Our nursery is situated in 3 acres of beautiful Kent/Sussex countryside.

We grow every single plant on site and the goal is to have as many varieties as possible growing outside all year round. We are always adding new varieties and trying to breed hardiness and robustness into any borderline plants, unfortuneatly this can result in a very high infant mortality rate. Our plants are forced to grow in very basic situations with the minimum of pandering to individual needs (in other words we use 3 types of growing medium, either in sun or part shade, and if it doesn't rain they all get tap water (if they're lucky)) and if they don't like it tough !. We try to make our plants tough first and pretty second. We are self taught and take the view that plants don't read books, so we try not to.

We recycle pots and welcome any feedback, free seeds and cuttings (of course).

Not forgeting our mobile warning and greeting system "Kasia" the collie shepherd cross, probably the friendliest dog you could meet, (very good at catching mice as well). That's her red tennis ball in the picture.

Dogs and children are more then welcome but come at their own risk (boredom in the case of kids).

Explanations for the plant list

USDA zone codes

Location guide

Spelling and descriptions

I'm sure this site is littered with spelling mistakes and grammatical errors, please do forgive me. As far as the descriptive texts go these are my opinions and observations and certainly in the case of sizes an arbitary judgement has to be made. In other words do you measure a plant to the height it reaches the day before it dies of old age, do you measure to the top of the flowers or the top of the leaves etc.

Recent customers of note

Apart from every one being of note of course, in particular, RHS Wisley, Chelsea Physic Gardens, Prague Botannical Gardens, Roger Phillips the author, Kew gardens, Eden Project, Dresden Botannical University, Londan Wetlands Association, Tom Hart Dyke bless him etc and apologies if I've missed anybody out