We have finished our new wholesale web site www.parkswholesaleplants.com – click on the highlight links to visit the site. Starting December 3, 2008, we will be using the blog located on that web site instead of this blog.
We still have #6 Red Poinsettias available along with a few of some other colors. Ignore the goober in the pictures and focus on the poinsettias. They look much better without him in the picture.
November 24, 2008 at 4:38 pm
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Due to Thanksgiving and to working on a new website, I will not be posting anything this week. Once we get the new website and blog up and running I will start posting again.
November 17, 2008 at 11:48 am
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This week is our first week for shipping a lot of poinsettias. Packing poinsettias is a pretty straight forward process. We pick through the crop passing over any that do not meet our specifications. We remove any yellow leaves on the bottom side of the plant. Yellow leaves on the underside are typical. The leaves are the oldest and receive the least amount of light under the canopy of the poinsettia. After that we place the poinsettia in a fiber/plastic sleeve and place the sleeved plants into a box for shipping.
Once all the boxes are packed we move them to a central greenhouse for loading. The boxes are labeled with color and size when they are packed then when they are loaded we place a colored dot sticker on each box that corresponds to a drop to facilitate quicker unloading at delivery. For instance the driver pulls up to ABC Garden Center, looks at his paper work and sees that they have 30 boxes on order that are marked with a red dot. The driver then unloads all the boxes with red dots, double checks the quantities and is on his way.
Here are some more pictures and a video of our crew packing poinsettias.
I didn’t get around to doing any of the posting this week that I had planned. I’m taking a few days off and will be back next week with poinsettias and more!
I’m back for a half day then gone agian until Tuesday. When I get back, I will post some more pictures of the poinsettias. They have really colored up this past week.
Plus we will have a new website for our wholesale up and running in a few weeks that we will want everyone to check out and tell us what you think of it. I also plan on doing a post about some of the changes that have occurred in the chain store market and how those changes might affect us and you. There will be new variety spotlights, more pictures and a few videos of poinsettias, plug production pics and more so be sure to check back to see what’s new!
Next are some pictures of what some of our poisettias currently look like.
Last, I will be out of the office most of next week and part of the week after that so I may not have time to do another blog post. If I do it will be short and sweet.
October 28, 2008 at 12:36 pm
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We have about 1000-1500 flats of J6 and #4 pansies left plus another 500-1000 J6 petunias and dianthus. So we are still working on getting those moved on out. Here is the lastest availability.
Poinsettia sales are strong and despite a 30% increase in production we are once again sold out of poinsettias. We have started what we call the “Wish List” and are keeping a record of who still needs poinsettias. Sometime we have some last minute changes that frees up a little bit of inventory. It also helps us plan what sizes and colors we need to increase.
Spring is in the process of being finalized. We start sowing the first seed this week. Our first shipments of fuchsai and ivy geraniums were stuck last week. In the coming weeks I plan to feature some of the new items we have added to our spring item list.
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