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About Us
 From a modest beginning to one of Queensland’s largest growers of speciality flowering plants - Forest Blooms Wholesale Nursery has won various awards including the prestigious Gold Medal at ABC gardening Australia live during their first year of exhibiting.
In 1999, Andrew & Sharon Cooper started out with just two 6 x 30 greenhouses on their Buderim property and grew Gerberas and Chrysanthemums. Before long, they decided to purchase 11 acres in the Hinterland near Mapleton because the environment was perfectly suited to their crops: good breeze, cool nights, and an abundance of water. A 1500 sqm greenhouse was constructed, and the Coopers expanded their line to include Cyclamen, Lavender, Rosemary, Roses, Geranium and Lisianthis.
As Andrew likes to say, “... like our plants, our business just grew from there!”
Today, the wholesale nursery with humble beginnings is now over 2 acres of greenhouses
all growing specialty flowering plants and trees. Forest Blooms is very conscious of the surrounding environment: they retain all runoff water to their own tailings dam. From there, the water travels through a reverse osmosis treatment plant and is recycled back through the nursery. Apart from their 4 starter beds, the nursery is watered by drip irrigation to minimise water usage. They use an organic, integrated pest management system to control various insects.
Many thousands of plants are propagated and produced by Forest Blooms each year and they are always on the look-out for new and exciting varieties to add to their existing plant nursery.  Testimonials...
The Team Behind The Nursery
 Plants rarely grow up to be healthy and beautiful by themselves! Our team of 3 qualified horticulturists tend to the propagation and growing of all nursery plants; and a back up team of 3 provide support in the preparation of flowering plants and trees for careful dispatch to our many customers selling gardening supplies, flowering plants and trees.
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