Waterside Nursery
We are specialist growers of both marginal water plants for ponds and also miniature water plants and waterlilies for patio container features sold to you as ready potted plants.
Now you have found our website - You are on our online shop providing quality water plants, waterlilies, oxygenating and floating plants and containers with planting schemes mail order.
We are a family run company based in Sharnford, Leicestershire operating since 1995. However we are not always at the nursery as we exhibit our water plants and container ponds as RHS Floral Marquee Gold Medalists.
Our nursery is only open to the public by appointment so that we know we will be here when you visit.
- Please phone 07931 557082 or email - contact us to make arrangements and get directions.
We supply special orders for Golf clubs, fishing lakes and schools:
- A selection of grasses chosen to suit a wet area on a Golf Course with seasonal interest and contrasting shapes and textures.
- Large multihead baskets of waterlilies for impact on Golf club lakes
- Schemes for year-long water plant interest on lakes at Golf Clubs.
- Water plant surface cover selections for coverage over fish spawning areas.
- School ponds planted with water plants to encourage children's interest in their environment
We work with landscapers:
- Advice on suitability of specialist plants for landscaper's projects – both water plants and bog garden areas.
- Supply of specially prepared water plant baskets to finish off a designer's hard landscaping
We can supply miniature pond plants for planting container ponds:
- Co-ordinated colour water planting schemes for all year interest
- Schemes to mark an anniversary ie Ruby Wedding
- Shady/sunny container water plant schemes
We are listed as a supplier in the RHS Plantfinder 2009 - 2010 where specialist Nurseries with unusual plants on offer are listed so that customers have one trusted source to find that elusive specimen.
We exhibit in the Floral Marquee at RHS and other major shows around the country.
- 2010 - Silver Gilt at Malvern Spring and our first Chelsea Flower Show followed by 3 Gold Medals at NEC Gardeners World, Hampton Court and Tatton Park.
- 2009 - Gold at Harrogate and then Silver Gilt at RHS Malvern, NEC Gardener's World and Hampton Court. Gold once again at Tatton Park and for our first display at Southport Flower Show.
- 2008 - a major goal - RHS Gold Medals at all 3 of the shows we exhibited at (Malvern, NEC Gardener's World and Tatton Park). We also won Gold at Harrogate, The Royal Show and Shrewsbury Flower Shows.
- 2007 - We enlarged the NEC and Tatton exhibit to 15' square and again received Silver Gilt but we certainly caught the imagination of the public as we combined a huge water plant area with larger feature specimens and decking to illustrate container features (patio ponds) showing small water plants including miniature waterlilies.
- 2006 - Malvern Spring, NEC Gardener's World and Tatton: 3 Silver Gilt Medals
- 2005 - Our first RHS Show at Malvern Spring: Silver Gilt Medal
To see this years list of show dates please see our Shows page.
For good quality hardy herbaceous perennials we recommend you use the link below to Redman Hardy Plants.
