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About Us
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Bradgate Nurseries Ltd was started in 1990 by Mark Earp who is Managing Director still today. We started growing plants and bedding plants on our nursery at Melbourne, soon adding ranges of herbaceous plants, shrubs and trees.
The garden centre at Staunton Harold, Leicestershire, was purchased the same year; it then sold just a small range of plants and goods, but has been extended into the extensive garden centre it is today over the last 19 years. It is set in the middle of a country estate with a National Trust church and lake, making a visit a great day out.
Kim Stretton has worked with Mark as plant area manager at Melbourne and Staunton Harold since the business started. She is now joined there by horticulturist Nick Higson.
Angela Murray has also been with Mark in the business since 1990 and is now shop manager, looking after all the non-plant side of the business, and is more than ably supported by her assistant shop manager Linda Geering.
Peach House Restaurant, within Staunton Harold Nurseries & Garden Centre, was extended in 2006 and is now able to seat 120 guests.
Bradley Nurseries in Staffordshire, was purchased in 2004. Horticulturists Dave Winfield and Peter Field joined our team as did Natalie Reynolds and Julie Morris to manage the shop side of the garden centre. A new Farm Shop and Pet Shop were opened at Bradley in 2007.
We have a wealth of experience and knowledge between us, so if you have any queries or questions please email them to us and we will try to help. Although please note we do let our specialist staff have days off, and amazingly even holidays, so please be patient with us while we get back to you with answers to some queries.
At both garden centres we have an extensive range of plants, of all types and sizes to suit most people's requirements, and a large range of general gardening goods, as well as superb Christmas displays that open early in October and Santa's Grotto. Please click on the links above to view more details of the garden centres.
Garden furniture has always been a speciality of the business. Mark has been travelling to Vietnam, China, Malaysia, India and Indonesia, since 1996 to source quality garden furniture which we buy direct to enable us to sell at very reasonable prices.
This does mean that not all plants or goods that are on GreatGardensOnline.com will be available at our garden centres at all times. Please call the garden centre that you wish to visit beforehand to check if any specific item is there before travelling. We wouldn't like you to have a wasted journey. Prices may also occasionally vary between the garden centres and GreatGardensOnline.com.
Mark decided to set up GreatGardensOnline.com in 2009, to respond to our customer's needs for easy access to our vast range of quality products. As we have visitors from all over the country to both of our garden centres, we hope the great customer service we offer will now be available through the GreatGardensOnline website to the whole country and beyond!!!!! Sharon, Sarah and Wendy will be dealing with all your enquiries at GreatGardensOnline and if they can't answer your query, they know a person who can!
Our objectives:
- To provide a great selection of plants and goods with excellent customer service, continually increasing the ranges available to fulfil all of our customers' gardening needs
- To provide a wealth of information on the plants and goods available to enable you to make a well informed choice, so you get the plants or goods you really need, when you need them.
- To provide excellent value for money.
With plants we sell mainly well established plants in 9cm square pots, or larger. These are ready to be planted out into the garden or into patio pots, and should not be confused with the cheaper small plant plugs available on many web sites.
With gardening goods we search the market for quality items that provide the best value for money. Often this is branded goods seen in many garden centres, but we also source many products direct from the manufacturer in this country and abroad, when we feel we can provide better value for money by doing so. These are sold under our own GreatGardensOnline.com brand; this often applies in our garden furniture ranges. - To run our business in an environmentally friendly manner, recycling as much as possible and keeping our carbon foot print to the minimum.