Good year of Laurel germination in the project’s greenhouse

After reaching the 35 000 endemic and native plantas in the greenhouse, an important moment, here comes more good news.

Since we built the Sustainable Laurel Life Project greenhouse that we’ve been dwelling with the difficulty on the germination of some plants. The most difficult results have been the Laurel (until now, we only had two germinations of this specie).

Therefore, this year we have good news: Laurel beds planted are giving excellent results, estimating 5 000 Laurel germinations that will be used on the recovery actions of the Laurel Forest in Serra da Tronqueira.

We hope that the good news continues! See you soon.

The Project’s greenhouse reaches 36 000 plants

For the first time since the construction of the Sustainable Laurel Life Project’s greenhouse, we exceeded the barrier of the 35 000 native plants production.

The production of native plants in the greenhouse, in the previous years, reached 27 000 plants. With this milestone, we increased the number of plants available to plant in the project’s intervention areas.


As usual, the Azorian Heather is the plant with the highest success rate, about 22 000 plants, the Heather follows with 3 710 plants. In adittion, there was an increased success in the germination of other plants, such as the Laurel, the Buckthorn, the Picconia and the Azorean Blueberry, among others.

Unfortunately, we also verified some decrease in the germination of some plants, such as the Faya Tree that has very low germination records.


After two years, since it started at 100%, the Sustainable Laurel Life Project’s greenhouse has been filled with plants that will be replanted in the Natural Forest areas were the project’s intervention takes place.