WELCOME TO DESERT TO JUNGLE.COM

Our plant centre just outside Taunton is built around an old walled kitchen garden. It is actually quite a chilly frost pocket, and so our plants are often really put to the test during the winter. Then during the summer it’s a real hotspot, so we bask in the heat and warmth.

We try NOT to be a garden centre. We focus on plants….and just plants. Now in our fourth year of trading, we are becoming established as one of the UK’s leading specialist growers and suppliers of Exotic looking plants for UK gardens. We show at most of the larger RHS shows and during 2007 we were featured on the BBC2 series “A Passion for Plants” . We try to create a stimulating shopping experience and hope that you will see something new each time you come over to us. Our range is still expanding, with well over 700 different types of plant now on our stock list.

Specimen plants
We are not just exotics! We also now stock all kinds of large shrubs and other trees to give instant effect, or screen off the neighbours!

NEWS 2008!

WEb STore!

Click here to enter the desert to jungle web store. Only a select number of items are online at the moment. More will follow in the coming weeks.

Please note that you will be directed to the website of our other nursery Kelways Plants Limited, which handles the payment and order processing. We aim to ship all orders within 10 working days of receipt

Expansion

New for 2008 is our huge new tunnel exclusively for tree ferns and bamboos. Our former tree fern tunnel, erected in 2006 is now just for Cyatheas, and we have put up a 70x 30 house now for Dicksonia and also some of the more aristocratic bamboos.
We now have perhaps the widest range of Cyatheas available in the UK, and one of the largest sales areas of Dicksonia with specimens up to 4m trunks!!

Bamboos

Our bamboo collection continues to expand, and we are just finishing a brand new stockade area for specimen plants to be shown off to their best advantage. At last count we had over 80 species and cultivars, including Borinda and various Chusquea species which are real collectors items. We also have large good value specimen plants which are ideal for screening unsightly views and are lower maintenance than a conifer hedge!

Animals

Regular visitors will no doubt have been greeted with enthusiasm by “Elvis” the Border collie. For 2008, we introduce “Millie”, whom is now our newest member of the Desert to Jungle team! A little mad still. But that’s Springer spaniels for you!

Shows 2008

Please see separate link to our show schedule for 2008

Chelsea 2008

We are honoured and excited…and a little nervous to be supplying some of the worlds top designers for no less than 5 top gardens at Chelsea this year. Its all still a bit hush hush, so more details later.

Mail Order

We are hoping to have a new live web store up and running by the end of March. Keeping looking in!

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