What we did in 2020

What a challenging year 2020 has been! Both our business and customers have faced huge obstacles throughout the year and have adapted to a new way of living and working. Amidst the set-backs we are proud to say that we have accomplished some really great things!

Take a look at what we achieved in 2020…

Plants

2.5 million plants have been packed in the nursery! This is enough hedging to walk over 500 miles.

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We are happy to have been able to support UK growers by selling plants at a time when other outlets such as garden centres couldn’t do so due to lockdown closures.

Delivery

66k parcels and pallets delivered to our customers, contact free! We are so happy to have been able to deliver so many plants to our customers throughout the lockdown periods, encouraging people to get into their gardens and stay active in fresh air.

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We have also started making some deliveries in our own vehicle by our lovely driver, Graham!

Sales Team

Our sales team has taken 69,508 calls to customers looking for expert advice on our plants; 10,571 of those calls resulted in a sale to a happy customer ready to get stuck in the garden.

Office

Whilst our office time was short lived this year, we still managed to use a whopping 44,000 tea bags and 12,000 biscuits!

Charity

We are proud to announce that we will be donating £5,000 to Cancer Research UK this January, to help support the charity at this challenging time. We will also be donating a further £5,000 to benefit local charities, Derian House Children’s Hospice in Chorley and St. Catherine’s Hospice in Preston.

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We feel very strongly about the importance of giving to charity, especially at this time; charities are struggling more than ever from a lack of fundraising events and the unfortunate halt of research studies due to lockdown requirements.

Read more about our charity donation here.

Customer Care

This year we were awarded Platinum for Feefo’s Trusted Service Award! Given the crazy year it has been we are incredibly proud of this achievement.

Throughout the year we have grown our customer care team to provide the best possible level of service we can. Our customer care team have gone above and beyond this year, here’s what customers have to say about the service:

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Thank you

We can’t thank you enough for all of your support! This year has been difficult for everyone and we are really pleased that we could include that we have extended our opening hours so that our team can be there to support our customers when they need us.

We are planning to have a big team day out once normality returns in the new year to reward the team for all their efforts.