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Gardening Express
If you've not purchased from us before, you've just discovered a well-kept secret that gardeners in the know have been enjoying for years. We've built our business from a small concern into a fully-fledged wing of the UK's horticultural gardening army; supplying all types of people our plants. From TV shows and celebrities, garden designers and professional landscapers to keen amateur gardeners and people just brightening their surroundings at home, we are here to help. We are all about the plants here at Gardening Express - turning the yawning into lawning so to speak.
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Your one-stop resource for all things gardening! Whether you’re a green-fingered pro or just getting started, the Gardening Express Knowledge Hub is here to help you make the most of your garden. Packed with easy-to-follow articles, expert tips, and handy advice, we’ve got almost everything you need to know about planting, pruning, and keeping your garden in top shape. Explore our guides on plant care, discover the top garden design tips from industry experts, and find answers to your gardening questions.
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Our web site contains an amazing array of garden plants and flowers, perfect for your beds and borders, hanging baskets and patio containers. There’s Roses, Bamboos and Grasses too, not to mention hedging and screening plants, fruit trees such as apples, pears, cherry trees, plum and even fig. We also grow an extensive range of herbaceous hardy perennial plants, ferns, shrubs and climbers, Clematis, Hydrangea and Lavender Plants being some of the favourites. Don’t miss our Acers either, Japanese Maples are one of our specialities. Palms, Buxus Box Topiary, Bay Trees, Olives and Specimen plants can also be found here. All in all we grow thousands upon thousands of hardy plants right here on our Essex nursery that spans in excess of 14 acres – that’s a lot of plants!
Garden Plants, Shrubs, Trees, Patio Plants and more, they're all our thing. The cornerstones of our business are quality, service and value for money. We have our own nurseries growing plants but also work closely with other plants people from around the gardening world to offer you the very best new and exclusive plants, old favourites and exactly what's on trend right now. We've even been trusted to supply plants to designers and exhibitors at high profile RHS Flower Shows, BBC Gardeners World live, the Corporation of London, Celebrity Chefs, Stately homes and many more.
In recent years we've also branched out in to supplying a range of top quality premium professional grade Compost to ensure you get the most out of your new plants, as well as an ever expanding range of great value, quality garden tools and accessories to help you get the job done! For those with limited space or just a balcony we can offer a selection of superb pots and garden planters that will fill an urban courtyard, patio or terrace with movement and colour once filled. Plants of course being our main thing, we couldn't forget indoors too, our extensive range of house plants rivals any specialist, yet they're priced the Gardening Express way meaning you can afford to fill your home with fresh greenery even if you're on a tight budget.
Throughout the year, we're here to help you celebrate those special events and occasions with floral and garden themed gifts. We're trusted by thousands to supply their
Christmas Trees each year too, supplying the finest quality Nordmann Fir cut trees plus a full range of potted Christmas Trees such as the
Blue Spruce, along with a wide selection of other varieties. Christmas Lights and decorations are also available to help to get in that festive mood, and to make things easy, our range of Christmas Tree Stands are simplicity itself to help you display one of our wonderful Christmas Trees.