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How it all happens!  A week during shipping season

 

1.  Orders are downloaded from the Internet, processed, assigned a ship date and the physical paperwork is filled by ship week.  Luckily, in shipping by zones in busy Spring, the shipments manage to balance themselves out fairly evenly and we aren't overloaded in any one week. 

2.  Monday morning, a list is handed out listing all plants to be shipped the following week, alphabetically by greenhouse (this is a greenhouse in January with plants getting ready for your garden!)

They're pulled all week and are brought to the shipping greenhouse by golf cart, (22 trays to a cart, so it takes many trips).  During spring it takes 5 days + to pull all the plants for orders for the next week.

 

 

 

3. In the shipping house, the plants from various houses are collated into orders.  Orders are placed on tables by the day they're scheduled to ship. (There's a similar set of tables on the opposite side of the house as well!)  All plants are prepped and tidied up.  Orders to the West Coast are dipped in chemicals to meet West Coast's stringent requirements.

And the other set of tables with plants waiting to go to your garden. As you can see, the majority of these plants are up and growing would NOT want to be exposed to freezing weather in transit.

5.  Monday morning comes bright and early and this portable file box of orders for the week, (now crammed full) gets matched with it's plants and turned into boxed orders.

 

 

 

6. On Monday (a week after we started pulling) we start wrapping the plants for shipment.   (And the pullers at the same time start pulling plants for the following week!)  Our staff carefully wrapping each plant for shipment.

7.  After being wrapped and boxed, address labels attached,  boxes are weighed and postage is applied.

8.  By 1:00 pm, the first boxes are ready for pick by the Post Office.  There will be another load this size for the afternoon pick up.  At the peak of the busy season, 8 loads like the above leave in a week!
     
 

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