HEREFORDSHIRE
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We are a wholesale nursery producing an exceptionally wide range of Hardy Nursery Stock, for sale to garden centres throughout much of the UK. We are particularly known for our wide range, which includes some of the more unusual, sought-after, varieties. We grow everything we sell; we are nurserymen not traders. More than 90% of what we sell is propagated in-house.
Our Plants
The range of plants that we have to offer you is exceptional. We understand that not everyone needs a full trolley of, say, Heathers in a single delivery. You want two trays of 9cm heathers? Not a problem … with all our other products available, we can quickly complete your order from one supplier, which you know means less paperwork and more time for you to look after your customers, staff and plants. The vast majority of our propagation material comes from well established mother plants here on our site.
This enables us to manage these plants to optimise the material available (depending on whether we wish to produce scions for grafting or to produce cuttings), ensure that they are disease free and, as importantly, true to name. Included in our site are approximately six acres of open ground in which we not only grow our rootstock stems for top-grafting, but a proportion of our container grown stock spend two years in this ground as well. These include Hamamelis, Viburnum, Magnolia and some Thuja.
These should not be confused with containerized plants – ours are fully rooted container grown plants which have had the benefit of having already spent time in the ground, and they still have Herefordshire clay on their roots!
Our Services
We generally use our own transport to deliver our stock, meaning that most customers will receive delivery the same week; some may have even experienced our ‘same day’ or ‘Saturday’ service. We want to send you fresh plants for you to sell … remember this is generally in our own transport, driven by our own drivers, who represent John Richards Nurseries. For our valued Customers from whom we are more distantly located we use a specialist delivery contractor – generally White Logistics.
Also available to our Customers is a sample van visit (like a mobile library but a lot more fragrant, and a lot more to look at than you can fit in the boot of a car!). Kate will arrange for one of us to visit your Centre and show you the stock that’s looking good or take your reserve orders, which then guarantees your stock is held for you.
Our Site
We are 850 ft above sea level, just to the west of the Silurian shale foothills of the plutonic Malvern Hills. We are on the Devonian sandstone and have four distinct soil types on our 35 acre site. Local people like to boast “there is no higher ground”, in a certain easterly direction, “between these hills and the Ural Mountains”! Yes, when the wind is from the east … !
We have an on-site cold storage facility which allows us to protect our plants (especially the root and stem base) while inducing hardiness. This also enables us to give our stock (rooted cuttings, liners etc) a ‘winter’ inside – thus ensuring vernalization – when we often don’t have a proper one outside! We set this working and start to fill it around November, and empty it when the last frost has passed. Set to 2 degrees centigrade, this means we can dispatch – even to Northern regions – hardy plants in early Spring.
