Greenwood Plants UK

Greenwood Plants UK Sustainable landscape supply nursery, specialising in plant supply for new build developments

Producing around six million plants a year, Greenwood operates seven nursery sites across the UK, with 100 acres of production capacity, and employs more than 100 people

Explore the Climadapt range! 🌱Next up: Agave URBAFLORA® ‘Hale and Hardy’ 🌵This robust, evergreen agave has been speciall...
18/06/2026

Explore the Climadapt range! 🌱

Next up: Agave URBAFLORA® ‘Hale and Hardy’ 🌵

This robust, evergreen agave has been specially selected to perform in challenging urban conditions, combining drought and heat tolerance with surprising cold hardiness, making it suitable for the UK climate. ✅

With its striking blue grey rosette form, it brings strong architectural interest while delivering practical benefits in low input planting schemes ⬇️

🌵 Architectural focal point for modern landscapes
🌡️ Tolerates heat, drought, and cold conditions
💧 Efficient water use and reduced irrigation needs
🌱 Thrives in poor, shallow, free draining soils
🟢 Low maintenance and long lasting structure
🌫️ Helps improve air quality and capture particulates

💻 Read more about Agave URBAFLORA® ‘Hale and Hardy’ below:
https://loom.ly/kXx1AcQ

In 1984, patients with a hospital window facing a small group of trees went home a day earlier than those facing a brick...
16/06/2026

In 1984, patients with a hospital window facing a small group of trees went home a day earlier than those facing a brick wall. 🌳 That study by Roger Ulrich set off four decades of research into how plants affect the way we feel, work and recover.

Our new article gathers the evidence, from the office studies on concentration and productivity 📈 to the two hours a week in nature now used as a public-health rule of thumb, and looks at the plants that bring movement, scent and seasonal change into a planted space. 🐝🌸

Read the full piece https://loom.ly/McQVB5Y

Shade is one of the more common conditions in modern landscaping, and one of the trickier to plant well 🌿North-facing wa...
11/06/2026

Shade is one of the more common conditions in modern landscaping, and one of the trickier to plant well 🌿

North-facing walls, interior courtyards, beds under retained tree canopy.
Our latest planting scheme has been designed for exactly those conditions. Structural evergreens, ferns and Hosta for texture, and a dense groundcover layer including Disporopsis 'Shade Runner' from our forthcoming Climadapt range 🌱

The full scheme, with the 2m × 4m plan and the thirteen species, is on our website.

There's wheat growing in one of our fields at Pigeon House Farm right now 🌾 Not what you'd expect to see at a tree nurse...
10/06/2026

There's wheat growing in one of our fields at Pigeon House Farm right now 🌾 Not what you'd expect to see at a tree nursery.

Field-grown trees spend years in the same ground, and over time that draws structure and fertility out of the soil. So between tree rotations we sow wheat, and then leave the field fallow for a year, letting the soil recover naturally 🌱

It's straightforward agronomy, the same logic farmers have used for centuries 🌍 Soil health doesn't show up in the finished tree, but it shows up in the next twenty years of growth on that ground 🌳

What's looking good in our nurseries this month 🌿🌼 Achillea millefolium: native yarrow with flat flower heads loved by h...
09/06/2026

What's looking good in our nurseries this month 🌿

🌼 Achillea millefolium: native yarrow with flat flower heads loved by hoverflies and bees; drought-tolerant once established
🍊 Choisya ternata 'Aztec Pearl': fine glossy foliage and fragrant white spring flowers; compact evergreen shrub for borders or low hedging
🌸 Cistus × pulverulentus 'Sunset': magenta-pink rock rose for full sun and free-draining ground
🖤 Heuchera 'Timeless Night': near-black foliage with coral-pink flower spikes; lifts shaded planting
💛 Spiraea japonica 'Golden Princess': bright gold foliage and pink summer flowers
💜 Vinca major 'Maculata': variegated evergreen ground cover with periwinkle-blue flowers

Get in touch with the G Team to order any of these from our current stock.

Today is World Environment Day 🌍A useful moment to think about what environmental practice actually looks like at the nu...
05/06/2026

Today is World Environment Day 🌍

A useful moment to think about what environmental practice actually looks like at the nursery end of a project.

For us, it shows up in the small, repeated choices that add up across a year of orders. Our G Cycle scheme, where pallets and crates come back to be cleaned and re-used multiple times before they're recycled ♻️

Growing 100% peat-free across the range, and encouraging our suppliers to do the same 🌱 Cutting back on chemical pesticides and fertilisers in favour of organic and biological alternatives that support healthier ecosystems 🌿 The community planting work and the native, nectar-rich stock we build up so pollinators have somewhere to land when a scheme goes in 🐝

None of it is dramatic. Just the daily, operational work that makes the difference 💚

There's a stretch in May and early June where many planting schemes start to lose their footing. The early bulbs and woo...
02/06/2026

There's a stretch in May and early June where many planting schemes start to lose their footing. The early bulbs and woodland subjects are receding, and the summer display hasn't quite caught up. 🥀

This is where late spring perennials matter most. They hold the sunny borders together, carry the shaded ground after the hellebores have gone over, and extend the season where soil stays moist. None are showy on their own, but together they keep a scheme reading as continuous rather than transitional.

The temptation in design is to plan around peak moments. The harder question, we think, is what the planting is doing in the weeks between them. 🌸

We've written up the perennials we'd recommend for this stretch on the blog, and how to use them across sun, shade and moisture-retentive ground. Full blog on our website https://loom.ly/WBauAPI

Curious how others handle the bridge period.

Five years of plant donations, and our Greenwood Community scheme is still finding new projects to support. Since we sta...
28/05/2026

Five years of plant donations, and our Greenwood Community scheme is still finding new projects to support.

Since we started, we've donated plants to more than 100 non-profit and community-backed projects across Sussex and beyond. This year alone, we've already made twelve donations to schools and charities, both old and new to the scheme, with more already in the pipeline. 🌱

Read about our most recent projects in our latest Greenwood Community update:
https://loom.ly/RLv9NIM

Meet the G Team - Veronika Kubankova ⭐Veronika has been with Greenwood for an incredible 10 years, and works in our tran...
27/05/2026

Meet the G Team - Veronika Kubankova ⭐

Veronika has been with Greenwood for an incredible 10 years, and works in our transport team as an Operations Support Assistant. 🪴🚛

Her day to day role includes helping to co-ordinate our transport fleet, ensuring our orders are packed and ready to go, and making sure that Greenwood is delivering an effortless experience to our clients. ✅

Fun Fact - Veronika speaks THREE languages! We're incredibly luck to have her in the G Team 💚

A new £3m research centre dedicated to plant health and environmental horticulture is on the way, jointly backed by Defr...
26/05/2026

A new £3m research centre dedicated to plant health and environmental horticulture is on the way, jointly backed by Defra and the RHS 🌿

Plant diseases have already reshaped the UK landscape in recent decades. Ash Dieback alone is changing tree canopies across the country 🌳, with other threats like Xylella and OPM putting pressure on what comes next 🦠 For too long, research in this area has been under-resourced.

For us as a nursery, the centre is a welcome signal. The quiet, day-to-day work of biosecurity, sanitation and plant passports that we do as a Plant Healthy certified business is finally being matched by serious investment in the science behind it 🌱

Healthy plants start long before they get into the ground 💚

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Fresh Acre Nurseries
Arundel
BN180AS

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