The Challenges and Cost of Holding Trees for Mid to Late Season Planting

We are all in the business to make a dollar and it does not matter whether you are a landscape contractor or nursery selling the trees. Costs are going up for everyone and we all need to have the proper cash flow coming into our operations to ensure the bills and people can be paid. Trees in holding areas for nurseries end up costing money not generating it, so it’s important that this inventory gets turned into cash in a timely fashion.

At this time, there appears to be a shortage of trees at nurseries due to less liners being planted in previous seasons and larger demand in the US for B&B trees. Nurseries are struggling with how to best approach cost increases without causing tension in the relationships they have built with contractors. Inflation is real and causing headaches for all operations. The best thing to do to combat inflation is to ensure product is sold and holding contractors accountable by implementing non-refundable deposits to secure the product and to adopt some sort of maintenance fees whether its weekly, monthly or seasonal. Looking south to the Denver, Colorado area, there’s a large amount of re-wholesale nurseries whose job it is to bring in

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