Nursery company
Selection for sales to garden centres requires comparison and judgement. A UK nursery company‘s manpower that accounts for 70% of the production costs is not uncommon. The largest UK nursery companies have moved to minimise labour costs by the use of computer controlled warehousing methods.
On this website, we’d like to provide you with some general information on nursery companies for a better understanding of our processes. Johnsons is one of the longest established and largest commercial nursery companies in Europe and is the largest supplier of specimen plants, garden plants and container plants to the amenity sector in the UK; many of which are grown through contract growing.
Nursery company processes
In general, a nursery business remains very labour-intensive. Yet, some nursery company processes have been automated and mechanised. Still it remains highly unlikely that all plants of a single nursery company treated equally at the same time will arrive at the same condition together. Therefore, nursery company plant care requires observation, judgement and manual dexterity, which Johnsons of Whixley values greatly.
A nursery company 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 company and mainly sells their products to retail nursery companies and landscape gardeners. For that purpose, Johnsons’ has seven production sites through which they can meet the stock demands of other nursery companies and landscape gardeners.