We also recommend the Country Living Guide to Rural England: East Anglia for more ideas on what to see and do in the region. It is packed with interesting facts and profiles specialist businesses in the area - the 4th edition would be the ideal companion for your visit to Suffolk.

Suffolk is home to a wide variety of specialist nurseries and National Collections: We have linked directly to nurseries with their own website. Others are linked to their National Collection pages on the Plant Heritage website or can be found by searching on the Internet via various gardening list sites.

National Collections in Suffolk 1. Barnby Nursery Centre, Beccles 2. Dogwood Nursery, Bury St. Edmunds 3. Garnetts Gardens, Hacheston 4. Fernatix, Stoke Ash 5. Katie's Garden, Newbourne 6. Us 7. Harveys Garden Plants, Thurston 8. Paugers Plants, Depden 9. Place for Plants, East Bergholt 10. Plants of Distinction, Needham Market 11. Potash Nursery, Bacton 12. Perfect Perennials, Earl Stonham 13. Reedings Nursery, Tuddenham St. Martin 14. Rougham Hall Nurseries, Rougham 15. Walled Garden, Benhall 16. The Chilli Company, Mendlesham National Collections in Suffolk 17. Iris (Sir Cedric Morris introductions), Shelley 9. Euonymus (deciduous), East Bergholt 19. Erysimum, Halesworth 20. Syringa, Wyverstone 21. Equisetum, Mendlesham 22. Campanula, Langham 23. Hibiscus syriacus, Pettistree 6. Hosta, us 17. Dianthus (Malmaison), Shelley 18. Aesculus, Ashfield cum Thorpe

NOTE: Mickfield Water Garden Centre
Unfortunately, this business is no longer trading in Mickfield, and we have no connection with it. We do, however, get a lot of calls from people requiring pond maintenance services and recommendations of aquatic plant retailers and we want to help. Therefore, we can suggest two contacts for pond cleaning, maintenance, and construction:

Stephen Burch Tel: 01728 685447 Mobile: 07980 868136

NCS Pond Cleaning (Nigel Stimpson) Orchard Farm, Rushall Tel: 01379 854035

If you are after aquatic plants then we can recommend Waterside Nursery. The nursery is another small, family-run business that exhibits at the major shows, as we do. Linda has a lovely range of plants and pond products and also does mail order.