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King & Co — The Tree Nursery
🕐 Opening Hours
| Monday | 9:00 – 16:00 |
| Tuesday | 9:00 – 16:00 |
| Wednesday | 9:00 – 16:00 |
| Thursday | 9:00 – 16:00 |
| Friday | 9:00 – 16:00 |
| Saturday | Closed |
| Sunday | Closed |
Weekdays only — closed Saturday and Sunday. Visits may need to be booked by appointment; call before travelling. Hours may vary seasonally.
Hours may vary on bank holidays — always verify before visiting.
🌿 What’s Here
A large, healthy selection across many sizes — screening trees, ornamental cherries, beech, magnolia, tulip trees and more. Reviewers consistently rate the range above other nurseries they tried.
Pleached photinia and trained forms, plus topiary cones — specialist lines that are hard to source locally.
Very frequently praised. Orders placed one day arriving the next, with drivers turning up at the stated time and planting instructions included.
A team will deliver and plant. Reviewers describe the work as quick and tidy.
Laurel hedging and shrubs alongside the tree stock.
Staff send photographs of actual stock to help you choose remotely — named repeatedly as what made the process easy.
⭐ What Visitors Commonly Mention
Themes from recent public Google reviews sampled September 2026 — editorial summaries, not verbatim quotes. Bars show relative prominence within the sample, not counts of all 113 reviews.
Sentiment summary: Strong and specific praise for the product and the buying experience — the range of mature trees, the speed of delivery and the quality of remote advice come up again and again, with individual staff named warmly. There is, however, a clear and repeated counter-theme worth knowing before a large order: several customers report that trees which failed after planting were not replaced or refunded, and describe being told no survival guarantee applies. Others report packaging problems on smaller mail orders. Ask about terms in writing before committing to a significant spend.
Source: Google Maps public review data, sampled September 2026. This page is not a review platform and does not collect first-party reviews.
📍 Getting Here
Braintree is the nearest station, at the end of the branch from Witham, roughly 3 miles. You will need a car for trees in any case.
Braintree town is well served, but the nursery sits out on the Dunmow Road — no route has been confirmed as stopping outside.
On the A120 Dunmow Road corridor west of Braintree, easy to reach and signposted. Parking on site.
Possible from Braintree, but this is a nursery selling large trees — a bike is unlikely to be the right tool.
Coordinates: 51.8744747, 0.4992902 · 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Braintree Garden Centre | Braintree | ~6 km E | 4.3 ★ | 1,091 | British Garden Centres |
| Cherry Lane Braintree | Braintree | ~7 km E | 4.3 ★ | 978 | Large indoor range |
| Pot Shop | Boreham | ~13 km S | 4.6 ★ | 172 | Pots, turf, bottled gas |
| Langthorns Plantery | Little Canfield | ~13 km W | 4.8 ★ | 334 | Rare plants and trees |
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 tree nursery on the Dunmow Road at Braintree supplying mature and screening trees, pleached and topiary stock, with next-day delivery and a planting service. rates above the Essex average (4.5 vs 4.45 ★ county mean).
65 Essex garden centres tracked on allgardencentres.co.uk. All Google public rating data, September 2026.
☑️ Before You Go
- ⚠️ Ask about guarantees before a large order. Several reviewers report failed trees were not replaced or refunded, and were told no survival warranty applies. Get the terms in writing.
- Weekdays only, and visits may need booking by appointment — call first.
- If you cannot visit, ask them to send photographs of the actual stock. Reviewers rate this highly.
- Next-day delivery is genuinely next-day in most reports, and drivers arrive when stated.
- A planting team can install what you buy — worth costing if the trees are large.
🔍 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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