Welcome to Athelas Plants

Office Plants

I had an interesting visit up to London the other day supplying plants to a huge and plush office overlooking the Thames.
Well it was only when I had to engage my much maligned brain in to working out which plants to use, that I realised we had heaps of plants perfect for the job.

So if you have an office space or infact any indoor area that needs a little livening up, give us a call and we can see if we can help.

Our Testimonials

I've added a testimonials page to give you some idea of what our customers think of the plants they received from us. And as importantly the service they received from us.
Buying plants online offers great value but also the uncertainty of not seeing what you buying. So I thought the best way to alleviate some of that uncertainy is to show you what our customers thought of the plants that we sent them.

Looking about

You are most welcome to check out our exotic plants through our online shop, or by downloading our catalogue for 2008. Or even better, by paying us a visit at our plant nursery in East Sussex and seeing the plants first hand for yourself.

If you know what you're after you can always just go straight to the search page, and enter a plant name, or find it in the A-Z listing. Which ever way you do it, happy browsing!

Thoughts from the Nursery

I thought it might be useful to tell you what is looking outstanding at the moment in the nursery.
We've got a lot of Callistemon 'Perth Pink' starting to come into flower, lots of buds and lots of colour, all in all a very handsome looking plant.
All the palms are looking great but especially so Chamaerops humilis, good strong new growth and pristine foliage.

Well the spiky things have invaded!. We now stock a diverse and absolutely stunning range of Agaves and Yuccas. If you fancy something a little unusual these are well worth a look.

I should just mention the Olives (Olea europea). We've got some really ancient Olives in. I find, now this maybe just me, that they are completely contradictory in their appearance. What I mean is that they seem to be both ugly and beautiful at the same time. But they are fantastic, full of character and stateliness, and just really interesting to look at.

Help is at hand

It can be a little overwhelming trying to decide which exotic plant is for you. Deciding if a Yucca would suit better than a Cordyline, or if an Olive is happy in a shady spot, if that Trachycarpus is happy in a sea breeze. If your not sure give us a call or email us and we will be happy to advise you. We are trying to build a bit of an exotic plant knowledge base, so you may find some helpful information there.

Slow release fertiliser now available!

The information found for each product in our plant library quite often mentions slow release fertiliser with very low levels of phosphates. This really will be difficult to track down in the regular gardening centres as it just isn't appropriate for most plants in the UK.

Therefore we are now stocking the specially formulated slow release fertiliser that we use here at the nursery on the vast majority of our exotic plants from the southern hemisphere.

Our online shop sells an interesting and ever growing range of exotic plants,including varieties of Palms, Yuccas and other Agaves, Succulents, Cordylines, Grasses, Bamboo, Olive trees and a large range of shrubs from the southern hemisphere such as Callistemon, Grevillea, Leptospurmum. We also now have a very vigorous and colourful collection of 'Jungle' like plants such as Cannas, Hedychium, Alocasias and many more.
The great majority of these trees and plants have one very attractive property in that they are very low maintenance, giving maximum effect with minimum effort.