About Us
About the business
I developed my gardening business - Trug & Lettuce - several years ago alongside my 9 - 5 day job. When my circumstances changed I spent more and more time in my own garden and allotment, and in gardens for an ever increasing number of customers.
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I worked as the head gardener in a large property on the outskirts of Bristol and alongside an established and renowned garden designer in Somerset.
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Through those jobs, and working on more and more gardens for customers around Frome and Bath, I developed a number of contacts with professional plant suppliers throughout Somerset and Wiltshire. Many of those nurseries supply the RHS, and garden centres close to Frome.
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I have sourced and supplied many different types of plant - from pleached Holm Oaks to perennials.
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Many of the plants I have sourced and supplied have been for gardens that I was working on or for customers who specifically approached me and asked me what I could get for them. I've also sold plants at a fortnightly plant sale at The Station in Frome.
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I'm registered with DEFRA as a professional plant supplier (139545) and I pride myself on the quality and health of the plants that I supply.
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I personally select all of the plants that I source. If I wouldn't pick them for my garden then I wouldn't pick them for yours. And if, when I deliver them to you, you aren't happy with them then I take them back with me - no quibbles.
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About me
This is me, the kids and Oscar the Jack Russell in 2022 up at King Alfred's Tower. We've now got two Labradoodles - Ivy and Basil - and Oscar is no more. The kids are my main motivation behind doing what I do. I implore upon them that it's really important to enjoy whatever it is that you do.......
I've not always been a gardener, but I've always had a garden. I've been passionate about plants, gardens and growing things for as long as I can remember - from cress seeds on kitchen roll and broad beans in bottles as a child, to the projects I'm currently working on.
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One of my main priorities at the moment is to redesign and transform my own front and back garden - I live in a Victorian terraced property in Frome - and to create a Mr McGregor-style vegetable and fruit garden at my allotment. Both are proving to be a challenge!
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