One of the less talked about yet significant issues across the greenlife industry is the lack of connection between those designing with plants and those growing the plants. Namely the designers and landscape architects that are scheduling plants, the landscapers procuring stock and the production nurseries who are responsible in growing the stock. EvergreenConnect assists in connecting stakeholders through the planting design process.
This is not the fault of any one party, it is just an issue that has arisen over time due to a number of competing priorities, which unfortunately means that sometimes determine plant availability is left until one of the final phases of projects. This results in poor outcomes for all stakeholders: designers and landscape architects visions are not completely realised due to species or pot size substitutions, landscapers are constantly needing to chase stock and offer these substitutions and production nurseries lack true data to make informed decisions about what species to grow, to what pot sizes and in what quantities.
At EvergreenConnect we see our role within the greenlife industry to assist in connecting stakeholders by providing a single platform to connect designers and landscape architects, landscapers and production nurseries.
Yes, you can use EvergreenConnect to source stock for a plant out the week before, however we see ourselves as being able to provide more a platform to build ample lead times across your projects to ensure the intended design is delivered in full.
The various tools we have that assist in connecting stakeholders are:
- The Landscape Project Tool assists designers and landscape architects and landscapers.
- If you are in the initial concept and working on plant palettes you can use this to simply check species availability.
- If you are undertaking detailed design and scheduling plants you can check both the species availability across pot sizes
- If you are tendering or quoting for a job, you can send your plant schedules to production nurseries in order to obtain a quote
- Our integration with Vectorworks allows users to check plant availability live within your Vectorworks project when you are working on your planting plans.
- Production nurseries using our sales management functionality can receive quote requests directly into the platform, check availability and lead times and respond directly back to the user, without having to manually enter any data.
As part of the planting design process, whether you are designers and landscape architects, landscapers or production nurseries EvergreenConnect is with you every step of the way by connecting stakeholders across the greenlife industry.