DINGLE NURSERIES LIMITED

What DINGLE NURSERIES LIMITED does

Dingle Nurseries Limited is a private, family-owned wholesale plant nursery founded in 1968 near Welshpool in Mid Wales. It grows and supplies trees, shrubs, hedging, climbers, ornamental grasses and ferns, herbaceous perennials, conifers, and hedging transplants to landscapers, contractors, developers, estates, local authorities, councils, and other UK trade customers. The business has expanded from one acre to more than 600 acres of production and is supported by 80 employees.

Operationally, Dingle Nurseries is a traditional horticultural growing business combining established growing methods with professional wholesale practices; no proprietary technology, software platform, API, or AI system is disclosed. Its product range is organized into seven wholesale categories, with trees offered in bare-root and container-grown formats. The company communicates plant availability and supports plant selection, but the available data provides no details on automation, production technology, or yield systems.

Revenue is generated through one-time wholesale plant sales rather than a recurring software or service model. Orders are placed through dedicated trade accounts at undisclosed prices, and delivery is available across the United Kingdom. Public-sector projects, commercial developments, residential landscaping, estate management, and specification-led landscape design are the principal demand contexts.

Name

DINGLE NURSERIES LIMITED

Legal name

Dingle Nurseries

Website

https://dinglenurseries.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

1968

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Dingle Nurseries is a family-owned wholesale nursery near Welshpool, producing and supplying trees, shrubs, hedging, perennials, conifers, grasses, ferns, climbers, and transplants to UK trade professionals and public-sector customers through trade accounts.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Wholesale Plant Nursery

NAICS

Nursery and Floriculture Production (11142), Nursery and Tree Production (111421), Greenhouse, Nursery, and Floriculture Production (1114), Forest Nurseries and Gathering of Forest Products (11321)

akta.pro primary industry

Landscape Plant & Nursery Stock Wholesalers (Grower-Wholesalers) (AFAGAHAM)

akta.pro secondary industries

Seedling & Sapling Production (Bare-Root) (AFAMADAC), Seedling & Sapling Production (Containerized) (AFAMADAD)

Keywords

• Wholesale plant nursery
• Horticultural wholesale supply
• Landscape plant supply
• Tree and shrub wholesale
• Hedging transplants supply

Headquarters

HQ city

Fronhaul

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Wholesale Plant Sales: Dingle Nurseries generates revenue through the wholesale sale of plants, trees, shrubs, hedging, climbers, ornamental grasses, ferns, herbaceous perennials, conifers, and hedging transplants to trade professionals including landscapers, contractors, developers, local authorities, and estates. All sales are conducted exclusively through trade accounts on a wholesale basis.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Dingle Nurseries is a family-run wholesale plant nursery based in Mid Wales that grows and supplies a wide range of quality plants — including trees (bare-root and container-grown), shrubs, hedging, climbers, ornamental grasses, ferns, conifers, and herbaceous perennials — exclusively to trade professionals such as landscapers, contractors, developers, local authorities, and estates across the United Kingdom via dedicated trade accounts and UK-wide delivery.

Product overview

Dingle Nurseries operates as a wholesale-only plant nursery supplying professional landscaping products across seven distinct product categories: Climbers (climbing plants for vertical planting), Grasses & Ferns (ornamental grasses for texture and movement), Conifers (evergreen screening and structural plants), Herbaceous Perennials (seasonal flowering plants for borders and mass planting), Shrubs & Hedging (boundary and screening plants including roses), Hedging Whips/Transplants (young plants for hedgerow and woodland establishment), and Trees (bare-root and container-grown for various landscaping applications). The company operates exclusively on a wholesale basis to trade professionals including landscapers, contractors, developers, and local authorities, with all orders placed through trade accounts.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Climbers
• Grasses & Ferns
• Conifers
• Herbaceous Perennials
• Shrubs & Hedging
• Hedging Whips (Transplants)
• Trees (Bare-Root & Container-Grown)

Quantifiable outcome

• Sales have quadrupled since 2002 under Chris Andrew and Helen Barber's leadership in the sales operation division

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Hillier Nurseries: One of the UK's most established horticultural brands, combining wholesale growing with a national garden centre chain. Larger and more diversified than Dingle, but competes for the same professional and consumer-adjacent plant demand.
• Wyevale Nurseries (Wyevale Garden Centres): Historic UK horticultural business now operating as a network of independent garden centres. A broader incumbent that overlaps with Dingle in plant supply to UK landscapers and gardening consumers, though predominantly retail rather than wholesale.

Direct peers

• Tendercare Nurseries: UK wholesale nursery supplying a broad range of ornamental plants to landscape professionals and garden designers. Comparable trade-only model and product mix centred on landscape-grade shrubs, trees, and perennials.
• Palmstead Nurseries: UK wholesale nursery supplying landscape-grade plants to the commercial landscape sector. Overlaps with Dingle on customer base (landscape contractors, designers, public sector) and broad stock range.
• Johnsons of Whixley: One of the UK's largest wholesale nurseries, supplying a broad range of trees, shrubs, hedging, and perennials to landscape professionals across the country. Closest direct peer to Dingle in scale, product breadth, and trade-only GTM.
• New Place Nurseries: UK wholesale nursery supplying landscape contractors, garden designers, and local authorities with a broad range of trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants. Closely matches Dingle's customer base and product breadth.
• Majestic Trees: UK wholesale nursery specialising in semi-mature and instant-impact container-grown trees for landscape schemes. Comparable in trade-only B2B positioning and focus on high-spec landscape projects.
• Barcham Trees: Large UK wholesale tree nursery specialising in container-grown trees for the amenity and landscape market. Comparable in customer base (landscapers, developers, local authorities) and in supply of trade-spec trees at scale.
• Bransford Webbs Plant Company: UK wholesale nursery producing ornamental plants and trees for the amenity landscape market. Directly comparable in trade-only distribution and product range covering shrubs, climbers, and trees.
• Frank P Matthews: Long-established UK wholesale tree grower producing a wide range of ornamental and fruit trees for trade customers. Directly comparable in family-run heritage, broad product range, and trade-only distribution.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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