Production
Production & Operations
Trees thickening up in the field, shrubs growing on in pots, young plants spending their first year under glass. This page covers what goes on at each site and how a plant gets ready to travel.
460,000 m² in four regions
Besides the head office site in Yalova, we grow in Terkos, Bursa and Sakarya. Part of the 460,000 m² is growing ground; the rest is holding and storage space used before dispatch.
The same species is often grown in more than one region, so a large order can be picked from several sites and brought together on a single load.
The growing sections
Each has its own watering, upkeep and lifting season.
Field rows
Specimen trees grow in the open ground, where roots spread freely and stems put on girth quickly. When a tree is sold, it is lifted with its root ball.
Container stock
Most shrubs, conifers and topiary are pot-grown. Pot size is recorded in litres — 10 L, 25 L, 50 L, and 100 L or more for larger trees.
Glasshouse and shade
Young plants and frost-tender species start here. Once the roots have filled the pot, they move outside.
Topiary
Balls, cones, cubes and spirals are shaped with shears. Box and yew are clipped two or three times a year, and a spiral takes several years to settle into shape.
Getting a load ready
How a field-grown tree is prepared for the road
Container plants skip lifting and wrapping; everything else is the same.
Tagging
Each tree set aside for an order gets a tag with the project name. If the client has visited and chosen it, that is exactly the tree that goes.
Lifting
The ball is sized to the stem — the thicker the trunk, the bigger the ball. Deciduous trees are lifted while dormant, usually between November and March.
Wrapping
The ball is wrapped in hessian and, on larger trees, tightened inside a wire basket. A ball that breaks up in transit tears the fine roots and sets the tree back.
Labelling
Every plant carries a label with its species, height, girth or pot size, and project details. The packing list is drawn up from those labels.
Loading
Trees are lifted by the ball, never by the stem. Balls are watered just before loading and crowns are covered so they don't dry out in the wind.
What does “25 L, 100–125 cm” mean on a plant list?
For container stock, the first figure is pot size and the second is height. “25 L, 100–125 cm” means a 25-litre pot with a plant between 100 and 125 cm tall, measured from the top of the compost.
For trees the key measurement is girth, taken 1 m above ground in centimetres and given as a range: 14/16, 16/18, 20/25. Topiary is specified by the height and width of the shape.
If a line is missing its sizes, we ask while preparing the quote. “Large plane tree” can describe two very different trees.
Different loads, different paperwork
A lorry heading to a site in Türkiye isn't prepared the same way as an export shipment.
Deliveries within Türkiye
- Labels by project and planting zone
- Loaded in the order it will be unloaded
- Advance notice if a crane or forklift is needed on site
- Holding and watering notes in case planting is delayed
Export
- Phytosanitary certificate
- Labels in the language the importing country requires
- Transit packing for root balls and pots
- Packing list with weights
Questions about production
What's the difference between a container plant and a field-grown tree?
A container plant keeps its whole root system in the pot, so it can be planted in any month as long as it is watered through the summer. A field-grown tree arrives with a root ball and is best lifted and planted while dormant, usually November to March.
What if you don't grow a species on our list?
We source it from other growers in Türkiye or abroad. Those lines appear under a separate heading in the quote, with their own delivery date.
Can a large order be split into phases?
Yes. Loads follow the planting sequence, so the first lorry carries whatever goes in the ground first.
Can we see the plants before they're loaded?
Book a visit and you can walk the rows and pick the plants yourself before they are tagged.
Send us a list with sizes
Species, quantity and size is all we need. The quote will show which lines are ready and at which site.