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Overcoming The Challenges Of Buying Plants & Trees

19/11/2024 - Services

Sourcing trees and plants can be time consuming and tedious to the extent that it almost sucks the joy out of establishing a planting scheme. However, the team at Arbour Landscape Solutions have developed tools to speed up the sourcing, quoting and procurement process. Read on to discover more.

woman wearing tweed jacket working at a desk in a modern office with plants on the windowsill

Arbour Landscape Solutions are well known within the landscape industry for sourcing and supplying hard landscaping materials. But did you know that we also offer a plant sourcing service? Based on Richard's experiences as a landscaper, we know that there's nothing more frustrating than trying to find suppliers for a multitude of different plant species, only to keep discovering your chosen varieties are out of stock, in one place, expensive in another and immature everywhere else.

Our plant sourcing service involves you uploading one document to our website, carrying on with your life for the next day or two and then receiving a fully priced list of plants that you'll be able to receive in (usually) a single delivery. So that's one website interaction, one day to wait, one delivery and one invoice. What could be simpler than that?

Here's how it works....

floating meadow with Tower Bridge London in the background

Arbour Landscape Solutions were proud to be asked to source plants and materials for the Burberry Floating Meadow.

 

 

A Speedy Solution To Plant Sourcing Challenges

The Upload Materials Lists function on the Arbour Landscape Solutions website has been developed in conjunction with Upshot Media and allows garden designers, professional gardeners, landscapers and self builders to simply send us their shopping list. It can be used for any hard landscaping or soft landscaping materials and saves our customers hours of internet searches, phone calls, and frustration. Customers tell us that "Upload Materials Lists" is particularly helpful when sourcing a diverse palette of plants.


There Are Two Stages To Using Upload My List
  1. Register online for a trade account with Arbour Landscape Solutions - it takes 2 minutes!
  2. Access your dashboard on the website, go to the ‘My Lists” tab and upload your planting list…..in any format.  Upload My List accepts excel documents, word documents, pdf’s photographs - pretty much anything. You can even take a photo of your hand-written list and upload that.

The Arbour Landscape Solutions team will contact nurseries on your behalf to find the exact plant palette you have specified.  Less than one working day later, your fully priced planting list will land in your email inbox.  The quote will be valid for a full 30 days, so there’s no immediate rush to place the order.

No Planting Plan? Here’s A Solution

If, like many landscapers, you’re not sure which plant species will best suit your garden layout, style and maintenance requirements - why not invest in a planting plan from My Garden Design?

 This is a relatively new service offered by Paul Baker of Holland Landscapes.  It’s easy to use, cost effective and fast.

Head over to the MGD website to discover more.

How To Order Plants And Trees From Arbour Landscape Solutions

At Arbour Landscape Solutions, we’re here to help you in whatever way we can.  And we’ll process your order in a way that suits you and fits with your business needs.

You can place an order by phone, by calling 0208 953 6177

Email [email protected]

Or send a message via Facebook or WhatsApp

We’ll contact you to discuss your preferred delivery date and your payment options - BACS, Credit Card or Account (terms and conditions apply)

Want to know more?

Please drop us an email to request a call back (and let us know the best time to call). One of the team will get in touch and answer any questions you may have about our plant sourcing service.

Click here to email us - we can’t wait to hear from you.

Learn more about our Upload My List feature

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