The "biggest garden plant supermarket in the South West" has opened near Yeovil. The incredible new venue claims to sell outdoor items at "half the price" of regular garden centres.
Plants Galore recently launched its massive new site on Foldhill Lane near Martock just off the A303 - and it is "like visiting Cadbury World but for garden plants", according to its co-owner, reports Somserset Live. The location is the garden chain's fourth site - joining three existing sites in Devon - and is situated next to Plants Galore's own 14-acre nursery, which it opened in 2010. The nursery is one of the largest bedding plant and hanging basket nurseries in the South West.
It takes around an hour and 20 minutes to reach the venue from Bristol. But Co-owner Tony Joyner says the trip is worth it as the site has so many exciting plants on offer.
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He said: "We specialise in growing millions of seedlings and cuttings at our Somerset nurseries near Martock. This means we can miss out the middleman garden centre and sell our garden plants direct to the public at half the normal garden centre price.
"It’s a proven successful business model with our three huge stores in Devon now turning over £10 million and we can now offer Somerset customers and Somerset businesses the chance to buy the very best quality home grown garden plants - at half the price. We can also offer a comprehensive range of plants with unique colours as we control the growing and can select the very best seed and cutting varieties that we know perform best for our customers.
"We have been very successful with Yeovil Christmas Tree Centre over the years selling tens of thousands of Christmas trees and have opened the Yeovil nurseries at seasonal times to the public. However, we have now created a beautiful permanent garden plant store which will be open every day and packed full of stunning plants and a great range of garden sundries."
Plants Galore expects to increase its total number of employees to more than 100 with this latest expansion. Mr Joyner said: "This is great news for the local Somerset economy – we can cut the cost of gardening for the Somerset public and also provide employment and over £1 million investment in the Somerset area.
"We are a family business based in Totnes in Devon since 1959. In 2010 we moved our growing operation to our nurseries at Martock near Yeovil and have continued to transform our business every year since then.
"We hope in time to be able to offer schools and horticultural societies a tour of our nursery, showing the process from how plants are grown all the way through to being sold in our stores. We want to allow the general public a behind-the-scenes look at large scale commercial horticulture and how it is becoming more automated with robotics and technology.
"It would be great to offer the Somerset public and tourism industry refreshments and access to one of the biggest nurseries in the South West. Like visiting Cadbury World but for garden plants."
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