Tis the season for Forest Produce

Bringing sparkle and scent as well as greenery to Christmas, Kerry company Forest Produce is shipping out tens of thousands of wreaths, table decorations, and bouquets of foliage for the holiday season.

Since the end of October, an army of 100 workers have been cutting, arranging, decorating, painting and packaging an array of foliage which is, for the most part, supplied to multiples in the UK. Managing director James Costello says that since it began adding sparkle, glitter, scent, and snow effects to the stems, demand has surged.

“Scent is one of the key things people want from flowers but it has been bred out because scented flowers wilt more quickly,” he says.