{"id":355,"date":"2021-01-26T15:35:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T15:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/?page_id=355"},"modified":"2024-09-18T13:42:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T13:42:26","slug":"the-air-pot-team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/contact\/the-air-pot-team\/","title":{"rendered":"The Air-Pot Team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Jamie Single<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Australian co-founder has now lived in Scotland for more than half his life and calls both Australia and Scotland home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He studied at Ryde School of Horticulture in Sydney and for one year at RBG Kew. His background is in landscape design, and when he came to live in the UK in 1987, he introduced the Australian \u2018Root Control Systems\u2019 (as they were then known) to UK and Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With his wife and Co-Director, Suzie, he founded Caledonian Tree Company in 1990, initially selling imported products from Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UK manufacture started in 1996 and with it the ability to change and improve the product. He is always looking for ways to make the product even better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Suzie Single<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A native of Scotland, she was the original motivation for Jamie\u2019s move to the northern hemisphere. Together they set up the company in 1990<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the early days, Suzie initiated the trials of the system and got the ball rolling, while Jamie continued to be a landscaper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowadays, she is mainly office based, and generally keeps a supervisory eye on all the menfolk!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Georgie Single<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Daughter of Jamie & Suzie and the next generation of The Caledonian Tree Company, Georgie is based in London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having lived in Australia for 4 years after University, Georgie returned to the UK and has been full time with the Air-Pot team since 2021.  She can be found travelling around The UK (and beyond) visiting customers or at Kew Gardens, where she volunteers in The Arboretum Nursery 1 day a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bas Van Dijk<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

As a kid Bas worked on a neighbour\u2019s Rose nursery and later worked on other nurseries with a range of different plant species.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He now has his own company providing technical advice to Dutch nurseries. He has worked with Air-Pot containers for fifteen years and is our go to man for horticultural advice. He deals with Nurseries in Holland and Germany as well as the Hydroponic business throughout Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When not working he loves to go on challenging mountain walks and recently trekked to Everest base camp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rutger Hornikx<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Rutger also grew up on Nurseries and since University has worked internationally for compost and fertiliser companies, and from 2004 at Telermaat, the first distributor of Air-Pot containers in Holland. It was here that he began advising on the use of the Air-Pot system and was involved in the development of the Air-Pot U.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is now an Air-Pot consultant and deals with nurseries in Northern Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chris Irving<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Chris hails from the American NW. And his spirit couldn\u2019t be more representative of Oregon the state he calls home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before he started a family he was potting trees at the local Garden Centre. Then while raising his kids, he clawed his way into wholesale growing\u2026.dragging them into the fields to help. He then found long term success as production Manager at J Frank Schmidt & Son and sales manager at Carlton Plants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is our Air-Pot representative for nursery growers throughout the USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Karl and Charne Van Vuuren<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Karl and Charn\u00e9 represent Air-Pot in Southern Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Karl grew up on a citrus farm in Zebediela, Limpopo province, and farming is still running deep in his veins. After school his passion for International trade led him to study marketing at University of Pretoria. Air-Pot has taken Karl back to his roots (no pun intended) and merged his love for farming and trade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charn\u00e9 owes her love for plants to parents that could constantly be found working and playing in the garden, although Charn\u00e9 was mostly found up in the trees. After realising that dissecting flowers for fun is not a common hobby, she studied Botany and Microbiology at the University of South Africa and graduated with a BSc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Joe Black<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Joe Black our factory manager has been with CTC for over 20 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After studying Mechanical Engineering at Edinburgh University he joined Air-Pot\u00ae in 2003, initially learning the production process and working as assistant to the previous manager. He has been Production Manager since 2011 in which time he has been involved in and overseen many upgrades and improvements to the production process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joe likes to keep fit, lifting weights, as well as playing five a side football, snooker, and occasionally golf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Julyan Rawlings<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Before joining the Air-Pot\u00ae team in 2013 Julyan worked for 25 years as a freelance photographer and film maker. Over the years he regularly did bits and pieces of work for Suzie and Jamie and this evolved into regular employment. He is now responsible for marketing, social media websites and trade shows as well as photography and video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Away from work he can be found out on his bike, or in his shed making musical instruments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The A Team<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

And not forgetting the A team in the factory who work so hard to produce the World\u2019s best plant container.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jamie Single The Australian co-founder has now lived in Scotland for more than half his life and calls both Australia and Scotland home. He studied at Ryde School of Horticulture in Sydney and for one year at RBG Kew. His background is in landscape design, and when he came to live in the UK in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":20,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-355","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3222,"href":"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/355\/revisions\/3222"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}