Dale Culbreth started the business in 2011, with the intention
of turning a passion for growing unusual, exotic-looking plants
into a sustainable business. At present, the scale is quite
modest, but we have been building up stocks of the plants that we
love for over six years. As you may have picked up from the
name, garden design and installations form a large part of the
enterprise, where we showcase exotic-looking planting
schemes. We propagate almost everything ourselves, and have
been establishing a good local reputation for value and 'the
unusual' from regular, road-side sales at our home. We do not
yet run an online sales area, or full-time mail order service, but
we are able to respond to specific requests from customers for
particular plants. As time goes on, and our range and
customer base grows, we do expect to be offering a web-based sales
area.
Bamboos are our particular specialty. We currently list
around 60, and are constantly expanding the range and propagating
existing stock to be able to offer the best plants for customers'
specific needs. Bamboos are often maligned, and disregarded
by many gardeners as being overly invasive. Part of our
mission at Coastal Garden Projects is to demonstrate that there is
a bamboo for pretty much any garden situation, providing you follow
the old adage of - right plant, right place. We grow bamboos
from the following genera; Borinda, Chimonobambusa, Chusquea,
Fargesia, Hibanobambusa, Indocalamus, Phyllostachys, Pseudosasa,
Sasa, Sasaella, Semiarundinaria, Shibatea, Thamnocalamus and
Yushania. If you are not familiar with these names, please
come and say hello at one of the fairs, and
we'd be delighted to show you how the plants differ. In
particular, the Borindas are simply stunning plants, and very
well-behaved for such tall specimens.
Other plants include some of the more usual sub-tropical
suspects like Cordyline, Phormium and Trachycarpus, but many other
choice selections such as Arisaema, Cautleya, Hedychium, Kniphofia,
Roscoea and Tetrapanax 'Rex'. And, in addition, Dale is
currently training as an Arboriculturalist, so an eclectic range of
tree specimens are bound to follow: watch this space.
We look forward to seeing you at the fair.
