Greenwood Plants

About Greenwood Plants

Greenwood Plants is an award-winning sustainable landscape supply nursery, specialising in supply to the new build property, commercial, and infrastructure sectors. With over 200 acres of production capacity, it produces around six million plants a year across its six nursery sites in the UK, across five nursery sites. Greenwood aims to become the best in the horticultural industry through the consistent delivery of an effortless client experience. It is an award-winning sustainability leader, having been a 100% peat free grower since 2023, and working towards becoming net zero. With a loyal and growing client base, Greenwood prides itself on its fast and flexible national deliveries, its client-first approach, and its international supply chain. Greenwood is at the forefront of sustainable change in UK horticulture. We have taken bold steps to significantly improve our environmental impact and have committed to being net zero by 2030. We are focussed on achieving our carbon reduction targets, and since 2022 have measured our carbon footprint every year. We report annually on our progress and conduct regular audits to identify areas for improvement to achieve our sustainability targets. Sustainability is built into every part of our operation – from our electric and ultra-low emission vehicles to onsite water-saving technologies. We believe that real change comes from practical, everyday decisions and we are proving that sustainable growing is possible at scale. Sustainability targets 2025-2028 • 80% of purchased plants to be peat-free • 100% Head Office powered by renewable energy • 80% reduced chemical growing across our nurseries • 95% G Cycle recycling rate • 30 Greenwood Community projects per year In 2021 we launched G Cycle, our closed-loop recycling initiative for wooden packaging and plastic pots. Through G Cycle, our clients return used packing materials, which we repair, clean and reuse or recycle responsibly. This practical, scalable solution has diverted tonnes of reusable material from landfill and raised awareness across the supply chain. To date, we have recycled more than 50,000 wooden crates and 1,000,000 plastic pots, saving over a million kilograms of wood and plastic from going to landfill. We been fully peat-free since the end of 2023, having undertaken extensive trials at our nurseries to find the best possible peat-free growing media. As growers of around six million plants a year, this was a huge undertaking, but a challenge that we fully embraced, and are now working with our supply chain to follow. We are proud to grow plants that match the quality our clients expect, whilst positively contributing to our clients’ carbon footprint. Our Greenwood Community scheme involves donating plants to local charities, schools, and community organisations, to support volunteer planting initiatives for greening and encourage biodiversity. Since its launch in 2022 we have delivered to more than 80 individual projects, and this number is growing. We aim to deliver 30 projects this year. Greenwood works with local schools, colleges, SEND and youth organisations, to deliver talks or host tours to inspire the next generation to be green-fingered. Greenwood is leading research in conjunction with the Royal Horticultural Society and Sheffield University into the carbon accounting of nursery stock to create carbon models to support sustainable landscape design for urban greening. Greenwood is investing for the benefit of wider society and to encourage enhanced decision making that promotes greening, well-being, and nature. What makes Greenwood truly inspirational is our sense of purpose. We know the plants we grow are destined to transform new housing developments, community spaces, and public landscapes. Every tree, shrub, and perennial we grow helps to provide a healthier environment that supports wildlife and creates a place people want to live. Our core values – grow, effortless, sustainable, excellence, and innovation – guide everything we do. We continually work to improve our levels of client satisfaction, and secure major supply contracts, such as the Three Million Trees project with National Highways, raising the bar for what a wholesale nursery can achieve.

Areas covered

East Anglia, Midlands, National (Eng/Wales/Scot/NI), North Thames, North West, Northern Ireland, Scotland, South Thames, South West, UK Islands, Wales, Yorkshire North East

Types of work undertaken

• Commercial (unlimited)