Plants and Planting!

We love plants! They are, after all, what brings a garden to life.

Inspiration
Whatever your style, care requirements and budget, Craig Antony Ratcliff Gardens can suggest suitable plants.
We can carefully assess your garden's aspect and soil conditions (which vary surprisingly widely on the island) and prepare professional planting plans. Together we can complement your existing space... or create a whole new design!
If you already have good specimens that are not quite working for you where they are, we can advise on carefully relocating them.

Plant Quality
We source the highest quality plants from a selection of our favourite growers both on the island and from overseas.
We install them following the best organic principles. Wherever possible we endeavour to provide organically grown seeds, bulbs and larger plants; and use organic feeds, stimulants, peat free composts and local farm yard manure during installations. We recommend suitable companion planting to help keep the new look healthy, and enjoy combining natives with exotics.

Fruit and Vegetables
We are finding that many of our customers are becoming increasingly interested in 'growing their own'.
We are keen to encourage fruit and vegetable planting wherever possible - its healthy and truly rewarding, especially for kids. We avoid all use of potentially harmful chemicals - the edibles in our care are truly organic.

Lawns
Lawns are not forgotten either; we supply and lay local hard wearing turves or we can seed to your requirements from traditional lawns to wild meadow mixes.

Commercial and Business to Business
We are proud to work with some of the islands Holiday Parks and larger employers. We believe we enhance both their visitors and workers experience of the 'gardening isle' through exciting planting.

More...
And of course all of our work can be complemented with aftercare through our excellent >maintenance service<.
You can also see more about plants we are working with recently in our regular >News Blog<)

These photographs display some of our favourite plants that we have installed and cared for. Please click on them to explore further.