ESTABLISHED in 1910 we are suppliers of plants to garden centres, stores, nurseries and markets

Reads Nurseries is located in the heart of Norfolk at Dereham.

In 1910 Francis Charles Read moved to Dereham from Costessey near Norwich and established the nursery. His son James francis became a partner in 1930 and became sole owner in 1951. Twenty years later he retired and his son David James became sole owner.Allan James joined his father David in 1990 to establish the partnership that runs the  nursery today.Over the last 10 years the nursery has expanded and modernised with the construction of new heated glasshouses and polyhtene structures.

We presently supply a large number of independant garden centres and stores throughout East Anglia. The nursery has a flexible production set up allowing production of a range of protected ornamental crops.Our aim is to supply you, the customer,with a range of high quality products at the right price and because we supply products direct from the nursery they will have a long shelf life.

DISTRIBUTION

Reads Nurseries offers a weekly delivery service in East Anglia using our own transport with experienced drivers who know how plants should be handled. Plants are supplied on tagged or non tagged trolleys which can be swapped like for like on delivery. Orders received by Tuesday lunch time will be delivered the same week.

Orders outside East Anglia we will be happy to quote for delivery.

LABELLING

We can barcode and price according to your specifications, these must be stated on orders.

PRODUCT RANGE

To see the range of products and wholesale prices click on AVALABILITY.

If you would like an idea of the products we will be producing over the next six months click on PRODUCTS

If you require any samples we will be happy to get them to you as quickly as possible.

BLOG by Allan Read 4th February 2011

December was the coldest I can ever remember and as a result sales were not as good as expected.However January has been very encouraging with sales of cyclamen and primroses at levels better than last year.

With Valentines and Mothers day coming up I am hoping for good sales in all flowering plants.I have been very encouraged by the sales of planted bowls,baskets and hanging baskets which are on the availability lists nearly all the year.A lot of this is down to Barry who is mainly responsible for making them up and this is an area I will be expanding upon this year.

The nursery has started sowing veg seed and potting fuchsias,geraniums,basket plants etc so things are well under way for the spring, lets hope its a good one.

BLOG by Allan Read 14th March 2010

What a long cold winter it has been. Sales in January and February as a result were poor. However the last two weeks with the build up to Mothers day have been a lot better. We expect to start selling Basket Plants,Fuchsias and geraniums in about a week.

Vegetable plant sales have started well and look like they will increase on last year. The new label we have had printed celebrating 100years will help the sales of veg as it is large and stands out.

Lets keep our fingers crossed for good weather at Easter.

BLOG by Allan Read 9th January 2010

Happy New Year to all of our customers old and new.

At the start of 2009 it looked like the year was gonig to be very difficult but to my surprise sales started very well in January and kept on going throughout the year. It turned out to be a very good year with the nursery producing and selling record numbers of plants. In a lot of cases we could have sold more.

As a result of our success we will be expanding our operations over the next twelve months and growing more of the popular products. Vegetables seem to be very much the in thing, so we will be introducing our own large label celebrating 100 years in business to go with a lot of these products.

2010 has not started very well but with snow on the ground we can not expect to much. I am confident however that once the snow clears sales of primroses and potted bulbs will gather pace.