Bee2Bee Business to Business

B2B

We are authentic wildflower growers and plant species marketers. You can tell where our focus is, we sell nothing else. Our diverse team is multi disciplinary, with experienced industry professionals whose career paths lead them to DBN, to make a positive contribution for nature.

This website shows plenty of B2B examples of what we do. There are very few businesses in Ireland like ours, with a Complete Vertical Supply Chain, Wild source to end-user and support like no other and for years after the event.. We supply via many channels, into many sectors, across different market sizes and customer types from gardeners to local authorities, from SME’s to blue chip multinationals and all our customers are very happy with our performance.  

This social artisan micro SME gives back what we take, re-invests all profits beyond livelihood, everyone in our industry knows us or has heard of us, and we rarely advertise, cos’ wildflowers when well grow, sell themselves. 

DBN trains, supports and advises a varied clientele, across many sectors and disciplines including; Landscape Architecture | Design Houses | Landscape Designers | Environmental Designers | Ecologists | Planners | and Gardeners and re-wilders. We are great with purchase managers and in justifying costs with accountants, because we specilise in saving resources, time and costs.

We supply The Irish Landscape Contractor Trade with very focused products, advice, training and attractive trade facilities.  We ‘Wholesale’ wildflower seed to other Irish seed houses, general garden or online nature stores and specialist retailers.  You sometimes can find our products in ‘bricks and morter’ retail stores or outlets.

You would be amazed at our B2B reputation. Once considered the most maverick business in Ireland, brash, world changers, we who wouldn’t take ‘no’ for an answer when it came to protecting plant species.  We brought our challenge all the way to Europe’s courts and won.  Exported seed to many countries and stopped to focus on the Irish market to saving plant species when no one, bar a very few, supported us, yet those that did helped change horticulture in this country for ever.

Trade difficulties :

Garden Centres : We ideally ask garden centres and retailers who stock our seeds not to stock them permanently in the store, as seeds go off in store conditions, instead have them for sale in Spring and again in Autumn, but not in stock. We have an app that allows the customer to explain their plot to garden centre staff and the app will return a recommendation, verified by one of our staff. Just ask by email, we don’ advertise the app.

DBN tended not to supply garden centres with our flora as the high price justified by the service a garden centre provides, could never square up to the poor and often ill-advice handed out in garden centres and superstores regarding wildflowers. So true to our policy of getting wildflowers to grow, not just selling them, we resisted selling into garden centres for 30 years.  Another reason is, we hate to loose control of our product, we specilise in the freshness of our seeds, to retain vigour, seeds sitting all year on a shelf does not make for a great purchase, 25% reduction in viability per year.