local gardening supplies and growers
Many local businesses in Dunoon are stocked with plants, pots, tools and compost, and other essentials, so you can create a beautiful garden or productive food-growing space. Here’s a list of garden centres and growers in and around Dunoon and Cowal for you gardeners. We’ve also included some independent growers and plant nurseries in Scotland that operate a mail-order service.
GARDEN CENTRES
IN DUNOON
Shoreside Garden Centre, Dunoon
113 Marine Parade, Dunoon, PA23 8HH
Plants, pots, a range of composts, bulbs and birdseed– and fabulous views across the Clyde!
Walkers Mica
361 Argyll Street, Dunoon, PA23 7RN
Pots, compost, manure, topsoil, slabs, gravels, seeds, tools and fertilisers, and a small selection of potted plants.
wright’s home hardware
133–137 Argyll Street, Dunoon, PA23 7DD
You’ll find compost, manure, topsoil, pots, plant propagation materials, garden benches and planters, tools, seeds and some bareroot plants (seasonal). They also stock gardening machinery, including lawnmowers and strimmers.
Cowal, argyll and inverclyde
A few garden centres you may pass on your way to and from Dunoon.
crossroads pet and garden centre
Tighnabruaich
A small family-run shop selling some gardening supplies including plants and potato tubers.
The Tree Shop Garden Centre
Clachan, Cairndow, next to Loch Fyne Oyster Bar, PA26 8BL
This garden centre is all about plants. You’ll find fruit trees, ornamental trees from ornamental small conifers to large rowans, ornamental and fruit shrubs, gorgeous perennials for your flower border, as well as herbs, alpines and annual plants. You’ll also find a variety of pots, compost and some whisky-barrel planters.
Cardwell Garden Centre
Cloch Road, Gourock, PA19 1BB
Along Cloch Road from the Western Ferries terminal a McInroy’s Point, Gourock.
Large garden centre with a wide range of plants from trees to herbs, as well as lots of pots, planters, composts and seeds.
In and around Dunoon
second-hand garden items
IN and around DUNOON
R&R Removals
122 George Street, Dunoon, PA23 8BP.
R&R’s warehouse is a treasure trove of second-hand goods. They have a tool section, with all kinds of garden and household equipment. They also get in pots and planters looking for a new home.
second-hand shops
There are many second-hand shops in Dunoon’s town centre. By buying plant pots from these places, you’re not only keeping items out of landfill, you’re also contributing to the shop’s charity. Places we keep a lookout for plant pots:
Barnardos, 2b Ferry Brae
British Red Cross, 60 John Street
Oxfam, 55/57 Hillfoot Street
Radio Charity Shop, 42 Hillfoot Street
Do you have any other suggestions? Let us know, email hello@papavergardening.co.uk.
online marketplaces
Dunoon’s online marketplaces are a great way to source used gardening items, such as slabs, tools, pots, planters, old greenhouses and more.
Freecycle is a non-profit site for people giving away unwanted items, to keep them out of landfill.
Facebook, including Facebook marketplace or one of the Dunoon Weebay groups. There are a couple of local groups where people sell and offer unwanted items for free.
Gumtree allows you to search by item and location.
Be part of the circular economy, give second-hand tools, furniture and pots a chance.
growers
IN DUNOON
grow food, grow dunoon
Kirn Primary School, Park Road, Kirn, Dunoon, PA23 8JH.
During the summer mainly, the Grow Food, Grow Dunoon project sell some of their produce and plants from their polytunnel at the school or at local markets. Keep an eye on their Facebook for details of their sales! This project is supported by the Dunoon Area Alliance.
Grow Food Grow Dunoon Facebook
papaver gardening
We hope to start selling small quantities of plants grown by ourselves here in Dunoon this year. We’ll post details on our website and social media if this happens!
Who also sell plants in Dunoon
plant sales
DUNOON
BENMORE BOTANIC GARDEN
On the A815 outside Dunoon, PA23 8QU
Small plant sales area outside the visitor centre. Open 1 March to 31 October.
Benmore Botanic Garden website
argyll abode
64 Hillfoot Street, Dunoon, PA23 7DT
Succulents, spider plants, ficus – Dunoon house-plant addicts, you’ll want to pop in here!
Who also sell plants in Dunoon
plant nurseries
Fruit trees
scottish heritage fruit trees
John Hancox, based in Glasgow
John grows and sells an extensive range of fruit trees for our Scottish climate, including apple, pear, plum, cherry, medlar and quince. He also grows a range of soft fruit shrubs, like raspberry, tayberry and blueberry, as well as hedging plants like hawthorn and elder. They send their trees out ‘bare root’ during the tree’s dormant season (winter). So it’s best to choose and order your plants by late autumn.
trees, hedging and shrubs
Scot Plants Direct
Plant nursery based in Glenrothes, Fife.
Online supplier of hedging, trees and shrubs, mainly bare root. Due to rising delivery costs, they now only take orders of a minimum of 10.
perennial plants and shrubs
macplants
Macplants Berrybank Nursery, East Lothian
Macplants also offer a mail order service. They stock alpines, ferns, grasses, ornamental perennials and shrubs.
herb nursery
poyntzfield herb nursery
Black Isle, Scottish Highlands
Probably my favourite nursery, because I do love growing herbs. They stock a wide and unusual range of herb plants and seeds. They have a limited mail order service, from February to March and September to October. Get your orders in before these dates. Or if you’re on holiday in the Black Isle, pop in to the nursery when they’re open.
Poyntzfield Herb nursery website
Wildflowers
Scotia seeds
Scottish wildflower seed packets and meadow mixes.
Naturescape
Nottingham
British grown wildflower plants, seeds and bulbs.
Organic food growing
Garden Organic’s catalogue has lots of seeds, plants and equipment for growing your own food and herbs.
Independent plant nurseries in Scotland, mail order to Dunoon. Although, in the current climate, mail order is quite changeable, so check with each supplier.
The lists on this page are for information purposes only, and Papaver Gardening cannot guarantee or endorse the quality of these suppliers and growers.
seed suppliers
Read our blog article on organic or heirloom vegetable, herb and flower seed suppliers here in the UK.
Are you a local grower who sells plants? Are you a supplier of horticultural and gardening goods in Dunoon or around Cowal? Tell us about your business and we may add it to the list.