Pentland Plants is an independent family business growing over 40 million bedding plant plugs each year for professional growers and parks departments throughout the UK.

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Growing since 1922

 The Spray family have been growers since just after the First World War when Joseph Spray started a market garden in Leamington Spa.

 His son Bob studied at Writtle college and worked at Kew Gardens before joining the local authority at Southend and afterwards moving to Kirkcaldy to manage their parks department. In 1957 he then stared his own business in Bonnyrigg growing Tomatoes and cut flower Chrysanths and his wife Irene had florist shops throughout the Lothians.

 Their son David and wife Hilda joined the company in the 60’s and it expanded to grow shrubs, bedding plants and a small retail shop. Bedding plants became the big thing in the early 80’s and they travelled all over the USA learning from the growers at the cutting edge of bedding plant plug production. They are now one of the largest producers in the UK.

 Their daughter Carolyn now manages the garden centre and Richard their son runs Pentland Biomass which offers biomass boilers and wood fuel.