A specialist tree nursery on the Dunmow Road at Braintree supplying mature and screening trees, pleached and topiary stock, with next-day delivery and a ...

A small, keenly priced plant nursery at Battlesbridge with a £10-a-year members' club that regulars swear by, and a tea room in an old London bus in the same ...

The RHS's Essex garden at Rettendon — a hilltop site famous for its Dry Garden, with a plant centre you can visit free of charge even without paying to enter ...

A specialist garden pottery on the A127 at Rayleigh, trading as Woodside Garden Centre on site and Pots to Inspire online — extra-large frost-resistant pots, ...

Twenty acres of private garden and woodland at Ardleigh holding two National Collections, with a tearoom and a nursery selling plants you can see growing in ...

A traditional working nursery at Writtle growing on the ground rather than on benches, with a rose and perennial range Essex gardeners drive across the county ...

A no-frills nursery on the Main Road at Bicknacre whose newer Potting Shed tea room now draws warmer reviews than the plant side — a site clearly in transition.

A compact independent garden centre on Damases Lane at Boreham that packs a lot in — pots, plants, turf, aggregates, bird and pet food, and one of the area's ...

A small family-run nursery at Fobbing with free tea and coffee, weekly prizes and a Christmas store far bigger than the site suggests — one of the best-rated ...

A large, keenly priced nursery on Hamlet Hill at Roydon with a café, a Christmas display people travel for, and reliable mail order — but no dogs, whatever ...