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COUNTRY LIFE IN BC • JULY 2018


Great spring for nurseries Challenge is to keep ahead of trends in gardening


by DAVID SCHMIDT LANGLEY – Good spring weather leads to


good years for nursery growers and retailers. And because this was a good spring, “it’s been a great year for retailers,” Mike Mills of Sunshine Coast Nursery said at the BC Landscape and Nursery Association end-of- season


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spring followed several heavy winter snowfalls and a late ice storm. However, neither caused much


damage to growers. Simon Bos of Qualitree Propagators noted they


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“Asian-style easy-care landscapes are in and English country gardens are out,” he added. Mills said retailers are constantly looking for new plants but Mosterman responded that growers “can meet trends but not fads,” pointing out propagators “need two years to grow a tree.”


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lost a couple of cold frames but no plants. Sylvia Mosterman of Mosterman Plants did lose a few plants to snow damage but none to the ice storm. Consumer preferences have changed considerably in the 16 years Mills has owned his garden centre. “When I started, annuals were number one;


now they are number four or five,” he said. Sales of fruit trees are also down, says


Leanne Johnson of GardenWorks, one of BC’s largest independent retailers. Instead, tropical plants are becoming more popular as are any plants in “funky” indoor pots. A lot of people are also moving away from decorative plants and moving toward food plants, “but no one knows how to do it,” says Mike Evison of Calibre Landscaping. “If you can educate them how to grow


vegetables, it would help,” he told BCLNA staff. Evison also told growers to focus on smaller


plants saying consumers “want plants that grow three-feet tall, not 10-feet tall.”


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SPRINKLERS & CARTS A size for any pasture, arena or garden. Johnson said sales of pollinator plants are


also increasing, even though GardenWorks has not yet participated in the BCLNA’s “Plant Something Bee Friendly” promotional program. Mills, on the other hand, gave the program the thumbs up. “It’s a complementary program to what


we’re already doing.” BC Ministry of Agriculture nursery specialist


Dave Woodske also updated BCLNA members on efforts to halt the spread of the Japanese beetle. After the invasive pest was found in a small area of Vancouver last year, the area was quarantined by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, meaning no soil-bearing plants are allowed out of it. The City of Vancouver has set up a special green waste disposal site within the quarantine area. Woodske says there will be extensive monitoring for the pest this year, noting the beetle has the potential to devastate the local industry if it spreads.


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