Welcome to Prenplants

Prenplants is a family run wholesale herbaceous nursery producing a wide range of high quality container grown plants for sale mainly to garden centres in South East England. While 80% of sales is to Garden Centres, an increasing amount of plants are sold into the landscaping and amenity market.

The nursery has been established on the site for twenty one years and produces over 250,000 container plants. We are continuing to increase the range and numbers. To ease handling and help you display our plants, all are delivered in attractive, returnable correx trays. Plants are produced in rigid pots and individually labeled, using picture labels where available.

HAPPY NEW SEASON FOR 2010 FROM PRENPLANTS

Well, the snow has gone, hopefully for good but British winters always have a habit of coming back and biting you on the bum just when you are least expecting them. Our plants have survived the weather, although one of our twin spans didn’t but there was little plant damage so we go into 2010 with our best range of plants for many a year.

It is our aim to grow a good strong plant that is as hardy as possible and has not been forced under protection which would make them very susceptible to frost and cold early in the year.

New Catalogue

Our new catalogue has been dispatched, so if you haven’t got one and require a copy let us know. We’ve reduced the size of our catalogue but have increased our range of plants so despite being small it’s absolutely packed with delightful plants. We have all the familiar favourites but lots of new, unusual and exciting plants to tempt your customers. We have already received favourable comments that the smaller catalogue slips easily into the pocket and is extremely useful as a quick reference guide.

GAN Show

On Wednesday 10th February 2010 we will be at the GAN Trade show near Bournemouth (www.ganshow.com). We are on Stand 112 in Hall B. It’s a bit nearer the entrance than before (We wanted to see more people sooner and not have to wait ages before any one turned up). It is farther from the refreshments but you can’t have every thing. We are looking forward to seeing lots of our old friends and customers and hopefully making some new ones. We will have details of our new introductions for 2010 and samples of our new labels. (see below).

New Labels

In recent years, because we are growing a range of unusual plants, we have found it increasingly difficult to obtain good quality labels. We have tried printing our own but have been disappointed by the material and quality available. So we are going to have our own printed. The labels have been designed by our own graphic genius Rach, (who has taken many of the pictures) with some help from our printers Advance Bunzl. We won’t be changing all our labels overnight but will be fazing them in over the next year or so. However we think that they are rather good and will really increase your plant sales.

We are a British nursery growing high quality reliable plants so we have included the home grown logo on our label. We feel it is important to promote products produced locally. Further details of the “Home Grown Scheme” can be found on Stand 48 at GAN or at www.hdc.org.uk .

Less Waste More Profit

One of the comments that have come back from our customers this season is that our plants sell. Customers find that our plants continue to look good over a period of time and tend to sell out with little wastage thus increasing the profit to the garden centre.