Press Reviews

Country Living Magazine February 2010 (Paula McWaters)

If I started this nursery in a fit of pique, it was because I couldn't obtain a willow podocarp (Podocarpus salignus) – Angus White declares … full review

Gardens Monthly 2007 (Julie Hollobone)

The plant specialist company Architectural Plants of Sussex was recently announced as winner of the Horticulture Week and HTA Retail Outlet of the Year 2006. We went to visit them to find out why they deserved the title. … full review

Guardian Weekend 2006 (Lia Leendertz)

Chances are you will by now have heard of Architectural Plants, in Horsham, West Sussex, but designers of show gardens in particular never tire of its trick of producing huge beautifully grown specimens of bamboos, ferns, bananas and palms. … full review

Gardens Illustrated 2005

James Fraser's Review of our own Christine Shaw's book Architectural Plants.

For students of garden design in the UK it could be the most important reference book, up there with the RHS Encyclopedia and Graham Stuart Thomas. … full review

Wealden Times 2002 (Erica Farrow)

I do hope that when you read this article in March, the fierce wind and endless drizzle of February will have given way to some cheerful spring-like weather... My spirits were lifted when I visited a nursery in early February, where so many of the plants were looking as green and lush as they will look in mid-summer. … full review

Sunday Times 2001 (Diane Baistow)

Angus White, the founder of Architectural Plants, has a mission: to introduce exotic plants to this country that will survive the 'British winter.' He has been spectacularly successful, and the colonial-style office in his nursery in Nuthurst, Sussex is surrounded by the theatrical silhouettes of palms, giant ferns, spiky agaves, sculpted hollies and swaying bamboos. … full review

Observer Life 1998 (Monty Don)

Architectural Plants has a wide selection of spikes (and other things) at its two nurseries... the entertaining and idiosyncratic catalogue is geared towards the average gardener rather than the specialist plant-hunter. … full review

Gardener's World 1994 (Katherine Bradley-Hole)

Many of the nursery's plants are particularly well suited to town and city gardens. The strong, structured forms compliment the architecture of house walls and garden terraces, and plants with particularly striking foliage have the ability to make an impact in even the most confined spaces. …full review

Independent 1990 (Anna Pavord)

The first thing that needs to be said about Angus White is that he grows superb plants. His nursery is state of the art and his propagator, Peter Tindley, ran the Temperate Nursery at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, for 15 years. … full review