Carpenters Nursery: St Albans’ Family Garden Centre Since 1923
Established in 1923, Carpenter's Nursery & Farm Shop is a family-run garden centre in St Albans and one of Hertfordshire's most popular gardening destinations. We offer a wide range of plants, trees, gardening tools, compost, and outdoor garden essentials. Whether you're a confident gardener or just getting started, our team is here to help you find what you need and provide practical advice along the way. Alongside our garden centre, you'll also find our Farm Shop selling fresh local produce, and our award-winning café, The Potting Shed, a popular destination for the residents of St Albans, Harpenden, Welwyn and beyond.
Potting Shed Café
One of the most renowned Hertfordshire garden centre cafes, the award winning ‘The Potting Shed' serves delicious breakfast, brunch and contemporary lunch dishes, made with our own grown and locally sourced produce. You can make reservations via the Potting Shed website. We also accept walk-in customers at any time of day. We look forward to seeing you soon!
Garden Shop
We have an extensive selection of plants, seeds, bulbs, composts, pots & containers, chemicals, feeds & fertilisers and garden tools to help you care for your garden. We also make-up our own hanging baskets, tubs and planters for balconies, roof gardens and patios. We offer kiln dried logs & firewood for domestic log burners and open fires, kindling wood, smokeless coal and charcoal as well as Calor gas, briquettes and fire starters.