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Brexit and peat ban on the agenda when Sir John Hayes visited Donington’s Plant365




Brexit and the forthcoming ban on peat products were discussed when Sir John Hayes visited a Donington plant nursery.

The South Holland and the Deepings MP took the opportunity to attend Plant365’s open day.

The firm’s UK sales manager, Leigh Boekestyn, said: “Sir John accepted our invitation to come and look around our nursery and to see how a local company expanded and thrived during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Plants 365 UK sales manager Leigh Boekestyn with MP Sir John Hayes
Plants 365 UK sales manager Leigh Boekestyn with MP Sir John Hayes

“He spent about 90 minutes discussing the local area being one of the largest horticultural areas and, being local, he could empathise with the challenges Plants365 faces going forward.

“It’s good to know we have someone held in such high regard in government on our side within the industry.”

Plants365 was established in 2017 and has about 15 staff.

It supplies bare root and potted fruits to national retailers, garden centres and online delivery companies throughout the UK, as well as more than 250,000 blueberry plants to continental Europe annually.



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