Provender Nurseries are delighted to announce that they are now certified ‘ Plant Healthy ’ , one of the first group of ornamental supplier to the horticultural industriousness to gain credentials so far .
Plant Healthy is a new quality assurance scheme create to protect horticultural provision business against destructive pest and disease . Plant Healthy has been acquire by the industry , with input signal from Government and set up out fundamental demand for plant health management .
The Plant Healthy enterprise is a gamy spirit level of voluntary certification for works health in the UK , show that Provender Nurseries has a responsible and ongoing approach path to imbed health and biosecurity . The overall aim of Plant Healthy is to improve the plant health & biosecurity direction systems throughout the works supplying range with all appendage nurseries being audited each twelvemonth to ensure that the high standards are preserve and adhered to .
Systems in place at Provender Nurseries include : an closing off area for high - risk plants , that all plants purchased are quickly traceable back to point of origin , a new procedure for checking all line as it arrives on site , regular monitoring on site and a young white boots on web site policy . The scheme also cover plant husbandry already followed on land site with procedures including weed , pruning , feeding of plant and water storage and use around the greenhouse .
Stuart Tickner say , " These procedures and others that we transport out on site are part of our every Clarence Shepard Day Jr. cultivation of plant life procurement and are utilize at every step of our plant supply chain of mountains . We will continue to train our glasshouse team on a regular basis . On an yearly basis we currently organize training sessions with APHA on website for all staff . "
Richard McKenna says , " I am vastly gallant that Provender Nurseries have attain the Plant Healthy credential and for the acknowledgment this scheme deserves . All landscapist , designer and public spaces should use nurseries with such certification for peace of mind that stock has been grown and supplied from a web site with high standard of biosecurity . "
Provender Nurseries[email protected]www.provendernurseries.co.uk
