The Reigate Garden Centre Plant Department

Fruit

With a little bit of care and attention a fruit tree like apples, pears, cherries or plums will produce a good crop of fruit in any garden for many years.  Fruit is very easy to grow providing you do a little preperation.  Unless you choose a self fertile variety you will need to plant two different varieties of a particular plant to ensure a crop.  The overall size of the plant will be defined by the rootstock that it is grafted on to.  Our fully trained staff will be able to help you with this.  Should space be limited then minarettes may be the answer for you.  This is a range of naturally columnar trees that can be grown in a container on the patio.  Soft fruit like currants and gooseberries are very easy to grow and suitable for even the smallest garden, these to can be grown in containers positioned in a sunny spot.

Vegetables & Herbs

Everybody wants fresh vegetables and herbs these days and with some of the modern strains available it is very easy to produce a good selection in garden borders or containers.  We stock a full range of starter plants in the spring inculding all the popular types like cabbages and tomatoes to the more unusual like celeriac and globe artichoke.

Shrubs

These plants will form the backbone of any garden from the smallest postage stamp right up to the grand estate.  Coming in all shapes and sizes from completely flat ground cover plants like vinca through imposing large evergreens like eucryphias.  Evergreen plants have foliage all year round and can be mixed with deciduous plants which lose their leaves in winter often to reveal attractive bark or stems.  Many shrubs have a season of interest; this is often with colourful flowers.  Often they may also have attractive colourful foliage in golds. silvers, purples and red with others being variegated.  Some may have an autumn colouration which will give another season on interest.  Whatever you want from shruvs you are sure to find it.

Seasonal Bedding

These are the show offs in the garden.  A range of stunning plants usually for winter and spring or summer and autumn.  Masses and masses of brightly coloured blooms are produced to give a stunning display in the garden.  They can be grown in traditional beds or borders or they are perfectly happy in a wide range of containers.  These plants can either be raised from seed or purchased as young plants ready for planting directly into containers or borders.

Ornamental Trees

Not everyone has a garden large enough for that majestic English Oak, but most gardens will be able to accommodate an ornamental tree of some description.  They add another dimension to your garden with their height, colour, texture and form.  Some are grown for their attractive coloured bark, others for their vibrant flowers and many for their beautiful foliage.  Whatever you require we will be able to find a tree for your garden at Reigate.

Climbing Plants & Clematis

The perfect plant for adding height to any garden or patio.  Climbing plants will grow in a wide range of situations in both the open border and also a variety of containers.  Climbing plants require some form of support to help their twinning stems grow up.  This can be a simple trellis, support wires or one of the very attractive and decorative obelisks.  Many have brightly coloured flowers, others have vibrant autumn colouration and others are evergreen and interest all year round.  Here at Reigate Garden Centre we have a wide range to suit all gardens.

Conifers

A wonderfully versatile group of plants that have many uses within the garden.  They come in all shapes, sizes and colours from the deepest of greens to the brightest of golds.  The conifer is a very versatile plant with dwarf varieties that can be grown in containers to large specimens that are perfect for a large garden.  The majority of these plants are evergreen so will provide a backbone for your garden all year round.  Conifers also make good hedging and screening plants and can be very quick growing for that almost instant hedge.  What ever your requirement, we will have a conifer that will suit you.  If you are not sure just ask one of our expert staff.

Roses

What can we say about roses?  The quintessential English flower coming in a wide range of sizes and colours.  The summer months will be a riot of colour in your garden, with some varieties filling the air with the most delicious of fragrances.  We have varieties for containers, some for the traditional border and many for climbing up all sorts of structures.

Hedging Plants

Creating that dividing line between you and your neighbour or just partitioning your garden.  Hedging plants are just plants that are grown close together to form  a screen.  As a result of this many plants can be grown as a hedge or informal screen.  We also stock all the traditional hedging plants all year round and during the autumn and winter we have a range of field grown plants to provide an alternative.

Waterplants

Everybody likes the sight and sound of water in the garden.  So why should you not have plants to compliment these displays?  From late spring to autumn we stock a range of waterplants for growing both in and around the pond.  We have marginals and oxygenating plants for adding much needed oxygen to the water and also glorious water lilies for adding that focal feature to any pond.

Bulbs

When you use the term bulbs everybody thinks about daffodils and tulips in the springtime.  This term includes a wide range of plants that will have different growing and flowering times throughout the year.  We stock two distinct ranges of bulbs.  The first arrives in August and this is the daffodils, tulips and crocus etc which will flower in the springtime.  We also have a second range which includes dahlias, lilies and gladioli etc which will appear on the shop shelves in late January for flowering during the summer.

Houseplants

Why just garden outside?  Every home should be filled with plants!  We have plants suited for all rooms of the house including stately palms and figs to act as focal features and brightly coloured begonias and chrysanthemums to add a splash of colour to any room.  For something a little more exotic why not have an orchid, these are a lot easier to look after than people think!

Alpine & Rockery Plants

Although most of these plants have never seen a mountain let alone the alps.  This range of plants is ideally suited for a garden rockery or scree garden.  There are many varieties that are suitable for creating small gardens in troughs and containers.  The only thing that these plants demand is a well drained gritty soil as they hate getting their feet wet.  For containers we recommend a mixture of John Innes 2 compost mixed with some coarse grit.  Frequent visits are recommended to our alpine section as it changes throughout the year.

Herbaceous Perennials

There is nothing nicer than an English country garden full of herbaceous perennials.  Generally producing a riot of colour during the summer months.  They will also give your garden structure with tall architectural varieties to ground cover in the form of creeping plants. There are plants for all soils and situations.  They can also be grown in containers to move around your garden and on your patio.

Seeds

Everybody remembers growing something from seed as a child.  It is one of the most satisfying moments seeing your plant grow from a small seed into a beautiful flower or a delicious vegetable.  We stock the Suttons range of seed and have a good range of both flowers and vegetables for you to choose from.  We also have a comprehensive range of products to help you grow them successfully.