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've had a wander around the nursery to give you an idea of what is really standing out at the moment. In the flowering department the Australian Callistemon and Grevillea are still full of colour as are the Oleanders and the Gauras.
Amongst the Palms, Agaves, and Olives it's fairly straightforward to report, as always they are all looking great. But a special mention must go to the large Butia capitata which really do make a stunning specimen palm.

Just so you know - we are getting a load of mainly Palms and Olives, coming in this next week (mid June), And we have got some real show stoppers for you. We've got some large Mexican Blue Palms, Mediterranean Blue Palms (Blue is in) as well as some big fishtail palms. And as usual we have our usual assortment of formal and knarled olive trees. One of the other things I'm exicited about are some really ancient grape vines, oh and also the rather unusual Parajubea palm from Bolivia.

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.

If you have an olive tree you should be seeing some olives by now (Mid June). If you've ever wondered how to prepare them for eating, click here.

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.