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Architectural Plants

Architectural Plants is home to an ensemble of captivating garden spaces designed to inspire you. Explore the Mediterranean lake garden and surrounding bankside walk tended by Head Gardener Colin and his apprentices. Italian cypress, olives, pines, hardy palms, spiky plants, and bamboo grove. The guided tour inc the large Acer house, the greenhouse of exciting and rare exotics, and a specialist Niwaki Production Zone. Prepare to enter exotica.

Owner Info

  • Mr Guy Watts
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About Architectural Plants

Architectural Plants will be opening its gardens exclusively to The NGS for one Sunday on 27th July. Set within the South Downs of West Sussex, it is an inspirational nursery for all plant hunters and those looking to have their garden designed. A site of horticultural excellence spanning 32 acres, it is home to over 40,000 trees and plants and an ensemble of captivating garden spaces designed to stimulate your imagination. Head Gardener, Colin Jupp has developed these distinctive spaces, and this is a unique opportunity to enjoy his work and the wider collection curated by Owner, Guy Watts.

Displayed across the nursery are elegant examples of European Villandry, curvaceous sculptural Japanese cloud pruned ‘Niwaki’ and other varieties of crisply-clipped topiary. Collections of multi-stems, lines of verdant evergreen screening trees and deciduous sculptural structures frame the drive, avenue and pathways. Luxuriant and textural choices of underplanting arranged with eye-catching pops of colour sit among meandering and smartly manicured blobberies. Innovative homegrown varieties, smaller shrubs and rarities fill two large shade houses and the ‘proper nursery’.

There’s an Acer House with the largest collection of mature maples in the south of England for you to wander through. Colin’s Mediterranean themed garden of mature pines, Italian Cypress trees, hardy palms, olives, exotic spiky plants and succulents lead you to the lake. There’s a bankside folly for you to stop at and take in the view. The surrounding lakeside walk has been designed using thriving examples of European and Continental plants with a tropical grove to explore at the end of the route.

Colin is supported by the nursery’s in-house apprentices who learn to plant and train these plants. It is also where seed and cuttings are taken to propagate from for their homegrown production. The Greenhouse polytunnels hold exciting exotic delights from across the world. Amid the unfurling tree ferns and tropical palm canopies lies a specialist ‘Niwaki’ Production Zone where you can discover the techniques involved in growing and training these trees. For those with a seriously horticultural enquiring mind, there’s a propagation laboratory and a series of homegrown production tunnels to investigate, too.
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Location details

Architectural Plants,
Pulborough,
West Sussex,
RH20 1DJ

Directions to Architectural Plants
Black & white bollards out the front, diagonally opp Hepworth Brewery.

Architectural Plants openings

For this open day you can book your tickets in advance. Click on the yellow button below to book or you can just turn up and pay on the day.

Refreshments Tea, coffee & cake. Guided tours on the hour.
Admission Adult: £12.00
Child: Free
Opening times 10:00-17:00

Accessibility

  • Wheelchair access to the garden and lake view via grass lawns, and the plant nursery spans over a flat site.
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FAQs

Yes, cashless payment is accepted.

Yes, coaches are accepted at Architectural Plants. Please get in touch with the owners for details.

Yes, dogs are welcome at Architectural Plants. Please keep the dogs on fixed short leads in the garden and keep in mind that you are responsible for controlling the dog’s behaviour. For any specific rules please ask the owners.

Yes, there are various plants offerred for sale at Architectural Plants, please enquire with the owners for more details.

Yes, one or more routes at Architectural Plants are accessible to wheelchair users.

Architectural Plants is not explicitly a wildlife garden, but you may still find various indigenous flora and fauna.