The best plants, for the best projects.
Design-led planting and specimen trees for exceptional landscape projects.
Trusted by landscape architects, contractors, garden designers and property developers across the UK.
3rd generation growers of architectural planting for prime residential schemes.
From an empty field in 1971 to over 13 acres of mature nursery stock today, Ladybrook has spent more than 50 years supplying exceptional planting for some of the UK’s most design-led residential landscape schemes.
Designer: @robhughes.studio13 acres of mature trees, shrubs and large perennials in the heart of Cheshire.
@mattelson_photography / @robhughes.studio
Our Partners
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Planting schedules and specification advice either in person or over the phone or email is something that our design heritage & decades of experience puts us in a unique position to do, and we are more than happy to visit your practice to discuss or via email or phone. Site visits are all in a day’s work, and we are always happy to offer nursery tours for your practice, or for you to meet your client here.
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We work with prime housebuilders and developers across the UK across high end residential properties, providing hedging, statement pieces, or a more wide variety of planting elements for the scheme. We can create planting schedules, offer design support and planting advice as part of our service. We understand that the planting on a scheme is not a mere after thought, but a key part of building value into the property.
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We work with garden designers on residential schemes and show gardens, ensuring that the plants meets the exacting standards required. We have been privileged to have worked on many RHS show gardens, including multiple Gold, Silver and Best in Show Gardens.
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With the ability to create planting schedules, supply direct to site on the day you need the plants, and direct billing with the client where required, we can help ease your workload. We have 12 acres of stock, and our own transport allows for speedy delivery. We have vast experience working on commercial schemes, making sure the planting doesn’t let down the whole project, as we so often see.
Be Inspired
Take inspiration from our curated gallery of images encompassing insights into life on the nursery, architectural plants, large perennials, projects we have worked on and places we love.
Explore a collection of projects, architectural planting and specimen trees supplied for some of the UK’s most design-led landscape schemes.
“Ladybrook has been supplying excellent quality plants to me for over 15 years, their service is friendly and helpful and they always go the extra mile to source everything I need from the smallest perennial to mature topiary and trees”.
— JANINE CRIMMINS
Janine Crimmins Garden Design
“We are a new build developer and have worked with Ladybrook for a number of years. Their customer service is fantastic and plants are of the highest quality. Would definitely recommend”.
— CHRIS MILES
— ABODE Property Development
FAQs
What are architectural plants?
Architectural plants are specimen trees, mature shrubs and large perennials, which add structure, texture, depth and contrast to a garden.
Our belief is that through the use of architectural plants rather than small perennials often found at garden centres, a scheme has an established look as soon as it is planted, creating instant impact.
Are you open to the public?
We are a specialist wholesale nursery serving only landscape professionals, from our specification partners through to our network of landscape contractors and property developers. We are not a retail nursery and therefore are not open to the general public.
Do you sell pleached trees?
Over the past 3 years, both evergreen and deciduous pleached trees have become very popular. A pleached tree has a clear stem, and the foliage is tied to a flat panel. At Ladybrook, we offer pleached Hornbeam, pleached Laurels, pleached Photinia Red Robin and many other types of pleached trees.
Can you contract grow for a project?
For large schemes, we can collaborate with the landscape architect and contractor on a scheme to grow plants specifically for a project. This ensures that site dates can be met, the plants are all consistent and they can be inspected and QC checked at various stages of the process. Our specialty for contract growing are 5L perennials and large shrubs.
How far do you deliver?
We deliver specimen trees and plants to residential and commercial projects all over the UK, using our own transport, which provides control over the quality and delivery of the plants from beginning to end - this is extremely important to us.
Do you only sell what you grow?
We have worked hard to develop an extensive network across the UK and Europe to give our clients the ability to specify a vast range of architectural plants and trees from large bonsai trees and ornate pieces of taxus topiary through to rootball hedging, pleached trees, unusual shrubs and perennials.