Plant specialist
A plant specialist like Johnsons often grows plants on fields or in a greenhouse, a building of glass or in plastic tunnels, designed to protect young specimen plants from harsh weather, especially frost, while allowing access to light and ventilation. Johnsons is such a plant specialist and mainly sells their products to retailers and landscape gardeners; many of which contacted Johnsons for contract growing. For that purpose, Johnsons has seven production sites through which they can meet the stock demands of other plant specialists and landscape gardeners.
Specialist in plants
In general, a plant specialist remains very labour-intensive. Yet, some specialist plant processes have been mechanised and automated. Still it is very unlikely that all plants of a single plant specialist treated equally at the same time will arrive at the same condition together. Therefore, specialist plant care requires observation, judgement and manual dexterity, which Johnsons of Whixley greatly values.
Selection for sales to garden centres requires comparison and judgement. A UK plant specialist‘s manpower that accounts for 70% of the production costs is not uncommon. The largest UK plant specialists have moved to minimise labour costs by the use of computer controlled warehousing methods.
If you’re looking for a plant specialist to provide you with the best in amenity plants, specimen plants or container plants, then Johnsons of Whixley is the nursery you’re looking for.