A family-run Garden Centre in Essex

Welcome to Poplar Nurseries,

a leading independent garden centre in Essex

, well-renowned for our wide range of plants and excellent customer service. You can find our extensive garden centre in Marks Tey, just minutes from Colchester, where we stock an extensive range of plants, garden care accessories, lawn care products, bird food, bird care accessories, gifts, seasonal produce and much more. All of our friendly plants team have excellent horticultural knowledge, which enables them to deal with any plant enquires and give specialist garden advice.

Enjoy a meal in our beautiful restaurant serving home-cooked specials or let your little ones explore our latest workshops and take a ride on our Poplar Miniature Railway. Discover fresh produce in our delectable farm shop and delicatessen. Browse our on-site concessions, making Poplar a one-stop shop for garden machinery, garden buildings, conservatories and even a haircut.

More About Us

FARM SHOP

GIFT SHOP

Delivers

Restaurant

Dogs

Update

Following the latest government announcement regarding National Lockdown, we would like to inform you all that Poplar Nurseries Garden Centre and Farm Shop is set to remain open, so you will still be able to visit us for all your gardening essentials, produce and more. We have many COVID-secure measures in place to ensure the safety of both our staff and customers, which we encourage you to read up on by clicking the read more link below. If you are planning to visit us during lockdown please note that our restaurant and train remain closed. We are wishing you all well during this difficult time and look forward to being able to reopen the entirety of Poplar Nurseries once again in the future.

Call & Collect From Our Farm Shop

If you don't wish to browse our Farm Shop in person, don't worry – we're introducing a new Call & Collect Service on all our Farm Shop essentials. Simply call us on 01206 210374 to place your order of fresh produce, ready meals and more and arrange a time to safely collect your items from us. Available throughout January and February for Farm Shop products only.

New Poplar Food Hall

opening early spring 2021

We are hugely excited about the forthcoming opening of our new Poplar Food Hall in early spring. It doesn’t seem possible that it is ten years since our original Farm Shop opened it’s doors in 2010! Since then we have established a regular customer base who enjoy the experience of shopping in our relaxed and friendly atmosphere.

PLANTS FOR WINTER INTEREST

With a little bit of thought and planning our gardens can lift the spirits, even on the darkest of days. Plants are tinged with white and glistening spider webs on frosty mornings, colourful dogwoods add vivid splashes of bright colour and the snowdrops will soon be in flowers.

Come and join our Gardening Club

We meet on a monthly basis in the restaurant at Poplar Nurseries and have a guest speaker at each meeting.
We also have 4 or 5 one day trips as well as a 5 day holiday each year for visiting various gardens.

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