As a young plant nursery we have been busy over the last two years building our stock from the ground up, and have been gradually increasing the range of plants we have made available for sale. We specialise in herbaceous perennials – principally those that do well in our local climate, which, being Cornwall, can be humid and wet, particularly over winter! We consider Cornwall to be something of a canary in the coalmine for the effects of climate change, which is bringing wetter, milder winters to all of us in the UK.
Update, December 2025
We’ve recently paused all sales as our plants are packed away for winter. We generally pause sales over winter until we are sure plants have come through the winter in good spirits and have come back into active growth.
Like any plant grower, amateur or professional, we have our share of winter losses and we prefer to review our stock early in the year and make sure plants are healthy before placing them on sale again. This means we start to put stock back on sale slowly from January each year onwards, depending on when plants wake up (some inevitably start back into growth later than others). As we’re still a growing business we’ll also be adding new stock grown this year or last year and is ready for sale.
If you’re interested in our plants and what we do we would encourage you to check back from time to time to see what we have for sale. In the meantime please do feel to drop us a line at info@crossgatenursery.co.uk with any questions about the plants we’ll be selling in the year ahead.
Crossgate Nursery is sited at an ancient crossing point over the Tamar, where the meandering river divides Cornwall from Devon.
The Cornish climate has long been wetter and milder than much of the UK. But the added unpredictability of the climate in recent years has made growing conditions for us all particularly challenging.
This all means that the concept of ‘right plant, right place’ has never been more relevant to us as growers. As we grow the nursery we will therefore develop our specialism in plants that can adapt to flourish in our changing climate.
We hope you’ll take a look around, and we look forward to growing and adapting together.
In our first two trading years we sold a number of plants through our Etsy and Ebay pages, before bringing this website online last year to provide customers with a means of buying from us directly. We were delighted to hear from so many folk who bought and rehoused our plants – for a quality focused business such as ours knowing our plants are thriving in new homes is wonderful to hear!