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Partners in growth
At our Horncastle nursery, we cultivate a wide variety of ornamental container plants, including ornamental shrubs and trees, larger specimen plants, herbaceous and perennial varieties, bamboos, grasses, ferns, climbing plants and conifers. Additionally, we offer contract growing services for various plants tailored to our customers’ requirements.
Each contract can be customised to manage factors such as cost and timing, as well as the materials used in the production process. This ensures we meet your needs, whether you prefer peat-free compost, biodegradable pots or plants with specific, traceable provenance.
Landscapers
At Crowders Nurseries, we provide our clients with a comprehensive landscape package that includes everything from trees and hedging to perennials and shrubs, along with essential items such as tree and plant protection. With our one-stop-shop approach, we streamline your entire order into a single delivery, ensuring it arrives on-site precisely when you need it.
See our stock first-hand. We can arrange nursery inspections and visits, giving you the opportunity to see that our stock is being cultivated to meet your exact specifications for added peace of mind.
Enquire todayArchitects
We have built our reputation by bringing our customers’ visions to life, providing the precise planting materials required to transform designs into reality.
Over the years, we have forged strong partnerships with architects, establishing ourselves as a reliable plant supplier that can always be depended upon to deliver the materials necessary to realise the client’s vision. Regardless of how specific or demanding your needs may be, we will support you from the beginning, ensuring you receive exactly what you require. Additionally, our extensive industry experience enables us to offer guidance on the most suitable plants for your project.
Enquire todayPrivate and domestic
Whether you’re developing a private planting scheme or a luxurious residential garden, we are here to help you realise the vision set forth by your designer or architect.
Whether you’re developing a private planting scheme or a luxurious residential garden, we are here to help you realise the vision set forth by your designer or architect. As the proud recipient of a British Association of Landscape Industries (BALI) Award for Affiliate Exceptional Service and Trade Nursery of the Year for two years running and a trusted supplier for numerous award-winning landscaping projects, we can be relied upon to provide exceptional planting materials for your endeavour.
Enquire todayPublic sector
We have supplied plants to numerous public sector projects over the years, including roads, railways and the London Olympic Park.
As the supplier of plants to HS2, The Mersey Gateway, Crossrail and the London 2012 Olympics, we have established a proven track record as a leading wholesale nursery for government projects at a local and national level.
Enquire todayWhy choose Crowders Nurseries?
We operate an efficient sales office that ensures rapid quote responses for all our customers. Our skilled estimating team provides a reply to every quote request within 48 hours, if not sooner. This means you will swiftly receive our competitive pricing for our exclusive full package approach. Just send us your planting list and we’ll take care of everything else.
With years of experience, we have developed robust growing facilities and an extensive network of industry connections, enabling us to provide an unmatched variety of high-quality planting materials, all supported by our exceptional customer service. This means that when you place an order, we can supply exactly what you need and when you need it.
At Crowders Nurseries, we cultivate a vast array of plants across our three nurseries, with more than two-thirds of our inventory sourced from our own cuttings and seeds. However, if your project demands a variety that we do not grow, we maintain a broad network of reliable nurseries within our supply chain, with whom we have established strong business relationships. We oversee the entire process through our quality management and biosecurity protocols, guaranteeing the highest quality planting materials are consistently delivered.
For projects that require a mature planting scheme from the start, we provide an extensive variety of instant impact materials, such as mature trees and ornamental herbaceous plants. Additionally, we offer a diverse selection of instant hedging, including certified UK-sourced and -grown options, perfect for creating an immediate natural privacy screen in residential projects.
Get a quote or arrange a nursery visitWe have established supply chains and growing facilities, allowing us to offer a diverse selection of planting materials at competitive prices. This includes rare varieties, large multi-stem trees and eye-catching topiary to create an immediate impact. Our experience as a plant supplier spans a wide range of projects.
As a UK-based business, we champion British-sourced and -grown nursery stock with a fully traceable provenance. Thanks to our skilled and highly experienced team, we’re also able to grow from our own cuttings and seed, allowing us to retain complete control of every aspect of production.
We understand what it takes to supply large-scale government infrastructure projects and have successfully completed numerous PQQs and ITTs, most notably for HS2 – Europe’s largest infrastructure project. In addition, we have established quality management frameworks in place to highlight our commitment to consistently deliver outstanding service and planting material. We also take a rigorous approach to equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI), with our full EDI and modern slavery policies conveyed from staff to customers and our entire supply chain.
Expert guidance and premium plants
Whatever your planting or project requirements, we can help you to create beautiful spaces.
Speak to a plant expertHave a specific requirement for seed source or provenance?
We have the knowledge and experience to meet your needs. We work closely with organisations such as the Woodland Trust to grow seeds collected from specific sites into trees with a fully traceable provenance and can offer this same service to any of our customers who require planting material grown from a particular seed stock.
As part of the contract to supply 7 million trees and shrubs for HS2, we starred in the following supplier case study video (produced by HS2 Ltd).
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