Passionate About Plants
Established 1945
More about us - the south west’s leading plug plant cash and carry
Based in East Devon we serve Devon, Cornwall, Dorset, Somerset, South Gloucester and West Wiltshire. Collect any day* or delivery in your area once a week.
Celebrating 65 years in Honiton we still work hard to exceed your expectations in all we do. We offer literally thousands of seasonal varieties, either from our own nursery or from our important “guest suppliers”.
We supply customers from wholesale nurseries, charities, amenity, gardening clubs and the private enthusiast throughout the south west region. Over the years we have tailored our offer to suit the smaller independent grower…check out our catalogue for the whole story.
As a long established CASH and CARRY we stock a vast range of plants and a selected range of linked sundries all available to collect throughout the season. Please check our opening times and call ahead to check stock levels (01404 42228) to avoid disappointment. We can source plants direct from our supply partners on a week after basis (subject to availability).
Our partners are…
Delamores our principal supplier always carrying good surpluses
Kernock Park Plants…the most innovative propagator in the country often carrying surplus
Whetman Pinks…the leading pinks propagator in the country.. sometimes offering surplus but early ordering advised.
XL Horticulture…offering potted herbs and hi tec tunnel covers, cut to any size.
Any plants bought through ourselves can be held here for collection or delivered under our trading terms.
Amongst the SPRING PLANTS we offer Basket Plants, Patio Plants, Carpet Bedding, Fuchsias (giant and traditional) Ivy Leafed Geranuim, Zonal Pelargoniums Herbs and Vegetables. We also produce millions of seed raised plug plants here in East Devon. This means we can sow special items to order.
In AUTUMN we offer Alpines, Perennials, Shrubs Climbers , Bulbs, Primroses, Polyanthus and Pansy plugs.
POT PLANTS
In SPRING and SUMMER we offer New Guinea Impatiens, Regal Pelargoniums, Senetti, Zonal Pelargoniums,
Hanging Baskets and Planters.
In AUTUMN and WINTER we offer Cyclamen, Mini Cyclamen Solanum Hyacinth,Primroses, Poinsettias and Hand Tied Wreaths.Call for prices and seasonal availability on our pot plant offer. Collect CASH and CARRY or delivered in Trolley quantities.
Jacksons save 300 tonnes of CO2 /year
We have often thought that growing plants under glass during an English winter can hardly be described as eco-friendly so with the price of oil “never again to go below $ 100 /barrel" we needed no better excuse to change our energy source. We have in the past used coke, oil and then coal to heat our crops. As all the relevant pieces were still in place it has been comparatively straightforward to move back to burning bio mass.
Although bio mass comes in many different forms, - it can be defined loosely as anything that grew recently - for practical reasons we chose to use wood pellet brought in from English producers in 25 ton lots . These pellets, containing up to 4500kw/ton for the technically minded, are carried from bunker to boiler by timed augers and on arrival in the boiler are burned in something akin to a blacksmith's forge.
Although the stimulus for change was in part financial, the main benefit is to the environmental footprint of the nursery. As wood absorbed carbon from the atmosphere so recently, its release does not affect the overall levels in the air. On the other hand, if we were still burning a fossil fuel our CO2 footprint would be equivalent to 200 “car years” or 150 average homes, some 300 tons per year. So although we aren’t going to save the world on our own, you at least know your plants are now “carbon neutral”.
For the second season we accept plug and carry trays and pots for recycling, so customers can bring them to us or our drivers can be asked to collect them from our nursery customers. Trays must be clean of compost and tied into neat stacks. Again a small measure but this resource can easily be reused, and we are very aware that it's our children’s world we are seeking to protect.
David R Jackson
Managing Director