The miraculous nursery: this cradle of Andalusian reforestation produces half a million trees a year
The nursery of San Jerónimo cultivates exemplary to restore and regenerate the Andalusian natural landscape The largest nursery in Andalusia is located in Seville and treasures in its space the native tree species that will reforest in the future the landscapes of this region of southern Spain.
This is the San Jerónimo nursery, in Seville, a key piece of the restoration of ecosystems and the production of forest plant adapted to the Andalusian territory. This nursery also stands out for its high level of technification within the network of public nurseries of an indigenous forest plant in Andalusia and from here they leave every year more than half a million trees destined for repopulations, landscape restoration actions and land restoration actions Environmental improvement. Million million trees in concrete, in the 2024-2025 campaign, have been 514,700 copies produced and 571,559 those who have finally left this Andalusian tree cradle for distribution, adding specimens in stock of the nursery of other seasons. The counselor of sustainability and environment of the Junt Scientific that develops in this center, which covers from the production of native forest plant to the development of advanced vegetative propagation techniques and recovery by transplantation through the method of the enclosed and plaster. From San Jerónimo, it has an extension of 100,000 square meters and has been responsible for some of the most significant actions in forest restoration in Andalusia. In the nursery facilities, specifically, more than 1.7 million plants have occurred in recent years to the natural space of Doñana. Most of them, in total 1.1 million, have been allocated to projects of the Ministry of Sustainability and Environment for the restoration and environmental improvement of the land affected by the forest fire that affected this space in 2017. Everything, it shows its capacity for response to environmental catastrophes. It has been a key piece to recover a natural symbol of Andalusia, such as Doñana, and continues to be today to advance in the fight against desertification, the Andalusian responsible has remarked.
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