Useful and Recommended Links

Advice and Information

* Jake Hobson - Niwaki BLOG: Jake has had a blog for coming up to 2 years, his is one of our favorites.
* Victoria's Backyard BLOG: A subtropical suburban oasis blog in Wandsworth.
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 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.
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

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.
Timothy Richards: If you have an interest in architecture (we do), then you'll love the miniature representations of some of the world's most beautiful buildings. You'll see some of his bookends demonstrating classical orders of architecture at both nurseries. Timothy Richards is a genius