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Plain writing on running a nursery, from what a plant costs to keep to what your buyers want now.
What a small grower needs before selling plants: a state nursery licence and inspection, a sales tax permit, resale certificates and a separate account.
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What a plant patent stops a small grower doing, how to spot a protected variety, what trademarks and seed change, and how to propagate patented plants legally.
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How a small grower can price plants: count direct inputs, overhead and your own time, set a margin, stay out of a price war and raise prices each year.
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How a small grower can take plant photos on a phone that help them sell: soft light, a plain background, something for scale and the detail that sells.
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How a small grower can set up a plant stall that sells: display height, prices you can read, shade and water, taking cards, and judging whether a market pays.
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How a nursery or grower can show up when someone nearby searches for plants: a free Google Business Profile, accurate hours, real photos and honest reviews.
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Which platforms your buyers use, what growers should post, how often, and how to batch it into one hour a week so social media stops eating your evenings.
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What landscapers and garden centres expect from a small plant grower, what to settle before the first order, and how to keep the account for the next one.
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Many nurseries see their profit once a year. Why profit and cash differ, where margin leaks, and the monthly reports that catch it in time.
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Production cost is only half of it. How to work out the carrying cost of holding nursery stock from season to season, with a worked example.
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What a wholesale nursery's online shop has to do that a retail one does not, from approving trade buyers to private prices and order confirmations.
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Family operations are the largest group of nurseries by count, while corporate operations take 63% of sales. Where a small nursery can still compete.
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Surveys suggest most growers and garden centres see native plant demand rising. Why supply lags, what a grower can do, and how to read the figures.
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Most nursery sales are still ordered in person or by phone. What that limits, what trade buyers say they want, and what an online shop changes.
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Most farm and nursery owners intend to pass the business on, yet few have written down how. What the figures show and why plans stall.
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A plain guide for new growers to the words on a wholesale order: unconfirmed and confirmed, picking and the pick ticket, posting and unposting.
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A block with no order behind it is a bet on the market years out. The two ways growing on spec goes wrong and when a contract grow makes sense.
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How wholesale nurseries can run named price levels with quantity breaks and seasonal prices, and why paper price lists fail when you are busiest.
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Why nurseries sell the same plants twice, what it costs with a buyer, and the habits that keep promised stock apart from free stock at any size.
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Why nursery stock counts go wrong between the clipboard and the desk, how to run a count you can trust, and how to count by voice in the rows.
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Ready stock, promised stock, size and container, and who sees which price. The four nursery records that cost money when wrong, and what to skip.
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