Roger’s Gardens’ Chris Nichols wears many hats at the Orange County, Calif., store, including heading up the florist department and creating new business opportunities. One of the new business opportunities Nichols created a few years ago was a combo garden assembly line. A crew of employees’ full focus is to create hundreds of container gardens.
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A Designer Creates A Sample Combo Garden For An Employee To Copy
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The Next Step Is To Prep Plants For Combo Gardens
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The Plants Are Ready To Use In The Combo Gardens
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Add A Protective Liner To The Planter
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Employee Gives The Combo Garden The Finishing Touches
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A Freshly Completed Combo Garden
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Next, The Combo Gardens Are Placed In A Staging Area
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The Red Orchid Combo Garden On Display
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Cyclamen Combo Gardens
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Interior Combo Garden In Wire Containers
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White Orchid Combo Garden
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Small Succulent Combo Garden
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Succulent Hanging Basket
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Traditional Hanging Baskets
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Poinsettia Hanging Basket
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A Designer Creates A Sample Combo Garden For An Employee To Copy
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The Next Step Is To Prep Plants For Combo Gardens
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The Plants Are Ready To Use In The Combo Gardens
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Add A Protective Liner To The Planter
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Employee Gives The Combo Garden The Finishing Touches
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A Freshly Completed Combo Garden
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Next, The Combo Gardens Are Placed In A Staging Area
What makes this crew unique is that they work in an almost factory-like fashion, with each employee assigned to a task. One person preps the plants for the rest of the crew to assemble into gardens. Then a staff member will create combo garden after combo garden based on one design. That sample combo garden, however, is created by a skilled designer. Each station in this assembly area is assigned a different design, which is then placed in a staging area ready for the sales floor.
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Take a look at how the combo garden assembly line works, then see a number of finished designs on display on the sales floor.