Stewarts Office Plants

We supply many businesses across the South, from Sussex and Surrey, through Hampshire and Dorset to Wiltshire and Somerset. For more information about the services we offer visit our home page, or contact us here. In this blog you'll find news, interesting snippets, stories and pictures of our staff's adventures out on the road.

Friday, October 06, 2017

Christmas is over for 2017


Following on from a similar post this time last year, this is a slightly misleadingly-titled post as clearly on October 6th, Christmas is not over.

However, if you were hoping to order one of our ever-popular fully decorated Christmas trees, it is over, as we have now firmly shut the order book, having admitted more last-minute orders than we may find was wise.

We run out of:
 - greenhouse capacity for the made-up trees (as you can see in the photo above!)
 - time to deliver them
 - actual stock of trees
 - and most crucially, time to collect them.

This last point is the killer. We deliver them all over Dorset, Hampshire and Wiltshire in one van over about two weeks. However, we only have the three (occasionally four) working days between New Year and Twelfth Night to get them all back. Thankfully we borrow two extra vans from two of the garden centres to achieve this, but it's still quite a challenge.

So note to potential Christmas tree customers: if you want one next year, it's best to contact us in late summer/early autumn. 

Jonathan