We carefully choose our retail partners based on strict criteria including:

water butt range, cost, customer service, & customer delivery.

You can be assured you are buying from the best names at the lowest prices

Crocus   

Crocus is the only gardening website that specialises in plants. Of course we sell everything else you'll need for the garden, but plants are our thing. We pride ourselves on being able to offer you the biggest choice of plants in the UK. To give you an example, a good garden centre can give you around 400 plant varieties to choose from. We can offer over 4,000.

If you're worried about all this choice, don't be. We can help narrow it down for you, either on the site (I find keen but clueless' a useful description of my ability) or e-mail one of our four plant doctors; and they'll give you a host of golden ideas.

Once you’ve placed your order you’ll get a confirmation email to let you know when to expect delivery. We're obsessed with ensuring your precious plant arrives with you feeling and looking as good as when it left us. Our couriers are the only ones we’ve found that will handle your plants as carefully as we would. We’re also very proud of our packaging. It was specially designed for us and has recently won a design award. Occasionally something will get damaged and if it does we will replace it, however currently our return rate is under 1%.

Once your order has arrived we’ll keep in touch via e-mail with gentle reminders about pruning, spraying, and fertilising and providing the TLC that the new addition to your garden needs to thrive.

Who are we?

Since our launch in April 2000, we've grown into the biggest gardening website in the UK and the only one able to supply a significant range of plants. Our approach has won us many compliments. The two we are most proud of are the Yell.com Best Commerce Site Award for 2001 beating the likes of Sainsburys.co.uk, and the Sunday Telegraph's @chievement 2001 Award for which we won the small business category – no mean feat when you consider that the winners of the other categories were Tesco.com and Majestic.com.

But it's what our customers think that we care about most. If we can make your experience at Crocus an enjoyable and productive one, then we've cracked it. We want you to get right into the whole Crocus experience and become a regular, which is why we've tried to sort out a site that's not only user-friendly but informative. If you have anything to say about what we've done - whether we've done it well or badly - we really would like to hear from you. Really.

Greenfingers  

Greenfingers' mission is 'Inspiration for your Garden.' We aim to provide you with a range of content and shopping opportunities that will help you achieve inspiration in your garden, be it around a house in the country, a city garden, a window-box or a pot-plant in your bathroom. With the accessibility and interactivity the Internet can offer we aim to help people find the ideas, information, advice and products they need, just when they need them with as much ease and convenience as possible.

We've not simply put a garden centre online. We are passionate about the range of content that we offer that provides information and advice before you purchase. And we offer a vast array of plain-English, purpose-built gardening information.

Since we launched in April 2000 we have expanded from internet only to being truly multi-channel. You are able to order via any of four channels - internet, telephone, fax or post.

We're also determined to look after our customers, whether you come to us to shop, for advice, for inspiration, or for information. To this end we have our own dedicated call centre in Livingston, Scotland. We aim to make the Greenfingers experience as rewarding and enjoyable as we possibly can.

The People...
Not only has Greenfingers.com been built and backed by people with unmatched experience it is being led by a management team second to none, with relevant expertise in ecommerce and real-world retail.

Ethical Superstore

At our core, we are committed to helping you, the ethical consumer “Buy What You Believe”. You can choose from the widest range of the finest quality fair trade, organic, and eco friendly products via our Ethicalsuperstore.com website. We strive to provide you with a simple and secure online shopping experience, with personal service always there when you need it (we actually pick up the phone and respond to emails), together with a fast and flexible delivery service. We’re always looking for ways to minimize the impact our service has on the environment – we’re working to make our packaging as eco-friendly as possible and we even offer a service to carbon offset our deliveries to you. We realise it can be confusing deciding which ethical products to buy and what information to believe, so we do our best to share product background information to help you make informed ethical purchasing decisions. We’re committed to providing you with comprehensive and accurate information about the ethical credentials of the products and brands we sell. Given how important it is to be open and accurate with this type of information, we will be creating opportunities for you to get involved in this important area of our community.

Our Products

If it’s a high quality product that makes a positive impact to people and/or the planet, we want to help you the ethical consumer find it and buy it – anything from Fairtrade and organic grocery shopping, to energy efficient gadgets, to unique ethical gifts that give back to the people that made them. We sell products from leading ethical brands as well as supporting products from independent traders and producers, including products sourced from fair trade suppliers in over 40 countries. We even share our products’ origins, to make it easier for you to see where products come from and to help you support where your heart may be – for example, if you’d prefer to buy your holiday gifts from fair trade producers in Bangladesh.

In order for a product or brand to be sold by Ethicalsuperstore.com, it must have established ethical credentials in at least one of the following areas:

We also evaluate a brand/manufacturer’s overall ethical credentials in deciding whether we should sell a particular product. When a product has received an ethical claim that has been certified or verified by an independent 3rd party organisation, we will share that information with you. For example, we sell ethical products with claims certified by the Fairtrade Labelling Organisation, Soil Association, and Energy Saving Trust. We appreciate your fundamental question is ‘how ethical?’ is a given product – we do our best to help you find the correct answers.

Ultimately the choice is yours, the ethical consumer, of what to support in your ethical purchasing – our aim is to empower you to make the choices that are right for you and your family. Please let us know if there is a product or brand you feel we should support (or stop supporting).

Our Economics

We are an ethical business, which to us means more than merely setting a good example. To be a true leader of the ethical consumer revolution, we are committed to achieving rapid growth so we can afford to continuously innovate and expand our support of new ethical products and services. Being smarter with our income and expenses by operating a web-based business, we can be fair with the prices paid to our suppliers as well as with the prices we charge our customers – we’re always looking for the “win-win” situation. We also aim to go the extra mile in supporting what we believe in – not everything in business can be quantified, but we do it because it is the right thing to do. We’ve invited like-minded investors to help strengthen our financial foundation – this has been really helpful in accelerating our growth. We believe an essential part of our success will involve having a broad ownership in our company – our staff is already included in the ownership of the company (staff discounts are cool, too) and eventually we hope to create the opportunity for you the ethical consumer to join us as owners.

Our People

We’re passionate about what we’re trying to achieve in serving the ethical consumer, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously We have fun doing our work and we encourage our staff to maintain a healthy work-life balance. We support a culture that respects each individual in our team, encouraging him or her to apply his or her own values, strengths and creativity to what we do. We have some real talent for ethical product development and sourcing, programming, web design, customer service, business development, warehouse management and order packing, stock management, accounting and number crunching, and quality control. We also have many trusted partners (many pioneers themselves in ethical trade) that we collaborate with to serve the ethical consumer. At our core, we strive to be good listeners and are constantly looking for opportunities to learn and share what we learn with you. An unlimited supply of Fairtrade coffee and tea at work certainly helps.

Nigel's Eco Store

Nigel explains what we're all about:

"I set up Nigel's Eco Store in 2005, because I wanted to do something positive, and make a difference.

"There's a few more of us now, but the main thing is that we all continue to be inspired by eco friendly products and ideas that solve environmental challenges, and yet are still fun, functional and desirable.

"In our searches for new eco products to add to our range, we love things that use less energy, re-use materials, don't pollute, or that are natural and organic, and compared to non-eco alternatives, do the same job, and look and feel just as great - or better!

"When you choose something eco friendly, you get a double benefit; you love it (we hope) and you're moving towards sustainability, which means it's better for everyone, and the planet.

"We're constantly looking for new and innovative, environmentally friendly, natural and organic and feel-good products, and make them easier for you to have and own, so we can all make this move towards environmental sustainability.

"The things we sell mean that you can choose to live in a more sustainable way, and so make a positive contribution to a better and brighter future. "

This is what Nigel's Eco Store actually does:

• We provide practical, functional and beautiful eco friendly, natural and organic products that you can buy right now, at reasonable prices
• We make eco choices easier
• We carefully select the eco products we offer from the best of what's available
• We give you ideas, information and inspiration to be more eco-friendly
• We help you make good buying decisions
• We make it easy to shop and buy environmentally friendly

Help yourself or help the planet? The two things can be done together. We sell products that will cut your electricity bill, gas bill or the amount of water you use. And in using them you will reduce your effect on the environment. So come on in, save money, and save the planet. 

Great value, no stress shopping - the very best for your garden, direct to your door...

Our range is chosen and regularly updated by a team with many years of experience in both selecting and using garden equipment, gained in the Garden Centre, Nursery and seed trades as well as mail order. Above all, it is based on our own gardening experience, both professional and amateur, and we provide detailed information on every single item so you’ll know all about the products before you buy. 
Remember, the right tools make all the difference. And, with no shops or expensive overheads, prices can be kept down. When you shop with Ferndale Lodge, you can be sure you’re getting top quality, great value products you can trust - year in, year out!

Our Guarantee

All goods offered have been chosen for their quality and value, and should reach you in perfect condition. Should you be in any way dissatisfied with your purchase, please let us know as soon as possible and we will either replace, exchange, or refund the price.

Dobies have been supplying flower and vegetable seeds direct to gardeners since 1880, starting in the Chester area, and for over fifty years now, to customers throughout the UK. An extensive range of products is featured in our main annual catalogue , which is sent free on request.

In addition to seeds, we offer the largest range of young annual plants available by post, plus bulbs, fruit and garden equipment.