Tor Garden Plants

Specialist nursery for pond, marginal and moisture loving plants

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Garden Design & Consultation

Closed for the Winter - The nursery opens by appointment from 1st April 2025

Closed for the Winter - The nursery opens by appointment from 1st April 2025

The nursery will be fully stocked for spring with lots of new plants available and taking online orders from the New Year for delivery from March 2025.
How to pot up your bareroot pond plants

How to pot up your bareroot pond plants

If you are wondering how to pot up your pond plants when they arrive and the benefits of buying bareroot plants, check out our new you tube video.

How to pot up your pond plants video

About Tor Garden Plants

Tor Garden Plants is a water garden and nursery situated on the edge of Dartmoor and overlooked by tors and the famous Brentor church.

Formerly named Rowden Gardens, there has been a nursery on this site for the past 40 years and it is home to the Rowden Irises bred by John and Galen Carter during that time.

All the plants we sell through our online mail order are grown on site within the mature water garden, so we can guarantee they are strong, hardy and healthy plants.

We supply all of our plants bare root at the appropriate times of year and only use packaging that can be recycled as we work towards reducing our plastic usage around the nursery. 

Passionate about growing strong healthy plants we also want to offer our customers the opportunity to benefit from years of horticultural experience in the extra services we offer.

For expert advice on building your pond or bespoke planting plans designed specifically for your garden please check out our consultation and design page for more information.

The Rowden Nursery Collection

We are now officially National Plant Collection holders for the 'Rowden Nursery Collection'. A collection of over 100 plants bred here at the nursery by John and Galen Carter.  As new owners we think it is important to keep the history of the nursery alive and conserve these special plants for the future and make them available to our customers.

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