Carl Bates Indigenous Plants

Carl Bates is the owner of Carl Bates Indigenous Plants, which supplies liners and small containerized native plants to wholesale and retail plant nurseries and sometimes landscape and restoration projects throughout Central and South Florida. Carl has learned to endure the cyclical ups and downs of the horticulture industry and supply very large projects from multiple sources. Hear what he has to say about what to grow and when to grow it, and why he still loves getting up every day to drive to the next nursery.