Wholesale nursery
Johnsons of Whixley is one of the longest established and largest wholesale nurseries in Europe and is the largest plant supplier to the amenity sector in the UK. Therefore we’d like to provide you with some general information on nursery businesses for a better understanding of our business' processes.
wholesale nursery processes
A wholesale nursery often grows plants (sometimes through contract growing) 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 wholesale nursery and mainly sells their products to retailers and landscape gardeners. For that purpose, Johnsons has seven production sites through which they can meet the stock demands of other plant specialists and landscape gardeners.Wholesale plant care
In general, a wholesale nursery remains very labour-intensive. Yet, some wholesale nursery processes have been mechanised and automated. Still it is very unlikely that all plants of a single wholesale nursery treated equally at the same time will arrive at the same condition together. Therefore, wholesale nursery 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 wholesale nursery‘s manpower that accounts for 70% of the production costs is not uncommon. The largest UK wholesale nurseries have moved to minimise labour costs by the use of computer controlled warehousing methods.
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