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Herbal Haven
🕐 Opening Hours
| Monday | By arrangement |
| Tuesday | By arrangement |
| Wednesday | By arrangement |
| Thursday | By arrangement |
| Friday | By arrangement |
| Saturday | By arrangement |
| Sunday | By arrangement |
⚠️ This is a working nursery rather than a retail garden centre, and no walk-in hours are published. The business itself notes that the postcode covers a wide rural area and will not bring you to the door. Contact them before visiting, and use the directions on their own website. They also attend markets and over a hundred shows a year.
Hours may vary on bank holidays — always verify before visiting.
🌿 What’s Here
Culinary, medicinal and aromatic herbs, plus cut-and-come-again salads — a range no general garden centre in Essex comes close to.
A genuine specialism, with medicinal herbalists on the team. Browsable by use on their website.
Plants sent out year-round via courier, carefully packed. Free delivery on orders of eighteen plants or more.
Grown naturally and in step with the seasons; the nursery makes a point of the bees, butterflies and amphibians the site supports.
They attend over a hundred shows a year around the country, and appear at Saffron Walden market — often the easiest way to buy in person.
Available by email or post.
⭐ What Visitors Say
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📍 Getting Here
Elsenham and Newport are the nearest stations on the West Anglia line, both a short drive.
Rickling is a small village with very limited rural services.
At Coldhams Farm, Rickling, between Saffron Walden and Stansted. Use the directions on the nursery’s own website — the postcode alone will not get you there.
Quiet lanes around Rickling and Quendon.
Coordinates: 51.961947, 0.177004 · Open in Google Maps ↗
🗺 Nearby Garden Centres
Other garden centres from our Essex listings. Distances are straight-line estimates; drive times will be longer.
| Garden Centre | Area | Distance | Rating | Reviews | Notable For |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chapel End Nursery | Broxted | ~9 km SE | 4.7 ★ | 86 | Plants not giftware |
| Springwell Nursery | Saffron Walden | ~10 km N | 4.3 ★ | 186 | Bedding and tools |
| Langthorns Plantery | Little Canfield | ~14 km SE | 4.8 ★ | 334 | Rare plants and trees |
| London House Plants | Harlow | ~23 km S | 4.6 ★ | 144 | Rare houseplants |
All centres listed on allgardencentres.co.uk. Ratings from Google Maps public data, September 2026.
📊 How It Compares Locally
Benchmarked against 65 Essex garden centres tracked on this site (September 2026 data).
A specialist family herb nursery at Coldhams Farm, Rickling, growing over 250 varieties of culinary, medicinal and aromatic herbs — rated 5.0, and shipping nationwide. rates above the Essex average (5 vs 4.45 ★ county mean).
65 Essex garden centres tracked on allgardencentres.co.uk. All Google public rating data, September 2026.
☑️ Before You Go
- ⚠️ Contact them before visiting. This is a growing nursery, not a shop, and no walk-in hours are published.
- ⚠️ The postcode covers a large rural area and will not bring you to the door — follow the directions on their website.
- Over 250 varieties, browsable by use: culinary, medicinal, aromatic, or bee-friendly.
- Free delivery on eighteen plants or more, so it is worth grouping an order.
- They appear at Saffron Walden market and at shows across the country — often the simplest way to buy in person.
🔍 Data & Source Confidence
Rating data: Sourced from Google Maps public listing, September 2026. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Google. Review themes are editorial summaries drawn from a sample of recent public reviews — not verbatim quotes from any reviewer.
Opening hours: Sourced from Google Business Profile at time of collection. Hours can change — always verify before visiting, especially on bank holidays.
Distances: Straight-line (as-the-crow-flies) estimates using GPS coordinates. Actual driving distance will be greater.
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