About Us
We see it as our mission is to fill your life with colour, beautiful home-grown flowers, home-grown food and the joy of growing!
Our founders Iben and Trevor both have a lifelong passion for plants & gardens. Iben started her career as a Landscape Architect in Copenhagen & Trevor started as an Estates Gardener after studying Horticulture at Writtle agricultural college.
This passion for plants & gardening has grown (excuse the pun!) and culminated in the launch of Stocks & Green in 2021. Iben & Trevor hand-pick our range, featuring their favourite plants to grow from seed. Whether for cut flowers, vegetables or herbs - there is a mixture of old favourites and some new varieties that bring something unusual or different to your garden.
Our HQ in East Anglia features a series of trial gardens, where we test different varieties. We regularly grow many of the varieties we sell - so that we can photograph them, demonstrate how they grow and illustrate our website & catalogue.
Concerted efforts to be eco-friendly means that wherever possible we pack seeds & orders in materials which can be easily recycled (many can go directly onto your compost heap). As many materials as possible were recycled to start with.
We are a small independent business based in the UK, and we really do appreciate all the support we get. Every individual order will bring a squeal of joy, you have the power to do that!
Happy growing,
Stocks & Green :-)
Meet Iben
Iben started her career as a landscape architect in Copenhagen, studying for 7 years, her knowledge of plants is encyclopaedic. Later working for over 25 years in the publishing industry supplying specialist garden & plant photography to publishers around the World. It is highly likely if you have ever picked up a garden magazine it has featured photography supplied by Iben or her team. When not busy with Stocks & Green, Iben likes to work in her country garden in the beautiful Essex countryside and spend time with family in her greenhouse (that doubles as an outdoor living room & bar!
Meet Trevor
Trevor studied horticulture at Writtle agricultural college before starting his working life as an Estate Gardener. Whilst working as part of the team at Port Lympne Safari Park, he helped to look after the formal gardens, as well as grow young plants for the gardens and for sale in the on-site nursery. Trevor & Iben have worked together continuously since 2002, brought together by their passion for gardening. Trevor enjoys spending his time in his country garden in the Stour Valley, where he is working to establish a small wildflower meadow.
Our Team
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George
Helping out with all manner of things, but especially with photographing for our catalogue and website & picking orders when it's busy. George also helps to design our seed packets.
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Hannah
Head-honcho in our warehouse, overseeing the picking & packing of our orders, and helping with our regular emails and social media posts.
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Teresa
Did someone say speedy?! Teresa picks orders like she's late for a bus, always getting the orders picked quickly, so that they can leave our warehouse in the shortest possible time-frame.