The Plant Nursery
Stillingfleet Lodge Garden & Plant Nursery – Yorkshire’s Hidden Gem
Welcome to Stillingfleet Lodge Garden and Plant Nursery, a family-run haven for plant lovers just south of York, North Yorkshire. Following our 40th anniversary celebrations in 2024, we are looking forward to another vibrant season in 2026, continuing our passion for unusual perennial plants and wildlife-friendly gardening.
Discover Our Speciality Plants
Our Yorkshire plant nursery specialises in rare and unusual perennials, which you won't find in garden centres. Many of the plants can be enjoyed growing in our award-winning cottage-style garden, so you can be sure they can deal with our Yorkshire weather conditions.
We are proud to hold one of the largest collections of hardy Geraniums in the UK, alongside an exceptional range of shade-loving plants such as Pulmonaria, Brunnera and Epimedium, and pollinator friendly plants.
Whether you’re designing a shady border, enhancing a wildlife garden, or looking for reliable perennials for year-round interest, you’ll find something inspiring in our Stillingfleet Lodge plant nursery.
Plant Orders and Collections
Whilst the garden is currently closed for the winter, we continue to open the nursery by arrangement. You can order plants in advance from our 2026 plant catalogue and then arrange a mutually convenient time to come and collect and pay. We accept cards, cash, cheques or Stillingfleet Lodge Gift Vouchers for payment of plants.
Because we do not sell plants by mail order we are able to offer larger plants. Most plants are in 1 to 2 litre pots. We are delighted to offer you our advice and guidance should you require it.
The full 2026 plant catalogue is now available. See the full list of plants by selecting the herbaceous plant catalogue or for grasses on the images below.
If you are looking for a certain plant, please click on the letters below to take you to the correct letter. As we have a large selection of both hardy geraniums and pulmonarias we have made separate lists of those too.
Key to reading the plant catalogue:
Plants in green - suitable for shaded area
AGM - RHS Award of Gardening Merit
PBR - Plant Breeders Rights
Look out for the word NEW to indicate plants that are new for 2026.
Look for plants that are good for bees in the descriptions.
We give the height of plants in imperial because that is what many of our customers (and I) understand!
Conversion Guide:
6" - 15cm, 1' - 30cm, 18" - 45cm, 2' - 60cm, 3' - 90cm
Plant Nursery - How we grow the plants
Over 90% of the plants we sell in the plant nursery are grown here. We have a well-filled stock bed where we grow on the herbaceous plants that we have split from larger plants in the garden.
We also spend much of the time when we are closed propagating plants such as phlox from cuttings and anemones from root cuttings.
In the autumn we also collect seeds from our plants. Some of the seeds are used to grow plants for the nursery in our polytunnels and we also pack some of them up for you to buy.
We are always adding new plants, so please, if you see something you like in the garden come and ask us if we have it for sale in the nursery.
[…] going to come away with no purchases. The range of plants they stock is amazing. Download the catalogue and feel envious. The main focus is perennials with an amazing collection of hardy geraniums and […]