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.

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12548	FRN	BNQ 0605-300	Produits de pépinières et de gazon
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Financial contributors

The development of this standard was made possible thanks to the financial support of the following organizations:

Standards Committee Members

Number of committee members: 14

Mr. Nicolas Baril	Pépinière Auclair et Frères
Mr. Guy Boulet	Fédération interdisciplinaire de l'horticulture ornementale du Québec
Mr. Gilles Couillard Després	École professionnelle de Saint-Hyacinthe (EPSH)
Ms. Marie-Claude Darveau	Groupe Richer
Mr. Martin Gaudet	Ville de Montréal
Mr. André Gosselin	Aiglon indigo
Mr. Guillaume Grégoire	Centre de recherche en innovation sur les végétaux Université Laval
Ms. Meagan Hanna	Société internationale d'arboriculture Québec (SIAQ)
Mr. Marc Légaré	Institut québécois de développement de l'horticulture ornementale (IQDHO)
Ms. Marie Nolet	Ministère des Transports
Mr. Yvon Racine	Association des surintendants de golf du Québec
Ms. Audrey Rondeau	Pépinière vert forêt nursery
Ms. Julie Tellier	Association des responsables d'espaces verts du Québec (AREVQ)
Mr. Gilles Éthier	Association des producteurs de gazon du Québec

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