The visitors were split into two groups and led on their tours by Tim Lawrance-Owen, Pass President 2016 of IPPS Europe, and Daria Pawlik, Operations & Despatch Manager at Binsted Nursery. The group toured a number of key areas at both nurseries, including:
- Walberton’s Propagation unit, which produces around half of its almost 1 million production units
- Walberton’s 0.9 acre glasshouse completed in 2015, and its adjoining rainwater attenuation tanks capable of holding 750,000 litres of water
- Binsted’s new reservoir, which supplies the nursery with most of its irrigation needs, with flood pond and wild meadow, also completed in 2015
- Farplants’ two acre Finishing Centre, where on a busy day, the Farplants cooperative of nurseries can send through up to 1800 trolleys full of plants to over 1000 Garden Centres around the country; that’s 70,000 trolleys per year across 3,500 stock lines
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Tristram Plants
www.tristramplants.co.uk