Brandon Carr
June 4th, 2021
Professor Rob
JN134
Botanicals
With Utah's snowy winters, it can be a little harder having pot plants outside. Botanicals is a 3rd generation passed down company that makes and sells special pots. These pots are made, flown, and shipped from Vietnam. Many people speculate that these pots come from Mexico, but since the kilns don't reach the 4,000 degrees fahrenheit needed to make these pots, they are made else where.
Dallas Warner, 3rd generation business employee and future owner. Dallas is standing by two pots both over 5 feet tall. These pots sell for over $1000 each.
March 22, 2021
Blue fountain pot just finished. The fountain is priced at $1,200. It took the team a little over a month to complete.
March 22, 2021
Botanicals makes about $1,300 a week in sales. On a typical weekend, they make around $10,000 in sales. Botanicals also gets some metal decorations from Mexico and plants from different parts of the U.S.
These pots are more modern, and made to be inside the house. They are extremely light weight and easy to move. They sell about 3 of these pots a week. They range from $80-$120.
March 22, 2021
Employees Dallas Warner and Emily help move a new modern pot into the office to have it payed for. Emily enjoys the job, and has a big interest in pots. In the back ground, there are patio decorations from Mexico.
March 29, 2021
The front of the store, Botanicals. The Botanicals building was once a home, and later after that a car shop before being purchased and turned into a pot shop. The building was purchased in 2005.
March 29, 2021
In the 1900's Baja was the original name of the store and it was located in Riverdale Utah. The original owner's of Baja used to make trips to Mexico, and just sell small plants and pots until later expanding. Baja later got relocated up north more to St. George Utah, because you got a head start at growing plants over there with shipments being sooner.
J.C Corado is 21 and has been working here for a week now. He's moving pots out of the back and moving them to the front for more people to see. I asked J.C if he likes his job he said, " Yes, I have a big obsession with all sorts of plants, succulents, and pots." J.C says that they all do a fair share of the heavy lifting, but he does the majority of it.
June 3, 2021
