A £200,000 contract with Bluestone is helping a budding horticultural business become a blossoming success. Wizo Trees, run by Adrian Thorne, of Clarbeston Road, has been awarded a contract to source and supply Bluestone with almost quarter-of-a-million trees, shrubs and other plants. "It's a very significant boost to a fledgling business," says Adrian, a former veterinary practitioner who branched out into the tree business three years ago. "If Bluestone hadn't come along I would still be plotting my tree business, but the scale of this opportunity has been a great help in terms of the rapidity with which I've been able to develop the growing facilities. I've also had to take on casual labour to do the potting, which has provided work for quite a few local people." Adrian has been tasked with sourcing 97,000 native tree and shrub saplings, 14,000 ornamental shrubs, 115,000 bulbs, 5,000 aquatic plants and 1,600 semi-mature ornamental and native trees. And that's just for the first phase of the development - another £100,000 worth of plants is required for the second phase. But Adrian is undaunted by the scale of the task in hand. "It's a challenge, but a logistical challenge not a technical challenge," he says. "If you grow plants, it doesn't matter if you have 10 or 1,000, it's the same process. But the logistics - things like procurement, transport and watering - have been challenging. "Luckily, Bluestone had the foresight to engage me early so I could get my feelers out and get the procurement process going, and I'm lucky to be able to contract in the services of local farmers to help with the transport logistics." The trees around the lodges are all native species, including alder, aspen, oak, ash, lime, willows and birch. This part of the planting scheme mirrors the plants and trees already growing around the site, and was agreed between the landscape architects, Pembrokeshire County Council and Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority. The actual planting will be carried out by local farmers Martin Brodie and Philip Merriman, who farm at Yerbeston Mountain and Lower Coachlands, Sageston, respectively, and new job opportunities are likely to arise as a result. Said Martin: "We'll probably be going into partnership to form a company, and we'll be looking to employ at least four people long-term to help with the ongoing maintenance." The other member of the landscaping team is machine operator Paul Harden from Templeton, who'll be creating the bunds between the lodges.