Picking at Gough Hill Farm

This photo is of the busy work room at Gough Hill Farm - a Gerbera farm in Brisbane Australia. It was taken during one of our very busy periods - when the Spring Flush occurred and we were picking record numbers (for us) of flowers.

It was all hands on deck as we prepared the thousands of flowers for the florists in the area.

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A bucket of gerberas

These are just picked gerberas. We pick them - pluck them really as no cutting implement is used to pick them. We do then cut about 1/2 an inch from the bottom of each stem, and put them in buckets of fresh water. They are carried into the work room and then each flower is checked, and placed in a plastic "cup", then we make up "bunches" of five flowers of the same colour, place two rubber bands on the stems to hold them firmly, and put in a bucket with special product to preserve the flowers. When counted they are placed in the cold room, ready for delivery to the florists on delivery day.