Nursery business
On this site, we’d like to provide you with some general information on nursery businesses for a better understanding of our processes. Johnsons of Whixley is one of the longest established and largest commercial nursery companies in Europe and is the largest supplier of garden plants, container plants and specimen plants to the amenity sector in the UK.
Nursery business
Selection for sales requires comparison and judgement. A UK nursery business‘s manpower that accounts for 70% of the production costs is not uncommon. The largest UK nursery businesses have moved to minimise labour costs by the use of computer controlled warehousing methods.
Nursery business processes
A nursery business often grows plants in a greenhouse, a building of glass or in plastic tunnels, designed to protect young plants from harsh weather, especially frost, while allowing access to light and ventilation. Johnsons is a wholesale nursery business and mainly sells their products to retail nursery businesses and landscape gardeners. For that purpose, Johnsons’ has seven production sites through which they can meet the stock demands of other nursery businesses and landscape gardeners.
In general, a nursery business remains very labour-intensive. Yet, some nursery business processes have been automated and mechanised. Still it remains highly unlikely that all plants of a single nursery business treated equally at the same time will arrive at the same condition together. Therefore, nursery business plant care requires observation, judgement and manual dexterity, which Johnsons of Whixley values greatly.