Beautiful gardens start right here... with beautiful plants.
From seed, plug plant or small liner, we grow more than 90% of the plants that you’ll see on a visit – right here in our huge 32 acre nursery – that’s 141,640 square metres of growing area!
Nursery Manager Damien is at the helm of a dedicated full time nursery team, responsible for the expansive growing area, and ensuring high quality, fresh stock is consistently available to fill the vast garden centre benches.
From propagating house, to potting tunnel, to heated tunnel or outside nursery bay, our plants are under the continuous care of the nursery team until they make the journey down the lane to the garden centre, when they then become the responsibility of Garden Centre Manager Nick, and his team. Some plants spend months in the nursery, and the slower growers or more mature plants, can spend years with us. We invest in our plants and want them to be the best that they can possibly be when they go home with our customers.

So, what plants do we grow and stock? Well, the list is endless really. Trevena Cross plants are suitable for filling gardens of all size, type and style, from window box to large country estate, in urban, rural, city, country, coastal, exotic, desert or forest settings (to name a few!)
Plants we grow and/or supply include, but are not limited to; shrubs, perennials, trees, specimen plants, a huge range of coastal plants (of course!), hedging plants (on mass!), dwarf plants, ground cover plants, exotic plants, rare and unusual plants, wildlife friendly plants, seasonal bedding and patio plants, aquatic plants, succulent plants, shade plants, Cornish wall plants, alpines, grasses, grow your own including herbs a plenty – and we also have a good selection of houseplants in our shop (Phew!)
We have a selection of FREE plant and garden guides available to help you on your plant adventures! These can be picked up inside the shop, or can be downloaded here.

Knows What Grows
Trevena Cross has remained in the same hands since the business’s inception back in 1976. Over the years the family have acquired more land, and the growing area has steadily increased, to the 32 acres it is now (35 acres including the three acre garden centre).
In the hands of the same owner for all that time means Graham not only has decades of experience running the business and understanding his plants – what grows well in Cornwall, how to maximize growing potential etc, but he also has incredible understanding of his customers, and what they want.
Graham offers the benefit of his own first-hand growing experience, and invaluable horticultural knowledge and expertise, alongside a team of other plant experts. This expertise really sets Trevena Cross apart from other garden centres locally, and nationally.
The fact that Trevena Cross grows more than 90% of its plant stock on site also means that the garden centre can provide healthier plant assurances, with a much reduced risk of importing any pests or diseases from external locations. The small proportion of plants, like the large palm trees and olive trees that can’t be grown to such stature on site, undergo full vetting to ensure they are pest and disease free before importation, with plant passports and licenses allocated as required to ensure plants are healthy and can be traced.