Welcome to Wack’s Wicked Plants, a specialist carnivorous plants nursery, open by appointment only, with a big selection of carnivorous plants online.
For care leaflets, please click here Care Leaflets
If you want to see us in person, we do flower shows, have open weekends, and are open by appointment. Billy the rescue lurcher will be on the nursery to meet and greet. Have a look at our schedule Shows and open weekends
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About us
We are a small, North-Yorkshire based, specialist nursery, and we grow, display and sell Carnivorous Plants at Shows and Fairs and at the nursery. We started as a backyard nursery in Knaresborough, and moved to the beautiful village of Scampston in 2015 to enable us to grow the nursery. When we started up, our shows were mainly in Yorkshire, but we have now gone further afield. We display our plants in several RHS Flower Shows as well as our local Harrogate Flower Shows and the Great Yorkshire Show. We are particularly proud of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show Gold medal at our first attempt! By now we have 3 Chelsea Gold Medals and many more RHS golds. To achieve what we said we wanted right from the start (Best in Show at the Great Yorkshire Show) was brilliant.
Peter Walker (Wack) and his long suffering assistant (and wife) Helleentje, run the business, together with Billy the rescue lurcher. Peter started many years ago with a love of plants in general, but always with a special interest in unusual and/or exotic varieties. After stumbling across a nursery selling pitcher plants (while on holiday in Whitby!), we caught the carnivorous bug!
We sell our plants at shows and fairs – for specific shows and dates see ‘Shows & Fairs’ -, and online. We are happy for people to visit the nursery, but strictly by appointment only, please.
Other than plants we also sell photo’s, T-shirts, compost, pots and other sundries, which are available in our online shop.
We Provide…..
- Care and advice with every plant sold that is easy to follow.
- Carefully packaged plants to ensure they arrive in the same exceptional condition they left us in.
- We create the ideal compost for all your carnivorous plants and sell it in a variety of pack sizes.
This place exists thanks to regular controlled burns - whether natural or controlled, burns are absolutely essential in a pinewood forest. It helps to control the undergrowth that would otherwise choke out other native species (I.e. pine seedlings, pitcher plant, flowers, etc.) Also some pine species need fire for seed germination, or for the cones to open up. Also, fire suppression would cause a build up of undergrowth (fuel) in the forest, and when (not if) it does catch fire it can becomes an out-of-control forest fire which can completely destroy the forest, and surrounding communities. Controlled burns help to prevent this from occurring.
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This place exists thanks to regular controlled burns - whether natural or controlled, burns are absolutely essential in a pinewood forest. It helps to control the undergrowth that would otherwise choke out other native species (I.e. pine seedlings, pitcher plant, flowers, etc.) Also some pine species need fire for seed germination, or for the cones to open up. Also, fire suppression would cause a build up of undergrowth (fuel) in the forest, and when (not if) it does catch fire it can becomes an out-of-control forest fire which can completely destroy the forest, and surrounding communities. Controlled burns help to prevent this from occurring.