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EDITORIAL

ALLIED WHOLESALE GROWERS

In June 2022, three wholesale nurseries pooled their resources, joined hands and

developed a new strategy to market top quality ornamental plants. The soaring
diesel prices and rising production costs pre-empted the need to establish an
economical way to showcase more products to a wider market at a reduced cost.

This gave birth to The Allied Growers, fundamentally focused on providing a
convenient service to the retail and landscape markets.

T he three nurseries – 3Bushketeers
Wholesale
Brits,
Growers
in
Floriculture Wholesale Growers in
Pretoria and Roos Nursery Wholesale
Growers in Krugersdorp, individually
grow their own signature brand of plants.
They then combine the collective product
range and are able to offer customers a
one stop shop to save on unnecessary
logistical and fuel costs.
Jaco Maré (Floriculture), Andries Botes
(3Bushketeers) and Gerrie Roos (Roos
Nursery) manage the growing for The
Allied Growers. Leoni Maré regulates the
logistics and orders and Jancu Visagie is
the sales representative. Thea Botes is in
charge of bookkeeping.
The product range was initially limited
to each of the three nursery’s stock
lists but subsequently, an extended
growing schedule has included exciting
new varieties of plants - annuals
and perennials, colour bags, shrubs,
ornamental grasses, groundcover plants,
succulents and trees. Regular trials are
conducted at all three nurseries to ensure
uniformity in quality. A concerted effort
is made to stay updated on changing
trends. The inclusive availability list for
Allied Growers will be updated on a
weekly basis and emailed to customers.
The Allied Growers commenced
in July 2022 and visited nurseries in
Mphumalanga, Free Sate, North West,
Northern Natal and Limpopo province on
a regular basis. Customer feedback has
been positive.
The immediate objectives of the Allied
Growers are to:
• provide an excellent service to
customers;
• offer good quality plants;
• establish a wide customer base;
• enable speedy deliveries; and
• expand the routes to include the
Eastern Cape. n

WHOLESALE PLANT GROWERS
AND DISTRIBUTORS Jaco Maré 083 495 6962
Andries Botes 082 498 3321
Jaco Maré 083 495 6962 Gerrie Roos 082 410 7219
Andries Botes 082 498 3321
Gerrie Roos 082 410 7219
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