Gardens

Founded in 1989 to meet a growing demand for larger plants, TENDERCARE is now Britain's leading horticultural resource centre. Its nursery, covering more than 18 acres, is based at Denham, Uxbridge, where it specialises in providing mature and specimen trees and shrubs, all in larger than normal size, and a full consultancy, design and planting service. There are more than 100,000 mature and specimen trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants, from show quality perennials to 60-year-old yews and majestic conifers. Its unrivalled range of mature trees and plants make it the first choice of many leading garden designers and landscape architects, and many of the UK's finest public and private gardens are regular clients. TENDERCARE also supplies the majority of television gardening programmes, including Ground Force, Real Gardens, Charlie's Army, Better Gardens and Planted.

The nursery, established on 13 acres of land by Kevin and Pat Croucher in 1991, now extends to 33 acres of field and container production. Besides Pat and Kevin, there is a hard working group of skilled and qualified staff, several of whom have been with the business for over 10 years. A combination of plantsmanship and commercial growing skills results in the production of one of the broadest ranges of trees available in the UK. This range includes an extensive choice of broadleaf and coniferous amenity trees and hedging, plus hundreds of tree fruit varieties. Our trees are produced to a high quality, with emphasis on a sound root structure and a well formed crown, at a competitive price to appeal to both our wholesale and retail customers. Trees are both field and container grown, ranging in size from whip to heavy standard, including a range of multi-stemmed trees. All our container grown plants are grown in totally peat free compost.

Nursery on the Isle of Wight specialising in fruit trees and bushes.

During the 1920s Lord Wolmer decided to establish a fruit farm at Blackmoor Estate in Hampshire. He quickly decided that he would only plant trees worked on the stocks recommended by East Malling Research station. At the time, however, it was difficult to obtain trees of this description. He therefore established stoolbeds of these rootstock from which to work trees for his own orchards. This led to the establishment of a small-scale nursery. At first sales were confined to produce that was in excess of the planting programme on the farm, but the keen demand for fruit trees of the quality and at the prices he was able to offer led to the expansion of the nursery enterprise. For eighty years Blackmoor Nurseries has sourced its rootstocks and scion bud wood from material of the highest plant health status. We now provide a wide range of fruit trees, bushes and soft fruit to garden centres, commercial growers and to retail customers. Blackmoor Orchards grow apples, pears, plums and soft fruit for many of the high street multiple retail outlets on 250 acres of orchards.

Founded in 1879, McBean's remains one of the most famous names in orchid hybridization and the recipients of countless awards for cymbidium and odontoglossum breeding. McBean's are specialist orchid growers and take pride in honouring the long and distinguished history of our company which also incorporated the renowned Charlesworth odontoglossum.

We've been inspiring plant and garden lovers since 1851. Alongside our celebrated plant collections we offer containers, sculpture, furniture, cut flowers and gifts. Our award-winning garden design, landscaping and garden maintenance teams work throughout London, the UK and internationally.