Proteaflora is a wholesale nursery providing first quality Proteaceae to Australian nurseries, garden centres and cut flower growers both in Australia and overseas. Proteaflora was founded in 1974 by the late Peter Mathews, to supply his own flower plantation with Proteas. He saw the potential of Proteas as a major cut flower and nursery crop, capable of being developed in the same way other horticultural flowers had been. Until this time there had been little breeding. Most flower picking was from the wild. Proteas were not well understood as a nursery crop.
Proteaflora
is now run by brothers David and Andrew Mathews and wives Ilse and Sue. From
our home in Victoria's Dandenong Ranges, we have become the dominant Protea
nursery in Australia. Our location gives us the advantages of easy access to
our Melbourne metropolitan market, adequate rainfall and sunshine, access to
key raw materials and good, reliable staff. We have the crucial benefit of a
freight transport system that ensures our plants are delivered in top condition,
on time, to our customers locally, interstate and overseas.