Behind the Scenes - Wholesale Plant Delivery
With a bit of help I recently delivered a truck load of wholesale plants to an East Bay Nursery. Here's a peek behind the scenes showing the process and a few lessons I learned along the way. One task I under estimated was the length of time it took to pull plants from my nursery. For smaller, previous orders this hadn't been obvious - for this larger order it probably took me the better part of a day to pick out suitable plants. Selecting a Group of Agave ellemeetiana "Santina" for the order As a one person operation I found it useful to roughly group the plants by size in a staging area the day prior to loading. Staging some of the smaller plants for loading It was also useful to stage any "dangerous" plants separately Some plants just clearly are not going to play nicely with one another in the back of a truck over miles of bumpy roads. It's convenient to have these grouped separately prior to loading. More staged plants Another task that see...
