Propagation nursery, Kent, glasshouse nine

Everything here was cut from something older

We propagate from stock plants we've kept for twenty years. Nothing is imported, nothing is forced, and we only sell what has already rooted.

A plant that arrives dead was always going to. You just weren't told.

Why we won't ship an unrooted cutting

Updated Mondays

On the bench this week

When a row is empty it stays on the list, the next cuttings take between four and nine months to root, and we'd rather show you the wait than hide it.

Asplenium nidusBird's nest fern, 12cm18 ready£14

Philodendron gloriosumRooted cutting, 3 leaves6 ready£46

Anthurium warocqueanumQueen anthurium, 15cmrooting, March£120

Begonia pavoninaPeacock begonia, 9cm11 ready£28

Cyrtosperma johnstoniiGrown from our 1998 stock plantrooting, June£95

Glasshouse nine, 7am

Marden, Kent

How we grow

Three rules we don't break

Rows of stock plants on a long propagation bench

Cut, never bought in

Every plant on the bench came off a mother plant in this glasshouse. We know exactly how it was grown because we grew the thing it came from.

A rooted cutting in a glass jar, roots visible

Rooted before it's listed

A cutting with no roots is a gamble we're not passing to you. Nothing goes on the bench until it has held new growth for three weeks.

Gloved hands wrapping a root ball in wet sphagnum moss

Packed wet, shipped Monday

Sphagnum around the root ball, one heat pack from November to March, and we don't ship if the forecast is below 2°C.