Plant Supply for Garden Designers

We didn't intend to become the biggest plant sourcing operation in the UK, it happened by accident. To our surprise, the service that we offered to amateur gardeners was one that was very attractive to the professionals. It seems that no one else can offer such a large range of varieties and very few can deliver them all at once, on a specified date. So, if you want 30, sixty year old pollarded limes, no problem; 1000 Phyllostachys nigra: we'll get them, 250,000 herbaceous perennials- easy, we'll bring them on to the nursery and deliver them when you want.

For large projects we'll even grow plants to order. If there are varieties that you know you'll always use in your schemes but have difficulty getting or can't get at the right size, then we'll grow them specially for you.

Wholesale Team

Mark Straver

mark.straver@crocus.co.uk

Tel: 01344 629608 Mob: 07715 770530 Fax: 01344 629600

Like his father and grandfather before him, Mark Straver has been a plantsman all his life. Before joining us, Mark spent 14 years running his own nursery with his brother Robert. He has now teamed up with us at crocus, and its largely thanks to his contacts that we have been able to establish such good links with the best growers in the UK and Europe.

Sarah Robinson

sarah.robinson@crocus.co.uk

Tel: 01344 629614 Mob: 07525 701270 Fax: 01344 629600

Sarah joined Crocus in 2003 to work in customer services. However, it wasn’t long before her love of growing things in her allotment and on her windowsill at work made her crave plants more than people. By 2007 she had to be transferred to the wholesale team.

Katy Simpson

katy.simpson@crocus.co.uk

Tel: 01344 629621 Fax: 01344 629600

Katy used to work for a Learjet company and joined in 2010 on the assumption that her previous client experience might be useful dealing with Garden Designers. She now handles all of our Wholesale administration. Having swapped the vapour trail for the paper trail, she runs a very tight ship.

A few designers we work with

Its not every day you get to work with such talent, but over the last ten years we’ve worked with some of the most exciting designers around – both at Chelsea and on other big planting schemes. For large projects we’ll even grow plants to order. If there are varieties that you know that you’ll always use in your schemes but have difficulty getting, or cant get at the right size, then we’ll grow them specially for you.

Tom Stuart-Smith

'For someone like me, it's very important to know that the plants will be good quality and exactly as specified without annoying substitutions or omissions. I have now used Crocus for 24 jobs since Chelsea, ordering a total of 129,195 plants across 1,102 species.'

Jinny Blom

'I like the fact that I can order a few herbaceous things together with say, three, six metre, multi-stemmed Betulas and have the whole lot arrive together.'