune the trees when they are young. I let the first plantings go and whilst I got most of them under control now it did take some corrective measures to get them back to where I want them. If you zoom in and see hopefully the new stems from this years plantings will form the basis of some beautiful flowers next year.

The Eucalyptus in the photo is proof that the Australian natives don’t mind a hard prune if required.

04/11/2024

1. It turns out there is a proper method of doing this

2. You don’t need a 100 metre hose just need to make it work. Much like life, you don’t need everything in life but rather be able to work with what you have

3. If I’m doing you the courtesy of providing free rent and utilities can you please not scare the life out of me when I nearly stepped on you.

02/11/2024

Just cruising along the trees with the ride on mower and this little guy was chilling on the bark before retreating. Once the initial shock subsided I remembered the old formula

Legs = good
No legs = bad

02/11/2024

2 YouTube tutorials, 1 hour of struggle and we are back in action 😍🥳🎉

01/11/2024

Start your month off in a blaze of colour. We dropped off boxes to Rutherglen IGA and Corowa IGA this morning and the last few weeks they have been selling fast

26/10/2024

With no rain on the horizon we are going to give the plants a good Seasol tomorrow. The pump has decided to be temperamental so have to put the thinking cap on to get around the distributing of 5,000+ litres. Ran a trial on the home garden to see how it went and whilst it’s nothing too scientific it does the job.

This year we had trees die, a high proportion of buds die before flowering as well many Leucadendrons knocking on deaths door before we were able to bring most of them back. I’m putting on my Nostradamus hat on and predicting a hot summer this year so will get on top of our water, fertiliser and we will use a product such as Wiltnot to try and combat it.

22/10/2024

We have the trifecta of Pin Cushions 😍 just waiting to see if the few remaining yellow ones will flower to bring home the quaddie 🤞

We tipped out an inch of rain and the new plants are looking really healthy. The Possum Magics in particular are looking great so we have our fingers crossed we can start getting good flowers of them next year.

20/10/2024

Sunday Funday

The sunflowers are growing nicely, nearly 1 Orson tall now!!! Still must have a lot of growth in them as they don’t show signs of opening up soon. It’ll be a great sight out at the flowers we get into the mass planting of them

Whilst the first variety of Paper Daisy’s are in full swing the second variety, which I prematurely gave up on, are coming into flower now and producing amazing results. I have another tray of seedlings, which should be bursting out anytime now, but will go pretty hard on these plantings.

The sun flower seedlings are starting to come through a week after setting them up. They may find themselves out at the flowers next week if all goes to plan which means it’s time to plant more seeds.

I brought 3 buckets of cuttings that I saved from the bonfire to be used for a trial of propagation and managed to get 40 from them in about a bucket and a half. This is the first attempt at this and with no experience or knowledge on the subject my expectations aren’t too high. I’ve read people who suggest hothouses and others who suggest shade so in the spirit of Old El Paso why not try both.

There is something therapeutic about working in the garden and watching it grow. It brings yourself back in with nature so the worst case scenario is it doesn’t work so I get the chance to try again.

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Mulwala, NSW
2647

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First one of the year is ready for it new home 😍🎉

Now this is more like it when needing to apply bulk amounts of seasol. This is with the reduced pressure of the 13mm hose

In my mind with the kids driving the mower it would speed things up. At the very least it’ll create a core memory. One of my earliest memories was mulching the trees with dad and Uncle Percy when I was 10 or 11. One of the main reasons we went down this path was the opportunity it raised for family time and hopefully there’s many more memories yet to be made