Nick Hutchinson

Nick has been working in horticulture since 1989, when he and his father ran Oakwood Flower Wholesalers in England. Nick and his father started out buying flowers from a local wholesaler, before importing flowers from the Channel Islands and then Kenya. Nick has held various roles across the globe including Winchester Growers, the Dutch Flower Group in Holland, one of the biggest flower companies in the world, Butters Group, Ceder Hill group and now as the General Manager for Fernland in Queensland. Nick is committed to building stronger relationships with the state associations and to improve shipping times and costs for those businesses importing products into the country. As a self-described horticultural all-rounder Nick has visited all corners of the globe from Holland to Kenya to Ecuador seeking or selling cut flowers and plants.