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April 2008

April has seen changes to the Boultons web site with new pictures and product information. Our new ‘trade only’ section has been set up to allow existing and new customers to view our stock lists on line and down load a copy of our catalogue. A new ‘looking good’ section has been included which will give the customer an instant view of our latest ‘looking good’ plants. This will be updated on a daily basis.

March 2008

March saw the new season potting in full swing on the nursery site at Moddershall. Our usual bareroot potting was this year replaced by cell grown stock. Cell grown stock enabled us to pot these items more efficiently and also to ensure UK provenance stock which is increasingly required in today’s landscape projects. Our commitment to the use of green waste growing medium has continued this year with us potting 40,000 2 and 3 LT pots. This has allowed us to pot a greater range of hardy nursery stock using the peat free compost, and look forward to the results later this year.

Potting also saw the introduction this year of jiffy bio-degradable pots for our liner production. This has proved very beneficial during potting as the liners were potted directly without the need for removing pots (thus reducing time and waste product). We are very happy with the results, and we have increased liner production using the jiffy pots to 80,000 units this year, replacing all plastic pot liner production on the nursery. The use of jiffy pots has dramatically increased efficiency on potting and greatly reduced waste product, and Boultons are now fully committed to using these pots for all of the liner production on the nursery.

Our mobile potting unit received major upgrades over this winter, seeing the introduction of new ramps and a self levelling system to aid better, safer access for our employees. The biggest change has seen a brand new potting machine and compost hopper installed.

During March our field production team got to work on a new four year planting programme. Land was cleared in readiness for the new planting. This stock will be produced with little or no end waste product and careful land management will see a dramatic reduction in the use of chemical herbicides and fertilizers. Simply, our aim is to produce a ‘clean green’ plant.

Our field production team has had a very busy year with sales of field grown shrubs seeing a dramatic increase. Our field manager John Wilkinson said ‘it’s been a year to remember, we have been flat out all season lifting’. With this in mind several upgrades to the field production infrastructure are planned this year to aid more efficient lifting and response to increasing demand for this quality product.

November 2007

Our new catalogue was finally finished and is now available by download from here.

It is also available in hard copy or CD-Rom by request.

October 2007

The start of major grounds works on the nursery site at Moddershall. New drains have been installed to provide faster water dispersion off all growing areas on the nursery. Further to this, new roads have been constructed to allow better access on the nursery for dispatching and potting.

A new irrigation system has been installed providing more efficient use of water and electricity. New nozzles have also been trialled to make better use of water (directing water where it's needed)

July 2007

This month saw the completion of our brand new propagation area. This includes space for an additional 60,000 liners and a state of the art cutting preparation area. Other changes in propagation have been the use of peat free plug trays and Bio-degradable pot liners.

March 2007

This month saw increased use of peat free compost in our 5Lt pot production We now grow over 30,000 plants in peat free compost and are looking to increase this year on year.

January 2007

Boultons has stepped up its commitment to the environment and is now sending all plastic, cardboard and other waste materials to a re-cycling unit based in Staffordshire.

March 2006

This is the heated annexe of our new propagation aftercare unit. These plugs will soon be prepared for Spring potting and liner production.