The list of suppliers given below is provided as a free service to those planning to sow or plant native flora. Some of the companies listed will supply plants or seed in quantities suitable for planting in gardens and many will provide an advisory service to help with the selection of suitable species or the planting, preparation and management of specific sites. This is not a service to promote the business of plant suppliers.

Some of the listed companies also grow and/or supply exotic or cultivated varieties of native species. Plant buyers are advised to ensure that they correctly specify their requirements (specifying the precise locality or country of orign) and check suppliers claims about whether species are native. See Flora locale’s section on sourcing native flora for further guidance and the Checklist of British and Irish Flora.

The suppliers with  a against their name have adopted the Flora locale Code of Practice for collectors, growers and suppliers of native flora.

Nurseries on the Treetrader site have agreed to follow the Forestry Commission's voluntary certification scheme for native trees and shrubs. Go to www.treetrader.co.uk.

Mention on this list does not constitute an endorsement by Flora locale of any company, supplier or organisation, their services or products and any associated claims made by them. Neither is it necessarily a full or complete list of suppliers who sell plants and seed of native origin or local provenance. Inclusion of companies and suppliers on this list is at the discretion of Flora locale.

Flora locale, its directors and agents, accept no liability whatsoever: for the omission of a grower or supplier from this list, any claims or consequences arising from the publication of this list, or resulting from any trade undertaken or advice provided by companies or individuals included in or omitted from this list. No grower or supplier of native plants is currently entitled to use the name Flora locale in any promotional material, media or correspondence that directly or indirectly promotes their products and/or services except in relation to a statement to the effect that the operation has adopted the Flora locale Code of Practice for collectors, growers and suppliers of native plants and seed (and this must be accompanied by a signed statement in accordance with the conditions of the Code).

Flora locale is aware that a small number of suppliers are providing misleading information in their online catalogue. This includes the advertising of seed mixtures which contain non-native species but purport to be of British or Irish wild species originating from either country. We are also aware that some suppliers have been involved in substituting origins or species with alternatives not asked for by purchasers.

There are a growing number of nurseries and seed houses which claim to supply wild flowers. In particular there are an increasing number selling via the internet or mail order who are hard-selling expensive seed mixtures with little knowledge of what species they are selling and their management requirements. (Often this is because the businesses concerned mostly sell stock for gardens and the landscape industry.) Purchasers need to beware. Flora locale continues to recommend purchasing from a specialist grower and does not have the resources to police claims made by individuals or companies. In case of suspected mis-advertising or mis-supply, the supplier should be contacted in writing, detailing the complaint. Should the situation not be satisfactorily resolved the local Trading Standards Officer should be contacted. 

One supplier has over recent years purchased internet domain names using the names of a number of the suppliers listed here, for the purpose of redirecting business to his website. Please type web URLs in accurately to ensure you contact the correct supplier.

• are able to source identify some or all of the seed or plants that are supplied
• where they can identify the country or locality of native origin and/or local provenance this information is available to actual and prospective plant buyers ("the customer")
• where they are unable to source identify the country of native origin or local provenance of plants or seed of native species, they inform the customer that the locality of native origin and/or local provenance is unknown
• identify to the plant buyer when a native species that is being supplied is of cultivated origin [in any case this does not qualify for Flora locale's definition of a British native plant] or hybrid stock
• will not use the terms "British wildflower, British native, British plant" to describe flora that is not of British native origin (or trees and shrubs that are not of native provenance) or to a locality within Britain and that they are equally discriminating over using the term English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish when used
• will only use the terms "local" and "regional" when describing flora of native origin or native provenance to the local areas or regions referred to in their marketing literature or other sales information
• agree not to substitute flora specified by the customer with plants or seed that are of a different native origin or native provenance or of a different species than that specified, unless the client has agreed to this beforehand.

Some suppliers who have not adopted the code may follow appropriate auditable management systems which can provide customers with confidence over plant origin. Where we are aware of such systems that are followed this information is identified in the "other notes" column.