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Reach committed buyers
Help verified professional buyers, including public gardens, botanical collections and educational institutions, find your peat-free range for their planting lists.
A community-interest-led service for UK horticulture
For peat-free nurseries
Put your peat-free plants in front of professional buyers.
Plant Wardian is a sourcing service helping public gardens, botanical collections and institutions find plants from specialist peat-free nurseries. We want to make it easier for UK specialist growers to reach professional buyers, show the breadth of their ranges and share current availability. Register your nursery to introduce your plants to gardens and institutions looking for distinctive peat-free stock.
For growers of every scale: established nurseries, small specialists and growers with distinctive ranges.
✳ Peat-free by design
✳ UK specialist nurseries supported
✳ Specialist growers in view
A clearer route to professional buyers
Why register with Plant Wardian?
Make your nursery easier to discover and give buyers the information they need to choose the right plants for their projects.
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Support UK specialist nurseries
We want to help specialist growers reach buyers who value distinctive ranges. Plant Wardian will give nurseries a straightforward way to present what they grow and make their plants easier for public gardens and institutions to discover.
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Highlight specialist plants and trials
Showcase distinctive cultivars and contribute to collaborative trials that could make more plants available without peat.
A straightforward process
How the service works
One plant list gives Plant Wardian a clear brief to take to participating nurseries. You choose what you can offer.
Register your nursery →
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Verified buyers submit plant lists
Gardens and institutions provide the plants, quantities and dates required.
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Nurseries share current offers
Plant Wardian matches nursery stock lists to requests and asks nurseries to confirm stock availability, quantities, sizes and prices.
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Buyers receive clear options
Buyers can compare matching plants by stock availability and size, with peat-free status confirmed and Plant Healthy certification shown where available.
Peat-free offer: only plants confirmed by the supplying nursery as grown without peat will be included. Substitutions require a fresh confirmation.
A stronger route to new customers
Make your specialist range easier to find.
UK specialist nurseries hold a wealth of distinctive plants, expertise and growing knowledge. Plant Wardian aims to connect that breadth of supply with gardens and institutions that can struggle to find the right plants efficiently.
For specialist growers
Put your range in front of the right buyers
Share the plants and quantities you can offer, along with sizes and prices. Buyers can discover your nursery while building planting lists, and you stay in control of which lines you quote for.
For UK horticulture
Help specialist nurseries thrive
By bringing peat-free growers and buyers together in one place, Plant Wardian can help more independent nurseries be seen, support demand for specialist plants and make peat-free sourcing simpler for everyone.
A community interest purpose
Built to benefit UK horticulture.
Plant Wardian is being developed as a Community Interest Company to make peat-free sourcing easier, improve access to specialist plants and support shared trials for plants that are not yet widely available without peat.
Any surplus will support that community purpose, including service development, better sourcing information and collaborative peat-free trials.
Once formally registered, Plant Wardian will identify itself as a Community Interest Company. The CIC structure includes an asset lock that protects company assets for community benefit.
For public gardens and institutions
Looking for plants?
Share a plant list and help shape a clearer route to peat-free supply.
For nurseries
Register your nursery.
Tell us what you grow and what information would help buyers find your plants.
Registration is free. Plant Wardian charges nurseries no registration fee or commission on orders.