We've grown woody plants since 1949

Delivering them mainly bareroot in Winter to gardeners, farmers, estate managers, and foresters who need hedging and trees.

You can order bareroot plants now for delivery from November 2025, and pay nothing until just before delivery.

During Spring and Summer, we deliver a select range of the following in pots, with a larger selection bareroot next Winter:

• Hedging & Sapling Trees
• Big Standard Trees
• Fruit Trees and Soft Fruit Bushes
• Rose Bushes

These plants are almost all delivered in pots year round anyway:

• Lavender
• Ornamental Shrubs
• Climbing Plants

Since the end of the last Millennium, we've worked with the best British and Dutch wholesale growers to get you great deals on Dahlia Tubers and Flower Bulbs.

We grow some popular annual Bedding Flowers and herbaceous Perennial Plants to pad out your borders and containers.

A selection of our very best plants are available gift wrapped for any occasion.

Mail Order Plants to Your Door

We are the only plant nursery we know where you can:

• Order trees & hedging in so many varieties & sizes, with some nice flowers & bulbs to go with them
• Book them months in advance of their planting seasons
• Pay nothing until they're sent
• Have them delivered almost anywhere on mainland Great Britain and Isle of Wight

Delivery costs are typically less than £10 for hedge plants, or around £25 if big trees are in the order.

Your basket will calculate the final amount after you enter your delivery address.

• You should smile to see your undamaged plants arrive. We use some protective packaging to get that right: it's almost all recycled. 
• We use 24-hour couriers when your order is ready to give you "garden centre fresh" plants.
• Note that 24-hour courier does not mean next day delivery after ordering! We batch orders to save you money, and can't offer express delivery like Amazon (we are working on it). 
• We're not a garden centre, you can't come for a look around or a coffee, only collect orders paid for online.
  All we, meaning Rodney, do every day is pack mail order plants securely, organised into batches to get the best value from the next day courier companies who deliver them. This keeps our costs, and our prices, low.

Now's the perfect time to get your Dahlia Tubers started in pots under shelter, ready for outdoor planting next month. 

Of course, you can plant Dahlias out before soil temperatures reach the ideal 14-15C, especially in sunny spots, with decent results. 
But potting the tubers up and avoiding the cold soil entirely allows so much more root growth and therefore flowering all Summer and Autumn. 

Best Value Dahlia Bundle: 'Cafe au Lait' Mix

As for tough little Sweet Pea and Cosmos jumbo plug plants, which are not as tender as Dahlias, they're really ready to go after the last period of chilly nights below 5C when there may or may not be frost, but either way plant growth stops. 

Best Value Summer Bedding Bundles: Cottage Garden Cosmos Mix, and our range of 4 Sweet Pea Mixes

Lavender delivery starts soon, when the warm weather lands in mid-Spring, late April. There is no point planting it out sooner into cold soil!
Lavender excels on poor, dry soils in the sun, where it can last for decades with strict pruning. 

Roses have all you need. You could prepare a garden with a hedge around a lawn, a couple of trees, then fill the borders with roses, maybe a couple of blue clematis weaved through, framed by a low hedge of Box or Lavender, and it would be a winner.

From dinky little mini patio varieties, to your standard issue bush types, up to long climbing roses for walls and absurdly vigorous ramblers for covering sheds, roses are always there for you.

Browse our other ornamental shrubs.

Climbing plants are the icing on the cake of practically any garden design, and the smaller the garden, the more precious the vertical space is, especially if you are stuck looking at the back of a fence, or have something else to hide!

The ultimate people-pleasers are Trachelospermums, known as Star Jasmines (no relation to regular Jasmine): evergreen, low maintenance, loads of flowers with superb fragrance, grows practically anywhere.  
If you need something similar but faster growing, the humble Sausage Vine is a great choice.

Like most climbers, Trachelospermums need support wires or a trellis. Self-clinging climbers include Hydrangea petiolaris, Ivy, and the absurdly vigorous Parthenocissus.

For a breathtaking flower display, climbing roses are the nation's favourite, closely followed by Clematis and Honeysuckle. 

Wisteria deserves special mention: not for every garden, this hulk has extraordinary flowers, arguably better than any other climber.
It needs space, strong supports, and trimming twice a year to flower well, but it's all worth it when you're sitting under your pergola with Wisteria blossom raining down around you.  

The Biggest Trees We Deliver Right Now: 10 - 15 Litre Pots

• Amelanchier 'Robin Hill' - When people ask us "what tree looks pretty for the longest season?", this is top of the list
• Beautiful bark birches - Ideal for most gardens with a bit of sun
• Weeping pear - Bushy, silvery-grey foliage. Grows well in dry lawns
• Golden Elm - Very upright habit, lovely bright colour
• Common Oak - Quercus robur, the famous native oak. Old oaks are huge, but they take centuries to get that size!
• Ginkgo biloba - The male clone makes a lovely specimen tree, and thrives in paved urban areas
• Tulip Tree - Liriodendron is a big beautiful beastie
• 'Lutescens' Whitebeam - Native, very tough, only grows to 15m
• 'Royal Burgundy' Cherry Blossom - Purple foliage and hot Autumn colour on an upright tree
• 'Cornubia' Evergreen Cotoneaster - Simple and effective, big bunches of cherry red berries
• 'Gorgeous' Crab Apple - One of the smaller varieties, suits any garden, long-lasting colourful fruit 

Growing your own is not minimalist or low maintenance, and in a cosy city garden, perhaps with little sun and busy kids, there might be no space for fruit trees.

But for everyone who has even thought about growing fruit, the answer is yes, do it, even if you're renting; ask your landlady first.

What are the best fruit trees for the UK? 

Our range of fruit trees includes well known supermarket varieties and old heritage favourites.
We try to give enough info to make a decision based on your area, but wherever you are, good soil and sun are ideal. 

The apple and the blackberry are the essential British fruits, along with the blackcurrant for jelly and the gooseberry for dessert.

Fruit needs sun to sweeten, so in the shade it's good to grow acidic, sour varieties for cooking and jam, like a Bramley or Grenadier cooking apple, or the Morello sour cherry. 

Our smallest fruit tree is Little Miss Figgy dwarf fig, perfect for a pot on a sunny patio, or for the front of a hot border.

• We no longer sell ready-made fan, espalier, or cordon fruit trees for training on wires: you can make your own by starting with a maiden tree.
• We no longer sell "Franken Family fruit trees" of multiple varieties grafted onto one tree; you can buy rootstocks to create your own.