About

Hilary Collins with Alan Titchmarsh

Gold win at the RHS Malvern show

Hilary Collins with Matt Biggs

Palettes of eucalyptus ready for shipping

Hilary Collins with Roy Lancaster

Germinating seedlings

Hilary Collins with Tom Hart-Dyke

Eucalyptus growing at the nursery

Hampton Court exhibition

Eucalytpus boxed for shipping

Why we’re an obvious choice

We are friendly, approachable, knowledgeable, easy to contact.
We ’ ll help you choose the right eucalyptus for your garden and your purpose. There is a wealth of help and advice in choosing your Euc. available on this website, so you get the correct species for your growing environment and the job you want it to do whether that is a fast growing screening tree, one to dry up boggy ground or to look beautiful all winter with fantastic bark and pretty foliage.
We grow all our own high quality, vigorous, healthy trees raring to do the job you need them to do
Our trees are Air-pot container grown from carefully selected seeds and cuttings, in special formula peat-free compost producing safe, stable root systems.
Aftercare service: advice and support on planting, establishing and pruning your tree

About us

We are a multi-award winning, family run nursery with over 40 com bined years of nursery & 30 years landscaping experience and proud to belong to that rather endangered species - the British Grower

We (Hilary and Stephen) moved to Grafton Nursery in 2008.

After growing the odd few Eucalyptus for many years, we began serious production at our new nursery in 2010. Supported by our daughters Charlie and Victoria, along with a small but extremely enthusiastic seasonal team of people,we have become completely obsessed by all things Eucalyptus and now have over 60 species in our portfolio; 36 of which will tolerate temperatures down to -14 to -20 Celsius.

It is very important to us that people are successful with their hardy-eucalyptus , which is why we have put so much information on the website on how to plant and cultivate these magnificent trees. They are so versatile and adaptable, we now have a Eucalyptus for just about every growing scenario in the UK.

We run a research programme at hardy-eucalyptus, where we evaluate species and develop the best growing techniques,to ensure we can always deliver top quality trees to our customers. Our Eucalyptus are produced in a range of pot sizes starting with plugs for mass planting (firewood production), baby trees in 1 litre air-pot containers (for cut foliage production), starter trees in 3L & 5L, standards and multi-stems in 9L and 12.5L, giants in 20L and 45 litre pots through to mo nster trees in 100 litre air-pot containers. Not every species is produced in every pot size!

Our after care service is available in the form of extensive husbandry notes on our hardy-eucalyptus website, there is a growers manual for cut foliage producers and we also solve customer queries by email and phone.

We have been exhibiting our Eucalyptus at RHS shows since 2012. So far we have been awarded 9 Gold medals 6 Silver Gilt medals.

hardy-eucalyptus exhibit at the RHS Garden shows, BBC Gardeners World Live at the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham and Hampton Court Palace Flower Show

Name : Malvern Spring Festival

Date : 10th to 13th May 2018

Venue :

Name : Gardeners World Live

Date : 14th to 17th June 2018

Venue : NEC, Birmingham

Name : Chelsea Flower Show

Date : 22nd to 26th May 2018

Venue :

About Hilary

I’ve always been nuts about trees. It all started when aged 3, I pruned all the roots off my father’s bonsai trees! Keen on growing plants as a child, I went on to read a degree in Horticulture at the University of Bath, where I studied crop production as well as design. Since 1984, I’ve spent my career growing a wide range of plants and working with Stephen on landscape design projects; but growing Eucalyptus on a commercial scale has proved by far to be our most interesting, challenging and rewarding crop. - Hilary Collins BSc.(Hons) Hort. MCIHort.

About Stephen

I’m a third generation nurseryman, growing up on the family nursery in Cornwall. Hilary and I met at Bath and shortly after graduating, we began designing and constructing gardens. The experience we’ve gained in landscaping has proved very useful in building our award winning exhibition stands and I really enjoy meeting our customers at the garden shows.
- Stephen Collins BSc.(Hons) Hort. MCIHort.

About Charlie

I’ve been surrounded by plants for as long as I can remember, living at the family nurseries and being involved in design projects. No surprise then, that I developed a passion for landscape design and although I am now a qualified landscape architect, I still love being involved with the Eucalyptus. It’s really interesting seeing the contribution these fantastic and versatile super-trees can make to a garden and also the wider landscape.

- Charlie Collins BA.(Hons), PGDip. Landscape Architecture

About Arche

Hi - I’m Arche, the Grafton Nursery Supervisor. My job is to keep an eye on them all. They’ll’ tell you all I do is play frisbee all day and lie in the shade under the trees, but my day is packed with keeping track of what they are doing, sniffing out rabbits and alerting them when the couriers come to collect tree parcels. he frisbee thing is just a ploy to keep them on their toes. ‘Outta sight outta mind’ is my motto. If they forget I’m around, I’ll miss out on David’s sandwiches at lunch Its a tough job, but hey - somebody’s got to do it.

The Colours of Australia

We had great fun working on this website and decided to add a further Antipodean flavour, over and above the menu of Eucalyptus. The colours used throughout have been carefully chosen to reflect the colours of the Australian landscape: the vibrant green of the tree foliage, stunning bright blue skies, sun-bleached yellow grasses and the characteristic warm tones of terracotta earth. Enjoy!

Nursery opening times:

We are a production nursery in the process of major renovation and do not carry the necessary insurance to give guided tours or show people around. owever, we are more than happy for people to come and collect pre-ordered trees from our carpark (which is flat and safe to walk around!) by prior arrangement.

If you are looking for something specific or are a member of the professional Horticultural community, then do please contact us on 0751 526 1511 and we will endeavour to help