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The Farplants Group is one of the largest wholesale suppliers of outdoor plants to Garden Centres and Garden Centre chains in the UK. Based in West Sussex.

The Farplants Group is one of the largest wholesale supplier of outdoor plants to Garden Centres and Garden Centre chains in the UK.

09/10/2026

🌿 We are hiring: Key Accounts Sales Executive

Farplants supplies plants to some of the UK's leading garden centre groups. As the Key Accounts Sales Executive, you'll support our Key Accounts Manager and help our customers sell more of what we grow.

This is a sales-driven role with a focus on pre-season planning and preparation. You will make sure customers always have accurate availability from reserves, and you will be comfortable on the phone, turning nursery free stock into additional sales. If you enjoy sales and admin and take pride in getting the detail right, this is for you. As the role grows with you, there is scope to take on more responsibility within the Key Accounts team.

📍 Office-based: Farplants Sales Ltd, Yapton Lane, Walberton, BN18 0AS
🕒 Full-time: 37.5 hours per week
💷 £25,500 to £32,500 per annum, dependent on experience
👤 Reporting to: Key Accounts Manager
🚐 Occasional travel to UK horticultural shows (once or twice a year)
🌱 Plus staff discount on plants

📧 For full details, please email [email protected]

Deadline for application: 31st October 2026. No agencies please.

08/10/2026

🐴 Viola Bowls are the quiet workhorse of the autumn bench!

🍂 Our 21cm bowls come planted up and full of colour, so they sell themselves from the moment they go out, and they keep going long after much of the autumn colour has gone over. Violas flower on through the cold, pause only in the worst of the winter, and come back strongly in early spring, which gives a gardener months of value from a single purchase. For a garden centre that means a line which earns its space on the bench week after week rather than needing replacing.

🌸 New this week, we have 5L Hydrangea paniculata in two varieties. Living Pink and Rose is carrying creamy white conical heads right now, which deepen to pink as the season goes on, making it a lovely autumn seller. Levana is the taller of the pair, with large open flowerheads on striking red stems, so it makes a real statement at the back of a border. Both are reliably hardy, happy in sun or part shade, and ask very little once they are in.

🌿 Also on this week's highlights of our availability list: Camellia 3L, Euphorbia 2L, Evergreen Ferns 13cm, and Sempervivum SuperSemps® 13cm.

🪴 Don't forget to visit The Green Room (on our WebShop) to discover our House Plant collection, perfect for topping up a trolley with indoor lines.

📞 Please contact our sales team on 01243 553311 or visit the Farplants WebShop: Farplants Shop

07/10/2026

Good morning from the South West Growers’ Show!

Come and find us on Stand no. 1

Many thanks to David Salisbury for helping set up and filming this walkthrough - lots of focus on the 50 balloons 🎈 as Mr S has also recently had a similar celebration!🎉

We have lots of seasonal plants on display - 2 entries for the New Plant Awards!

Welcoming you to our stand are Frances Gracey and Wendy Wherton who cover the West Country.

02/10/2026

👋 Today we’re saying goodbye to Christopher Gardiner from our IT team after three years at Farplants. Chris is leaving on the very same date he joined, exactly three years later.

Trust IT to get the timing so precise! 📅

He’s been hugely helpful to everyone here, showing remarkable patience with our questions, technical troubles and “it was working a minute ago!” moments. Thank you, Chris, for keeping us connected and taking it all in your stride.

Our farewell gifts included a voucher, a book on cooking with eggs to put his chickens’ efforts to good use 🐔🍳 and some LEGO Botanicals, so he doesn’t completely forget about horticulture in his new role! 🌿

We’ll miss you, Chris. Wishing you every success in your next chapter, from all of us at Farplants! 💚

📸 Group photo, left to right: Frances Gracey, Lisa Amos, richard elliott, Jonathan Freestone, Jennifer Brown, Christopher Gardiner, Rachel Opryszko, Steven James, Jamie Bunce, Denise Burton, Melissa Cambray, Caren Feline and Lynn Cooper.

💻 And joining us on Zoom clockwise: Lynda Murphy, Georgina Ginnaw, Adam Smith, Russell Hutchings and Alison Belchamber.

01/10/2026

🌿 Skimmia 3L earns its place on the bench right through the colder months, combining evergreen foliage with attractive flower buds that bring lasting seasonal interest. We have three to choose from this week: Marlot with its deep red buds, alongside Finchy and White Globe with their fresh greenish-white buds, offering a lovely contrast for autumn and winter displays.

Their appeal continues into spring, when the buds open into fragrant white or creamy-white flowers.

🍂 There is more from our A-Z range this week too... Photinia Red Robin 3L brings the bright red new growth that customers recognise instantly, Ceanothus El Dorado 3L offers golden variegated foliage with the promise of blue flowers to come, and Choisya Goldfingers 2L gives fine golden leaves and a lovely scent when brushed past.

🌸 Also on this week's list: Camellia 3L, 21cm Viola bowls, Heuchera 13cm and 2L, and Sempervivum SuperSemps® 13cm

📍 We will be at the South West Growers' Show in Exeter on Wednesday 7th October, on Stand 1. Do come and find us if you are in that neck of the woods - it would be lovely to catch up!

30/09/2026

⏳ This time next week, we will be setting up on stand 1 at the South West Growers' Show!

🎉 The show celebrates its 50th Anniversary this year, and we're pleased to be part of it.

🌿 Come and find us at The Matford Centre, Exeter, on Wednesday 7th October, 9am to 4pm

The team (Wendy Wherton and Frances Gracey) would love to see you there and show you what we have been growing this season, including our award-entered Nepeta × faassenii EarliBlue™ and Anisodontea Carnival Lights® Cotton Candy Pink.

📍 One week to go - see you on Stand No.1!

29/09/2026

🍀 Today we’re saying goodbye and good luck to Alice as she heads to her next placement on the MDS graduate programme, with BASF in Stockport. 🌿

Alice has worked for our Key Account Manager Denise and has been a huge help to the marketing team and other colleagues across the The Farplants Group. We’ve appreciated everything she’s contributed, but we’ll miss her fun personality just as much - she’s been lovely to have around!

From all of us in the Farplants Sales Office, including those who couldn’t make it into the photo today: thank you, Alice. We wish you every success in Manchester! 💚

📸 From left to right: Steven James, Caren Feline, Jonathan Freestone, Jennifer Brown, Rachel Opryszko, Alice Murray, Denise Burton, Jennifer Brewster, Alison Belchamber, Russell Hutchings, Christopher Gardiner, Bianca Bulloch and Chris Chan.

25/09/2026

A Bright Bowl of Colour!

📸Our Operations Manager at our Binsted Nursery, Greg Tomalski, has been WhatsApping us some gorgeous photos from his crop walks this week, and these vibrant Viola bowls have certainly caught our eye!

🌸Flowering from now through winter and into spring, they are an easy impulse gift for customers looking for an instant splash of cheer.

🎃 We have a particular soft spot for the orange ones for Halloween, but with so many bright and cheerful colours in the range, there is something to tempt everyone

And the anthracite bowls? Perfectly understated, allowing the colourful contents to do all the talking

🌿 Viola Bowls 21cm available from Farplants

Please contact our sales team on 📞 01243 553311 or visit the Farplants WebShop to order yours

24/09/2026

🌸 Cyclamen are at their best right now, and our new Cyclamen Container range makes the most of them!

🪴 Mixed colour Cyclamen come planted into 18cm and 23cm premium zinc planters with black handles, or into a 30cm rustic wicker hanging basket, so they arrive finished and ready to go straight onto the display. They are the sort of thing a customer picks up on the way past, and the containers do a lot of the selling for you.

⏳ Numbers are strictly limited, so do let us know early if you would like them.

🌿 We also have our v11 Cyclamen in pots this week - ideal if you would rather build your own displays or keep a strong block of colour on the bench.

✨ Additionally on this week's list: Pansy Hanging Pots, Euphorbia Collection, Helleborus ViV®, Ferns, and Autumn Tubs & Baskets.

📞 Please contact our sales team on 01243 553311 or visit the Farplants WebShop: shop.farplants.co.uk

23/09/2026

🌿 ONE FOR EVERY CORNER

🔢 Four Heucheras, four different looks. Our 2L range gives your customers plenty of choice for adding colour, texture and contrast to those garden nooks and niches, whether they choose one… or four!

🌿 2L Heucheras available from Farplants

Please contact our sales team on 📞 01243 553311 or visit the Farplants WebShop to order yours

Address

Yapton Lane
Arundel
BN180AS

Telephone

01243 553311

Website

http://www.farplants.co.uk/

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