Down in the depths of Nicholsons a new generation of plants is being prepared for the big outdoors on our nursery. Our potting crew come seasonally and through their attentioin to detail, hard quality control and loving potting they produce the quality raw material - plants in pots. For the rest of the year our nurseymen, cane, prune, spray, water, feed and move and generally pamper these plants mercilessly.
Some of the plants they pot come to us in a pot and are then potted on, the majority are bare rooted transplants that started life in a field and are potted up for the first time in their lives - luxury! The root system that they devolop gives them a huge advantage when planted whether it is a hedging plant or a tree - in one year the roots will have made it to the edge of the pots without having become root bound. We will also pot on our own crops and see them from a litte 20cm plug right through to a 35lt pot, over the course of 4-5 years. Only then are they let loose on the world - with their manners, we hope, intact.
