Our Company

Ramm Botanicals is a multi award winning business that commenced trading in December 2002, having merged the entities Yates Botanicals and Ramm Pty. Ltd. The company has its own plant breeding programs and also represents outstanding plant breeders from within Australia and around the world. We have a dedicated product development team working on breeding and development of Australian native genera suited to international markets.

We operate on two sites on the beautiful Central Coast of New South Wales. Our larger tissue culture laboratory operates at Somersby, whilst our young plant nursery, second laboratory, R&D facility and administration offices are located on the Pacific Highway at Tuggerah.

We believe in a strong and progressive nursery industry that presents great products of high quality. We are proud members of the Nursery & Garden Industry of NSW & ACT (NGINA), are NIASA-accredited and EcoHort accredited.

The company is responsible for marketing, propagation and distribution of tissue cultures and young plants to both domestic and export markets. We principally market ornamental and commercial landscape plants, however we also produce other significant crops such as teak for plantation timber.

In 2008, our company won three national industry awards in the 'Best Large Production Nursery', 'Training' and 'Export' categories announced at the Nursery and Garden Industry national conference.  We repeated the Export prize in 2009.

We do not supply direct to the public, nor to retailers, rather, we supply many hundreds of wholesale growers in Australia with rooted young plants. In turn, these growers either finish supplied plant material or use our elite young plants as the basis for their cutting programs.

Our Anigozanthos (kangaroo paw) breeding program is the world's biggest. We distribute kangaroo paws as tissue cultures to many markets including U.S.A., Europe and Japan.

Ramm Botanicals employs around 90 people, mostly involved in direct production. Around 45 work in our laboratories and 25 in the nursery. We operate as many as 35 laminar flows (see below) where all tissue culture production takes place. We produce several million tissue cultures each year for domestic and export markets. We have also organised contract production in Sri Lanka, principally to feed our growing export markets.

Many people ask 'what is tissue culture?' Without getting too technical, tissue culture is a form of asexual plant propagation that is conducted in a sterile, laboratory environment. The process is often referred to as 'micropropagation'. Tissue culture can be used to multiply the plant over a relatively short period of time, each plant being a clone of the original. The laboratory environment minimises viral and fungal infection and maintain a plant's health and vigour. Tissue culturing also allows us to propagate plants out of season.

Many of the plant varieties marketed by Ramm Botanicals are protected by PBR or are PBR-eligible. These rights are a form of intellectual property, like patents and copyright, and are administered under the Plant Breeder's Rights Act 1994.