The varied range of fine plants offered at Marchants Nursery are virtually all propagated on site. Most are propagated from stock plants grown in the Gardens, a rare thing nowadays, hence the Marchants team know intimately both the provenance and growing preferences of all the plants sold on the Nursery.
Saturday 5th and Sun 6th Oct / 11am – 4pm: Autumn Plant Fair at Great Dixter, East Sussex. Visit the fabulous Great Dixter gardens for this small specialist plant fair which has become a date-to-save for plantsmen from near and far. Look out for Marchants Hardy Plants. Short talks by nurserymen will be given at their stalls over both days. Tickets are on sale on the gate on the day (no advance booking) and include garden entry.
To VIEW and/or PRINT our 2024 PLANT LIST – CLICK HERE
Marchants Plant List – updated June 2024. All Marchants plants are home-grown, so please note that it is NOT possible to have ALL plants listed ready early in the season.
Please note, prices may change according to the pot size. Plants are grown in various pot sizes to suit the plant and stage of growth, therefore throughout the season plants are sometimes potted on, and prices may change accordingly.
We are not able to offer Mail Order – we encourage customers to visit the Nursery, or to collect by arrangement. If you wish to check availability before visiting, do please email: marchantshardyplants@gmail.com
You will find expertise and advice aplenty when you visit this exciting Nursery. Marchants, founded almost 25 years ago, has over the years built a fantastic horticultural reputation. Having taken over the day-to-day management of the Nursery and Gardens from Graham Gough in 2022, Hannah Fox and the skilled Marchants team aim to enhance this reputation further by developing Marchants as a home of learning, skill-sharing and plant knowledge.
Too few places get to know the plants they sell. At Marchants almost everything is propagated from stock plants grown in the garden, hence the team knows intimately both the provenance and preferences of the many rare, unusual and familiar plants grown for the Nursery.
On your visit you may notice our taupe coloured recyclable pots (please feel free to return these to us – as long as they are clean, not broken and from Marchants, we will be happy to accept them).
We are now using peat-free compost. The transition has been challenging, but we continue to carefully monitor to ensure we continue to deliver the same level of quality that you have come to expect here at Marchants.
Knowing the difference between beneficial insects and pests is an essential part of horticulture, using one to combat the other, and this is exactly what we are doing by using nematodes to treat any pests we find on the Nursery. The live bacteria are kept in the fridge until the conditions are right to set them free among the plants (as long as we don’t confuse them with the porridge oats!).
“Summer 2022...”
“Hannah and Henry give renowned Dutch plantsman Piet Oudolf a tour of the Nursery, summer 2022...”
“Hannah with renowned Dutch plantsman Piet Oudolf on the Nursery, summer 2022...”
“Hannah gives a talk at Charleston Festival of the Garden, summer 2022...”
“Our dear late Tansy, reviewing the Nursery...”
“Hannah, Graham and Lucy (on a sunny day, summer 2020)...”
“So at Marchants, the nursery drifts almost imperceptibly into Gough's rich, dramatic sweeps of herbaceous planting: sanguisorbas, daylilies, masses of grasses, achilleas, dark agapanthus etc.”
Anna Pavord, The Independent Magazine
