Nursery and Turf Products

Standard BNQ 0605-300
Nursery and Turf Products

BNQ standards on ornamental horticulture (BNQ 0605-) are excellent guides for growers and service providers in landscaping and the ornamental industry concerned with offering their customers guarantees of quality and reliability.

These standards contribute to ensuring that the production, use and maintenance of plants and landscaping work with inert materials are carried out with environmental preservation in mind and consideration of currently existing techniques.

Standard BNQ 0605-300 applies to nursery and turf products. In addition to specifying requirements ensuring a minimum level of quality for the most common products, the standard establishes key components to be considered for orders and proposes recommendations to facilitate trade. The standard is divided into 12 sections:

• definitions;
• nursery plants – Specifications;
• young nursery plants – Specifications;
• deciduous trees – Specifications;
• conifers – Specifications;
• fruit trees – Specifications;
• small fruit plants – Specifications;
• deciduous and broadleaf evergreen shrubs – Specifications;
• grafted roses – Specifications;
• perennials – Specifications;
• native plants – Specifications;
• sod – Specifications.