The Specialist Buyers Guide for Professionals in The Landscape Industry
Boningale Nurseries is one of the leading suppliers of hardy nursery stock to the British landscaping industry. With more than 50 years’ experience in the sector, Boningale Nurseries pride ourselves on providing a high quality and reliable service to a wide range of commercial and domestic clients.
Our customers include landscaping contractors, local authorities, grounds maintenance contractors, landscape architects and designers, construction companies, and nurseries.
Nicholsons was founded in 1979 and is a well-established family plant nursery renowned for quality plants and service.
Situated in the village of North Aston is our 22 acre Oxfordshire nursery. Nicholsons grow over 55000 trees, hedging, screening plants and garden plants. We also have a network of specialist growers who we procure from to offer the full range. If any plant is not listed please ask us and we may be able to procure it for you.
Nicholsons has an experienced and highly qualified team of professional foresters who cover all aspects of woodland management including: project planning and design, fencing, planting, maintenance (weed control), thinning, felling and arboriculture. For more information regarding Nicholsons Forestry, please visit the dedicated Forestry website at www.nicholsonsforestry.com
Nicholsons have four garden designers/landscape architects who offer a professional and creative planning service. This is backed up by experienced and qualified teams who can undertake projects from stately home terraces to bespoke small private gardens.
We also offer a complete full maintenance service.
We will construct gardens for other designers and have built gardens designed by John Brookes and Tom Stuart-Smith among others. While much of our work is for private clients we also carry out commercial work where a high standard of finish is desired. For more information regarding Nicholsons Landscapes, please visit the dedicated website at www.nicholsonsgb.com.
Palmstead Nurseries, for over 50 years, have been producing quality nursery stock to meet the needs of the Landscape and Amenity industry.
Since our small beginnings in 1968; nestled deep within the North Downs, Palmstead Nurseries has grown to meet demand and is now situated on a single, highly efficient 53 hectare site in the heart of the Kent countryside. Annual production has increased to in excess of one million containers and two hundred thousand field grown trees.
Palmstead Nurseries stock a huge, diverse range of products to suit any purpose and we pride ourselves in our ability to provide you with premium quality plants at affordable prices.
Our experienced nursery team will always be pleased to deal with your enquiries, source all your plant needs and offer continually competitive quotes.
Viridis has been conceived to satisfy the domestic landscape market. Working with elite designers on projects we are dedicated to a premium plant sourcing service.
Our team of experts have established a national customer base of quality domestic landscape designers and landscape contractors.
This enables us to offer a quick and efficient service to customers across the UK.
By providing this superior and exclusive level of service, the team at Viridis are able to meet the expectations of discerning customers wanting the best quality and most unusual plant varieties – at a competitive price – for their bespoke garden designs.
Horticultural Influence
Alastair Beddall started his landscape contracting business in 1981, naming the company Practicality Brown, in favour of Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown, the famous 18th Century landscape designer. Capability Brown designed some of Britain’s most spectacular park landscapes at historic homes such as Blenheim, Burghley House and Hampton Court. His designs can still be seen today, nearly three centuries later.
Company Development
During the 1980s, Practicality Brown (incorporated in 1987) worked on long term contracts for the Forestry Commission and was one of the first companies to develop tree clearance without burning. Pioneering whole tree chipping in the UK on a commercial scale in 1985, Practicality Brown have extensive experience of mechanised vegetation clearance, introducing Ahwi Mulchers in 1999 and mechanised Tree Shears in 2002.
By 1989 the company was also supplying semi mature trees and forest products to the landscape trade. In the late 1990s, Practicality Brown where instrumental in developing the Elveden Instant Hedge™ with the Elveden Estate in East Anglia. Together, they identified a need for a substantial, mature hedge up to 6ft high and planted species to grow for at least a four years before being sold in an ongoing programme.
Practicality Brown Today
Practicality Brown Ltd is an innovative, class-leading company, with divisions operating in the Landscape and Forestry Sectors. The Practicality Brown Difference: