Professional product for nurseries to retail to landscapers ICL

Stuart Gammage, technical area sales manager for the East of England, introduces Osmocote PrePlant - a professional product for nurseries to sell to their landscaping clients to help ensure client satisfaction.

We all know how much time and effort goes into growing good quality plants on the nursery. By adding Osmocote to your growing media ensures plants get the best possible start while they are on your nursery. But what about when the plant leaves the nursery? What nurseries and their landscaping customers need, is for the end user to be happy – ie healthy plants that continue to perform well in containers or gardens.

By adding controlled release fertilizer at planting, landscapers can help ensure that the quality plants they’ve purchased from you will continue to flourish, and ultimately that their clients will return wanting more of your plants in the future.

Hungry plants

Let’s face facts most garden owners won’t regularly feed their new, or indeed existing, plants throughout the year. All too often plants soon get hungry, leading to poor, slow growth and stress - which can heighten the risk of pest and disease attacks.

The good news is that your landscaping customers and their clients can now benefit from using Osmocote PrePlant – a product that feeds plants in the garden for a whole season from a single application.

With nutrient release unaffected by the soil type, pH, moisture content or microbial activity, this product will work well in all areas of the UK. As release is temperature controlled, it can be applied at any time of the year as the nutrients will only be released when temperatures are conducive to plant growth.

Supplied in handy 1kg packs, each pack comes with rate recommendations for a wide range of trees and shrubs of different sizes. Osmocote PrePlant can be applied to the planting hole, or added afterwards as a topdress, this can be repeated in subsequent years to maintain plant growth and quality.

Releasing feed when the plant needs it and with minimal leaching into the environment, PrePlant is a safe, reliable and easy to use product giving professional results.

Retailing on your nursery

Osmocote PrePlant is available for nurseries to purchase and retail as 10 X 1Kg packs – an ideal add on product for landscapers when they are buying plants, growing media and pots from your shop or website.

It is available from all good distributors or alternatively contact your local ICL Technical Area Sales Manager for more information.

For more information on ICL’s range of top dressings, feed tablets, Preplant and water soluble fertilizers, speak to your Local Technical Area Sales Manager.