industry news Bransford Webbs announces its zero to landfill status


The Bransford Webbs Plant Company has announced its environmental credentials and have achieved the BS8555 accreditation for environmental management for ten consecutive years, having first achieved this important certification back in 2008. Its environmental objectives are reviewed


and updated on an annual basis and the company has said it remains essential that it proactively chooses the most environmentally friendly methods of production as possible. Among other targets, the company has


reduced its peat usage, and continues to catch, recycle and reuse all the rainwater which falls on the glasshouses and office / despatch buildings and have a 60KW solar panel system fitted to the main despatch shed roof. Its spray programs are developed to be


compatible with the wide range of biological control used on the nursery. The Bransford Webbs Plant Company said it is at the forefront of the industry initiative to replace black plastic pots with a taupe kerbside


recyclable alternative. In addition to these achievements, it is now also a zero to landfill business, in conjunction with Smiths of Gloucester, its waste collection contractors, with all its waste now being diverted away


from landfill. All waste, which traditionally would have


gone to landfill, is now diverted through other means, including Energy from Waste (EfW) and Refuse Derived from Fuel (RDF).


Briers team joins Smart Garden Products


Smart Garden Products has confirmed that the following staff has joined Smart from Briers:


Tara Truman – national account manager Charlotte Prentice – key account manager Domenic Guglielmucci – assistant category manager April Raven – graphic designer Emily Swindells – data & content controller


Plantscape opens second nursery


Plantscape has developed a new nursery site in Yorkshire in response to rising demand for its self-watering planters and hanging baskets by towns, cities, In Bloom groups and BID organisations across the UK. The new 10,000 sq ft facility in York will enable the company to produce another 1,200 planters a year. Its current 100,000 sq ft nursery complex in Derbyshire grows plants for 12,500 planters. The new site, which consists of a large greenhouse and five polytunnels,


will be used to service some of Plantscape’s contracts in the north and Scotland including historic walled cities York and Chester. Plantscape has also just won a new summertime floral contract with Oban Business Improvement District in Scotland which has been successfully using the company’s solar powered Christmas trees for the past three winters. York BID operations manager at the time, Elliot Sawyer, said: “We wanted


to fill the city with colour during the summer months. The planters have attracted a lot of positive comments from businesses, residents and visitors.” The Plantscape nursery team in York will begin planting up around 11,000


plug plants, including fuchsias, surfinia, petunias, begonias, verbena, bacopa, nepeta and geranium, in April, while the Egginton team plant up 118,000. The 14,000 planters will be distributed to well over a hundred councils, universities, Business Improvement Districts, retail parks and In Bloom groups across the UK in May and June.


GCU March/April 2019 Jonathan Stobart, managing director of Smart Garden


products commented: “We’re delighted to welcome this cohort of Briers personnel into our business which will help us integrate the Briers product ranges into Smart and develop the brand ongoing. We now have a firm grip on the supply chain for gloves & boots and are rebuilding stock levels as fast as we can to help customers with supply ongoing.”


TL – April Raven, TM – Charlotte Prentice, TR – Domenic Guglielmucci, BL – Emily Swindells, BR – Tara Truman


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