分会与它的行业身份
石勒苏益格-荷尔斯泰因州苗圃联合会（Landesverband Schleswig‑Holstein）是德国树木苗圃联合会（Bund deutscher Baumschulen, BdB）的州级分会。1907 年，荷尔斯泰因地区的苗圃业主自发联合起来，同一年联邦层面的树木苗圃联合会也宣告成立；1933 年联合会被解散，1949 年在联邦层面重新组建。分会同时承担雇主、经济和职业三种团体的角色，目前代表州内约 250 家会员苗圃，办事处设在埃勒霍普。
从 1795 年的第一座苗圃说起
1795 年，汉堡商人 Caspar Voght 在平讷贝格附近的小弗洛特贝克办起了当地第一座苗圃，请苏格兰苗圃专家 James Booth 主持经营、培养学徒，其中一部分苗圃如今成了汉堡阿尔托纳的耶尼施公园。学徒中不少人在周边自立门户，平讷贝格苗圃之乡就此起步。哈尔斯滕贝克 1926 年的邮戳上写着“世界最大的林业植物繁育地”，林业学者施瓦帕赫考察后称这里是“森林的摇篮”。
平讷贝格苗圃之乡的规模
全州苗圃种植面积约 3,500 公顷，接近德国全国苗圃面积的五分之一，产能集中在平讷贝格一带，约 300 家苗圃连片经营，是世界上面积最大的连片苗圃区之一。分工很专：行道树、地被植物、杜鹃与沼泽地植物、攀援植物、造型苗木、针叶与落叶木本各有所长。德国露地栽培的月季每两株就有一株出自这里，砧木和嫁接苗的种植面积占全国一半；林业苗木繁育面积占全国三成以上。行业在收缩，单户规模却在变大，平均种植面积从 2000 年的约 7.5 公顷增加到现在的约 14.5 公顷，容器栽培的比例也在上升。
植物检索与质量标准
分会网站上的植物检索按苗圃和品种列出州内各家的经营范围，连同所在城镇和主营苗木一起显示，想找某一类植物可以直接照着找苗圃。交货质量按 FLL 的《TL-Baumschulpflanzen》技术供货条件执行，新品种还要送交联邦苗木评审；月季新品种的 ADR 标识来自分布在德国各地的独立评审园连续三年的观察，观察期间完全不用植物保护剂，用这个办法筛出抗病性好的品种。
分会做的事
分会向会员传达行业信息，就法规变动请外部专家办讲座，在政治和行政面前代表州内苗圃经济的利益，提供法律税务和企业经营方面的咨询，并参与框架协议与薪酬协议的谈判，这些工作由会员同事在各委员会无偿承担。环保上，苗圃用三叶草、芥菜、万寿菊和冬黑麦作绿肥，施肥只看植物的实际需要。分会另设职业形象与培训板块，把苗圃学徒的职业介绍给愿意到户外工作的年轻人。
What the State Association Is
The Landesverband Schleswig-Holstein is the regional branch of the German tree nursery association (Bund deutscher Baumschulen, BdB). Its members first joined forces in 1907 as the voluntary association of Holstein nursery owners; in the same year a national body was founded as well. The branch was dissolved in 1933 and re-formed at federal level in 1949. Today it speaks for around 250 member nurseries, acting as their employer, economic and professional body, with its office in Ellerhoop.
Nursery Traditions Since 1795
In 1795 the Hamburg merchant Baron Caspar Voght opened the first nursery of the area at Klein Flottbek near Pinneberg and brought in the Scottish nurseryman James Booth to run it and train apprentices. Part of that ground is now the Jenischpark in Hamburg-Altona. Several of those apprentices later set up nurseries of their own, and that is how the Pinneberg nursery region began. A 1926 postmark from Halstenbek read “largest forest plant propagation area in the world”, and after a visit forestry scientist Schwappach called the place “the cradle of the forest”.
Scale of the Pinneberg Nursery Region
Around 3,500 hectares of nursery land in the state, close to a fifth of the German total, sit mostly in the Pinneberg area, where some 300 nurseries operate side by side in one of the largest connected nursery regions in the world. The specialisation is pronounced: avenue and street trees, ground cover, rhododendrons and other bog plants, climbers, topiary, conifers and deciduous woody plants each have their specialists. Every second field-grown rose in Germany comes from this area, which also holds half of the country’s rose rootstock and grafting acreage; forestry seedlings account for more than 30 percent of the German production area. Consolidation continues, yet individual farms grow larger: average acreage rose from about 7.5 hectares in 2000 to roughly 14.5 hectares now, and container growing takes a rising share.
Plant Search and Quality Standards
The plant search on the association website lists member nurseries and their ranges of woody plants, together with the town they are in and what they mainly grow, so a specific group of plants can be traced back to a nursery. Delivery quality follows the FLL technical supply conditions for nursery plants, and new varieties also go through the federal woody plant assessment. The ADR mark on a rose tells that the variety spent three years in twelve independent trial gardens without any plant protection product, which is how resistance to leaf diseases is picked out.
What the Association Does
The branch passes information on to member nurseries, runs talks with outside experts on regulatory changes, represents the interests of the state’s nursery economy in politics and administration, advises members on legal, tax and business questions, and negotiates framework and pay agreements. Colleagues from member farms do this work unpaid in the various committees. On the environmental side nurseries grow clover, mustard, tagetes and winter rye as green manure and fertilise only as much as the plants actually need. A separate section on the profession and on training introduces the nursery gardener’s trade to young people who prefer working outdoors.
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