Useful and Recommended Links

Advice and Information

Met Office: Microclimates: Everything you need to know about microclimates.
The Royal Horticultural Society (R.H.S.): The RHS is the world’s leading horticultural organisation. Their website is full of useful information and advice. A must for all gardeners.
Tree Shapers: Creative tree surgery taken to its logical conclusion. Brilliant stuff - essential viewing.

Garden Design

Avant Gardener: Avant Gardener designs, builds and maintains landscapes.
Buckley Design: Contemporary garden design. From private gardens and rooftops to corporate projects.
Cleve West Landscape Design: Chelsea 2006 Gold Medal Winner, Cleve West has built a reputation for innovative garden landscapes.
Lewis Pol: A local landscape company that has a close associations with Architectural Plants Ltd.
Manuka Design: Manuka specialise in the design, build and maintenance of your garden (Rachel, the original instigator is another member of the AP alumni).

Garden Products

Gaze Burvill: Quality outdoor furniture using oak and marine grade stainless steel.
Les Jardins du Roi Soleil: Château de Versailles orange tree boxes made of cast iron and solid oak. These boxes are extremely strong and can be planted with palms, laurels, coniferous trees etc.
Niwaki: We supply some of these products at the same price but you must acquaint yourself with the remarkable Mr Hobson anyway (another member of the AP alumni).
Pots and Pithoi: A marvellous place selling enormous pots, urns and diverse vessels from Crete.
Room in the Garden: A wide range of plant supports, arches, gazebos and furniture, hand crafted in England using traditional methods and quality materials.
Whichford Pottery: The most successful producer of high quality terracotta pots in the country. We sell a range of their 'orange' pots (sharply tapered with heavy lip) and 'basket' pots (crisscross pattern, only slightly tapered) plus glazed saucers for use in conservatories.

Places to Visit

Borde Hill: A stunning and botanically rich garden, set within over 150 acres of parkland. Located close to Haywards Heath, West Sussex.
Denmans Garden: A great garden full of ideas to take home. Plus a plant centre with over 1500 varieties of rare and unusual plants for sale.
Leonardslee Gardens: One of England's most spectacular gardens, famous for rhododendrons, azaleas and a wonderful natural woodland setting.
Royal Botanic Gardens: Kew and Wakehurst: Not only a fabulous collection of trees, shrubs and plants but also a wonderful day out. Wakehurst is only 20 minutes from us, so why not pop along there after you've visited us!
Tresco: The Abbey Garden in Tresco, Scilly Isles, is a perennial Kew without the glass, hosting 20,000 exotic plants.

Non Gardening Sites

Indian Ocean Rowing Race 2009: Two friends, one boat and 3780 miles accross the Indian ocean, starting on the 13th April 2009. One of them is Guy Watts another member of the AP alumni. Needless to say, Architectural Plants is one of there main sponsors. Good Luck men!
Matthew Burt: Everyone loves the teak woodwork in the cafe at the Horsham nursery. See what else he does.
Molecular Expressions: Fabulous. Soar through space starting at 10 million light years away from the Milky Way down through to a single proton in Florida in decreasing orders of magnitude.
Paul Cox: All the many lovely illustrations on our website, in our catalogue and seen around the nurseries are by the immensely talented Mr. Cox.
The Linen Shop: This is a fantastic place for woven fabrics, which can be hand made into curtains, blinds and cushions amoung many other items.

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