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Village Nurseries Acquires Miramar Wholesale Nurseries07-24-13 | News

Village Nurseries Acquires Miramar Wholesale Nurseries

Miramar Wholesale Nurseries in San Diego is a 170-acre wholesale operation with a commercial landscape center and a team of horticulturists.

Village Nurseries Wholesale, a specialty grower for landscape professionals, announced the purchase of Miramar Wholesale Nurseries in San Diego, Calif. The acquisition is one of the largest in the nursery business in California in many years. Village Nurseries expects the purchase to add $11-12 million to its sales in 2014.

Miramar Wholesale Nurseries was founded in 1993 to serve landscape professionals in San Diego, Los Angeles, Orange, Imperial and Riverside counties. Its 200-acre site houses a 170-acre wholesale operation, a commercial landscape center and expert horticulturists.

The Miramar landscape center will be Village Nurseries' first super center, about twice the size of its other four California centers. The acquisition expands Village Nurseries' growing acreage by 24 percent, from 700 acres to 870 acres.

Apart from acquiring an excellent wholesale nursery in a great climate for growing plants, David House, CEO of Village Nurseries, sees the acquisition as timely. "[It will] meet the needs of a resurgent real estate market in which landscape architects and designers will be demanding more plantings, and the retail segment will be demanding greater variety for home gardens," he said.

As a specialty grower, Village Nurseries has forged partnerships with respected growers and breeders (Monrovia, Anthony Tesselaar International and Sunset Western Garden Collection) to offer a large variety of high-quality plantings.

House explains that one of Village Nurseries' key initiatives is to continuously offer new and superior plants to enable landscape contractors, designers and landscape architects to "rethink landscape," and create beautiful, enduring projects.

Village Nurseries, founded in 1976, has major wholesale sales offices in Orange and Sacramento, California, and more than 700 acres under cultivation in growing facilities located throughout Northern and Southern California. The nursery serves markets throughout the western United States, while maintaining four specialty landscape center locations to serve landscape professionals.