A small home-growing nursery tucked away on Folly Chase at Hockley, with begonias, fuchsias and geraniums raised on site, a little coffee shop, and informal ...

A mail-order nursery at Rawreth whose packaging is repeatedly called the best customers have ever received — plug plants and young perennials shipped ...

A tree specialist at Battlesbridge run by Peter Drake, supplying screening trees, laurel hedging and mature specimens with a home assessment and planting ...

A traditional family nursery at Weir Cutting on the A127 with a 4.9 rating, plant-care notes on every pot, and no café or gift shop — which its customers ...

A small independent family garden centre at Ardleigh with unusually well-kept plants, keen prices and staff reviewers name individually — a hidden gem by ...

A large, long-established garden centre at Lawford with an unusually wide plant range and wheelchairs available — but the most sharply divided reviews of any ...

A larger-than-it-looks nursery on the Walden Road outside Saffron Walden with a strong bedding range and good tools — though reviewers are split on whether the ...

A houseplant warehouse at Harlow with a rare and unusual range that plant collectors travel for — outstanding in person, but the online side has a real record ...

A specialist tree and mature shrub nursery on the Epping New Road at Loughton, with a planting service and a reputation for stock you cannot find elsewhere — ...

A long-established hidden nursery at Greenstead Green near Halstead with an exceptional fuchsia range, strong herbs and vegetable plants, and prices that keep ...

A small family nursery near Canewdon whose made-to-order hanging baskets are booked months ahead — no café, nothing fancy, and one of the best-rated plant ...

An old-school family nursery at Great Bromley that puts plants first — strong on vegetable plants and bulk topsoil, with no coffee shop and no apologies for it.