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Jul 29, 2023

A growing opportunity

Evergreen Nursery was founded in 1864 as a grower of evergreen seedlings and transplants. Almost 160 years later, we are more vibrant and stronger than ever, growing a wide range of evergreen species

Evergreen Nursery was founded in 1864 as a grower of evergreen seedlings and transplants. Almost 160 years later, we are more vibrant and stronger than ever, growing a wide range of evergreen species in a variety of sizes.

Each year, Evergreen Nursery produces more than 1.5 million Gro-Plugs®, 600,000 2-year potted liners, 350,000 #1 and #5 container liners, just in evergreens alone. We also produce 100,000 bare root birch liners as well.

Owners Ron and Kris Amos are looking ahead to retirement and would like to find another nursery or individual that will continue our tradition of excellence, and most importantly, keep our dedicated long-time staff employed doing the jobs they have loved for years. Keeping our employees with the nursery is a goal of the Amos family.

Evergreen Nursery is an established operation and has always had a solid reputation for being a key producer of evergreen liners shipping across the United States. Many of our customers have said we are a critical unique footprint in the nursery industry and without us, there would be a void that would be difficult to fill.

We have fine-tuned our standard operating procedures to the point of having printed manuals for almost every activity at the nursery. This makes it so easy for the next owner to really have the turnkey operation experience once they take ownership. Ron has trained our growers and cultivated a management team that is more than capable of running the day-to-day operations.

Due to such an increase in new customer volume, Evergreen Nursery has added two outside sales representatives in addition to our current office staff. We have a diverse customer base consisting of landscape contractors, landscapers, grafting nurseries, garden centers and Christmas tree growers. These customers we have the pleasure of serving are located from coast to coast. We have a wide range of small, medium and large customers that keeps us well balanced. We are not a business that has all their eggs in one basket.

Our evergreen programs have always been on the forefront of innovation. From originally designing our own root-controlled tray, to starting plug production in the Pioneer tray, growing our #1 in root-controlled pots, we have always put the roots first. All our product lines offer options with sizes and prices to match any budget and growing operation.

Our evergreen seedling Gro-Plug® line starts from seed. Most of the largest grafting nurseries start with our plugs, others are using Gro-Plugs to start their evergreen containers. We use them as the start for all our evergreen production.

The 2-year 18 cell potted liners provide exceptional performance, with a price point that adds to your margins. This is our number one selling liner and is an excellent size for potting into containers or lining out in the field.

Our #1 evergreen containers are grown in air pruned pots providing a superior root structure. Our customers are extremely happy with how these liners perform in the field and in upshift containers. We can utilize our LTL pallet shipping with ease.

The largest liner we grow is a #5 evergreen container. These are field-grown bare root plants, potted for one season, making them much different than a container grown liners. They are full trees from the bottom up. Being in the pot for only one season, they are perfect for taking off in the field.

One advantage that makes our plants exceptional is our growing environment. We are in NE Wisconsin along the shore of Lake Michigan. The cooling effect the lake gives us of low humidity, that has similar growing conditions to the pacific northwest. We are in a small town, with small town values. Our community is well known to tourists for beautiful shores on both sides of our county. We have been known as the Cape Cod of the Midwest. The nursery is one hour away from Green Bay Wisconsin, which recently won the title of best city to live in across the entire United States.

We also have an established H2A worker program. This ensures we have ample staff to get all our products to our customers when they need them. Most of our H2A staff return every season. They are knowledgeable about the nursery and our procedures. Our workers are as dedicated to the nursery as our year-round long-time staff.

If you or anyone you know wants to be a part of this legacy and to learn how valuable Evergreen Nursery is to the industry, please call us for more information on how this business could belong to you.

We did two short videos for the IPPS tour during COVID. The videos really show you what we do. It’s a quick glimpse into Evergreen Nursery. Watch them in order to capture everything.

https://youtu.be/yN_PnApqw70

Our website can be viewed at www.evergreennurseryco.com.

Check out the beautiful place we call home and thousands of tourists flock to all year long at www.sturgeonbay.net.

“Evergreen Nursery has supplied Bailey Nurseries Inc. with a variety of liners and finished container products for many years because of their dependability, quality, and service. They listen to understand our needs and have a flexible “can do” attitude toward producing, and delivering, custom product. We highly recommend using Evergreen Nursery Company Inc. as a hard-working supplier you can trust.”

“We have been using Evergreen Nursery for over twenty years. The quality of their liners has increased our production levels and we have held on to our profit margins over the years. Their prompt customer service and delivery notifications are some of the best in the business. I truly believe the well-trained staff comes from the top down.”

“We have enjoyed our partnership with Evergreen Nursery for a number of years now. All the liners we receive have been in great shape and have really worked out well.

We wanted to find a way to update our conifer line and everything they have shipped to us has really helped our product line and sales numbers.

The sales staff is very helpful and checks in on us numerous times a year to ensure everything is working the way we needed it to.

A wonderful company and staff, we are super grateful to have them as one of our suppliers.”

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