Palmers Garden Centre or Palmers is a chain of
New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...
garden centres. It has 12 stores, including three in Auckland, selling a range of plants and gardening equipment.
The head office of Palmers is in
Rosedale, Auckland.
History
Starting from humble beginnings Palmers was originally a family business. The original site, in
Glen Eden, Auckland, was bought by A W Palmer for a
plant nursery
A nursery is a place where plants are propagated and grown to a desired size. Mostly the plants concerned are for gardening, forestry or conservation biology, rather than agriculture. They include retail nurseries, which sell to the general p ...
in 1912. The new business prospered and grew with New Zealand's first modern style
garden centre
A garden centre (Commonwealth English spelling; U.S. nursery or garden center) is a retail operation that sells plants and related products for the domestic garden as its primary business.
It is a development from the concept of the retail plant n ...
being built on the
Glen Eden site in 1958.
There were 20 Palmers stores in 2000, including eight in Auckland.
References
External links
Palmers Garden CentreOfficial website
Palmers PlanetOfficial website
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Home improvement companies of New Zealand
Garden centres
Retail companies established in 1912