Architectural Plants Cafe in Horsham

Lovely staff and a gorgeous selection of plants

It was a total pleasure dealing with AP; with the lovely and knowledgeable garden designer Debbie and with the whole planting team who were wonderful - professional, and courteous. The trees are really good specimens and have transformed our garden. Thank you. Will V.

We approached Architectural Plants Ltd to advise us on how to deal with the planting layout for our new build garden. Our designer, Amy, planned our garden around trees and shrubs. It is only now, after they have been planted, can we really appreciate her expertise. The installation was excellent. Staff were very experienced. They came, dug, planted, irrigated and left the site immaculate. Nothing was too much trouble. Follow up plant care included advice on feeding, watering , mulching and pruning. We would thoroughly recommend them.

It has been a pleasure working with this company. They have some excellent people where nothing is too much trouble. We contacted them to find someone who could give us an interesting garden in a new build house. We met with Zac who came up with a simple, low maintenance design which met our needs perfectly. The installation team, led by Freddie were great, their attention to detail was superb. They left us with a beautiful new garden. It was lovely to meet people who are passionate about their work. We would recommend this company every time.

We met with many garden designers before we found Architectural Plants. We're so glad that we waited for the right fit! Our end to end experience was excellent. From our visits to their beautiful nursery, to working with the design/installation team, and even resolving a few challenges - everything was top notch. Thank you Debbie, Freddie, Mattia and the extended team. We're so happy with your work and our garden.

Friendly, professional, and do what they say they will do, on time! Beautiful plants and great workmanship - so easy and pleasant to deal with!!

The service I received by Sophie was short of amazing. Not only was she able to answer my queries about a Pinus Mugo I was looking to source. I was provided with options and images, plus she kindly resent it all when my WhatsApp timed message setting stupidly deleted them. The service was amazing and I was very impressed given this was the first time I had contacted them.

I bought a tree last summer which was sadly caught by the frost. I got back in touch with Architectural Plants who very kindly replaced it for me. A big thanks to Sophie and the team. We will be back for sure!

We had an unsightly gap along our north facing fence that needed filling, so after making an appointment and talking to Sarah about what we wanted, she helped us find the perfect plant. She was considerate to our specification, recommended and showed us a variety of suitable plants, and could answer all our questions. Also wanting delivery and planting, we thought we were in for a bit of a wait, however the delivery team contacted me for a much closer delivery and planting date, which I was very happy about. The chaps that came out and planted our new Eriobotrya Japonica were super professional, efficient, tidy and knowledgeable. An all around great service by all we dealt with. We’ll defiantly be back!

The Architectural Plant nursery is simply amazing. Plants of every different type, size and origin, sourced, grown and nurtured by knowledgeable and helpful people. Full marks particularly to garden designer Amy who skillfully planned the ideal planting solution for a rather neglected area of our garden and then arranged for one of her friendly efficient teams to come along and save us the job of planting everything! Couldn't recommend these people more highly.

I had a lovely visit, such a wide variety of amazing plants and the staff were all so helpful! Got lots of ideas for my new garden.

Very informative & helpful. Lovely selection

High quality plants and staff is great.

Superb nursery for serious gardeners. The selection of niwaki is fabulous. They also have many interesting and unusual shrubs and trees from around the world. The team are very helpful and knowledgeable and give excellent advice about after care. Visiting is by appointment but that makes it a lot less busy so there is plenty of time to look around unhurried and work ideas through.

We live in Cambridge but had used Architectural Plants for an area of our garden when we lived in West Sussex. Ŵe were greatly assisted with the selection of trees for our courtyard and first floor terrace, suitable to the conditions and climate. Having selected and purchased our trees we had been told to expect delivery in October or November but were lucky enough to have the delivery scheduled for early September. The terrace and courtyard are such that the 1m square pots and 7 trees needed to be craned over the house. The whole operation was done with safety in mind and the care and attention with which the trees were sited and potted could not be faulted. A watering system was put in to ensure the trees thrived and everyone involved was courteous and conscientious. I cannot recommend Guy and his team more highly and will be using them again for our upper terrace and remainder of the first floor terrace.

Stunning array of plants and trees. Well kept with friendly staff.

He may have lost a little bit of Personality in its move but it is still a wonderful place

Fantastic plants, been a customer for many years. But had a very poor welcome today from a young lady who just would not listen. Consequently didn't buy what I intended

Wow. What a wonderful place to visit. Like walking into paradise. Super people. Can not recommend this venue more highly. If you seek long term planting, planting for future generations, thus is the venue for you.

Architectural Plants is basically perfect 👌 We used to shop by mail order punctuated by the occasional trip from South London to various Sussex locations 20 years ago but strangely randomly they and we have landed up living 5 miles apart. Our garden enjoys agapanthus, olive, myrtle and many tropical beauties from this phenomenal nursery where the love of plants shines through. My husband has attended both the creative maintenence and niwaka pruning courses here and loved them both.

What a fantastic place! We only went to get some ideas, but left with purchasing some great plants and trees for our garden. Lovely staff, extremely knowledgeable and interpersonal. We'll worth visiting. 😃

Many,many amazing quality plants and trees

Really great service with knowledgable staff (thanks Flo).

Tried twice to visit this garden centre , not very welcoming.

Stunning plants, very helpful staff - worth a visit and definitely a purchase

This cafe is part and parcel of the Nursery, approached by a long drive from the A.29 just below Adversane village and 2 miles North of Pulborough. The Nursery itself has a good display of somewhat expensive but lovely plants, tress and shrubs, and have supplied the excellent new Station Gardens project in Billingshurst. The cafe serves good snacks together with hot and cold drinks.

Huge selection of beautifull healthy plants, easy access, mostly undercover, helpful staff, mostly outdoor plants, nice warm cosy tea room. Had tea and cakes excellent quality.

4.5..... Lovely ladies that work here! Beautiful setting. Cake amazing!! And I know cake!! Sandwiches good size and yummy!!

Dogs welcome, so a great venue to visit with my daughter and her dogs for a coffee and cake or a light lunch. For cosiness try to bag a seat in the wooden chalet, but if you wrap up warm in winter, the cafe tables in the nursery greenhouse offer a light and airy space.Menu is stylish and contemporary at a very reasonable price. The food is delicious and wholesome, the coffee very good and they will tweak the menu a little to accommodate, say a child, who wants a glass of milk with their lunch.A word to the wise; card or contactless payments only, no cash.

Excellent plants. Extremely friendly staff in cafe and very dog friendly

Today I visited the cafe on site at AP which has been set up really well, to bring the outdoors in, but whilst leaving the cold outside!Great for meetings and can see this being even more popular in the Summer once the doors are opened.

There are certainly a lot of good reviews regarding this establishment, I'm sorry but my experience isn't in agreement. On my first visit there I ordered two coffees and put £10 in payment on the counter. It was refused as it was pointed out they don't accept cash! What? Embarrassingly, I had to ask my friend to pay using his card. I've travelled in fourteen countries in the last twelve months and I NEVER came across any shop/café etc ever refusing cash. Is this something new? Anyway, the coffee was very expensive £6 something for two! They got the order wrong and served up, in my case, luke warm and without a saucer! Well, I personally would never return or recommend. Perhaps I was unlucky, but if my cash is not acceptable, then that's a very good reason to go elsewhere!

Really original venue..loved being amongst the plants and having a coffee. The items in the shop are interesting, eco and well sourced. Overall atmosphere very chilled and friendly. Highly recommend a visit.

Nice little café and very reasonably priced amongst some of the most over-priced plants in the UK; staff warm and welcoming; coffee excellent; only had cake but will return for their dish of the day

Lovely creamy hot chocolate. Brownies are nice gooie. The trees and shrubs are quite stunning with a range of sizes. Need to go and take a long look in day light. The entrance is opposite the brewery not the college entrance.

Didn’t realise the nursery was open to the public until we went in to try the cafe. Lovely little cafe recently extended. Food really good. Dogs welcome. But it was a bit chilly, so wrap up warm.

Visited here a few times. Always a great experience. Very dog friendly. A unique setting. It's like taking coffee at Kew. Good coffee, food and great service. Fully recommended.

This is an amazing place to go - if you want to purchase plants, shrubs or trees, have a lunch time nibble or elevens at 11 or even tea at 3 we just love to visit this place. The staff are incredibly helpful and. HAPPY which makes a change this day and age. Thank you all and see you very soon Jacky, Greville, Cassanova and Taittinger

This is a nursery unlike any other I've seen, around every corner you'll see another plant to make you go, "wow". There are pricepoints to suit all budgets but you will need to save up your pennies for the big impressive statement pieces. They have a very useful traffic light system for hardiness and provide a lot of information about the plants for sale. The café is very cosy inside and although it is too chilly now to use the outside seating (despite the warm blankets provided) it's clear to see it would be a lovely spot to enjoy in the summer. There were two unisex toilets of a decent size in case you're caught short.

Quite a good range of good-quality snacks and very light lunch meals, coffee and tea. Reasonable service, fairly quick and servers willing and sociable. Indoor section is very cramped (and can feel quite humid), though an extension is in progress; outdoor section is set among the (ferociously expensive!) plants - a nice touch with pleasant, relaxed atmosphere. Prices definitely on the steep side, though, as seems normal with most of these contemporary cafes.The layout of the nursery itself is very ingenious and versatile.

A dog friendly cafe in the heart of a tropical rain forest in the middle of West Sussex and they sell plants too. Great coffee, lovely, attentive staff, chilled music. An oasis well worth a visit. Oh! and they also sell chilled cider and sparkling wine.

Lunch in a beautiful setting Excellent food Welcoming and friendly staff A lovely way to spend time catching up with a friend

From start to finish our journey with Architectural Plants has been a great experience, thanks to our garden designer Amy and her brilliant team Matt, James and Ryma who have between them transformed our ordinary garden into a paradise. Architectural Plants are a highly professional company who go over and above all expectations can’t recommend them highly enough. Mina & Ray Ferring

This place is an absolute joy! Lovely kind staff, breathtaking plants, great food! Take your wallet, and read the plant descriptions, they are a delight and will make you laugh! Hedgehogy things!

Very pleasant place for a start and all good mid morning bites and coffees. Pleasant place to drop in to and has been visited again by several of us.

The staff are friendly the food is very good the coffe is good also which is rare Great seating places Fab scones and cakesLoads of incredible plants to look at It’s like walking round a different world Brilliant food cafe place hidden gem and there aren’t many

I have wanted to visit this unique establishment ever since I became interested in exotic plants about 20 years ago. Fortunately, last week my Wife and I were on holiday in Sussex from our home in Essex, so we took the opportunity. We were NOT disappointed. In fact this very fine and continuing to be enlarged exotic centre EXCEEDED my high expectations. It is superb, and very clean and tidy, with toilets that are a pleasure to sit in.The colonial style centrepiece of the Design Office is a splendid building, and the nearby café with inside and outside seating, provides a very relaxing environment in which to enjoy the tasty refreshment amongst the “jungle” type plants.The immaculate polytunnels which are open to visitors, are huge with safe, flat concrete paths, and all filled with immaculate, well labelled plants, greatly assisted by the traffic light hardiness system. Very useful information boards are on site, with leaflets being freely available.Fortunately, there is NONE of the usual, overbearing, garden centre tat here.I was pleased to meet the well built, industrious Guy Watts who now runs the business with the founder Angus White, when we called in briefly, just before closing, the day before our much longer visit. All the staff that we met were friendly, helpful and knowledgeable which added to our enjoyable experience.In addition, we met and chatted to the skilful artist, David Klein who was chiselling a horse sculpture. From his outdoor covered working area, we continued walking, upwards to the lake and sat down briefly on the most welcome seat whilst “soaking up” the splendid view.The site is easily found being on Stane Street, North Heath, Pulborough, RH20 1DJ.There is a useful introductory short video on the Architectural Plants' web site which gives an indication of the layout of the large site. Many thanks to Angus, Guy and your splendid Team for your efforts in creating and maintaining THIS EXOTIC MASTERPIECE.

After visiting Pulborough for work, stopped for an enjoyable lunch of a Sussex cheddar and chutney sandwich with smashing salad, washed down with a hot cappuncino. Lovely surroundings around the cafe makes the experience extra special. Will definitely return.

We often come to this place as we are planning our new country garden. We brought friends and decided to try the cafe. This is a hidden gem as it’s situated in a conservatory with lots of plants and trees. You feel like you are in the Caribbean as there is so much foliage! The food is excellent and the coffees are great. Definitely worth a visit even if you don’t have a garden, a little bit of paradise in the south downs.

Went for a coffee for the first time last week what a delight. Most unusual and cosy table set up with quite a degree of privacy. The coffee was excellent as was the brownie, service quick and friendly cheery staff. After strolled round the plants we walked round the lake and sat on a bench in the sun, could not hear the traffic on the A29 and watched the swallows swooping, how lovely and so close to home. Try it and feel good.

A beautiful and fantastically stocked nursery.

Stopped here for tea n cake. Lovely big pot of tea. Lovely cherry bakewell. Be warned they don’t take cash cards only as no bank in the vicinity anymore. Also not open Sundays.

This is a very nice place to go for a wonderful cup of tea and a fantastic brownie. The plant are really interesting and the lake is beautiful. Well worth a visit.

Although it takes a long long time to order and they don’t appear to take cash it’s worth the wait....lovely lunch and wonderful hot chocolate

Our 'coffee group' tries to visit a different coffee shop, preferably with some photographic interest, every fortnight. This was our first time here but will become a firm favourite - great coffee, sandwiches, and things to photograph later. Beautiful surroundings, among young trees, like a jungle. We'll be back.

Lovely, friendly, cosy cafe with really lovely staff. The cakes were wonderful, as was the coffee. We were in there for ages chatting and never felt like we should leave because we had finished our food & drinks. Would recommend the sausage rolls

Great plans and fantastically helpful and knowledgeable staff. Worth a visit even if you don't have a garden.

I would highly recommend a visit to the café it's so relaxing. If you are a plant lover you will love it here, it's like a breath of fresh air.

Really nice soup, sandwiches and cakes. Great cafe and some really interesting plants to look at. I prefer the conservatory to the main cafe which can get a bit crowded. Good for celeb spotting as well!

Tables and chairs are set within a vast greenhouse and as you sit amongst the tropical plants the similarity to the med makes it easy to slip into holiday relaxed mode. Great coffe and scrumptious light lunches make it an ideal lunch stop.

Great place to go for coffee or lunch, you can sit in the garden with your own private space, great cakes and coffee, staff very helpful,

Lovely small cafe area within a beautiful setting for a wander. Coffee and a sandwich good quality, cakes look amazing

I drive past AP every day to work and last week, stopped and had a look around. Followed by on the Saturday taking Sarah with me and we went to the cafe. The setting of many of the tables in amongst the large and exotic undercover planting, creates a good atmosphere. We only had a lovely cup of loose leaf tea and a slice of scruffy cake, as we were on our way home. Great tea and cake, served to our table. The plants do take centre stage and are very well cared for and in excellent condition. Yes they are more expensive than your chain garden centre, but the size and quality justifies this. We are going to suggest to my mother & father in law to visit as it has level access all around the site

Vast array of professional display healthy plants ready for that large garden makeover. Limited option cafe with modern fashionable 'on slate' tasty food at tasty prices! Thoughtfully integrated seating and £££ trees. Great for the meet with the garden designer and your planting expert.

You will probably pass this cafe without even knowing its there, situated within the Architectural tree center you are seated in little tree alcoves which give it a secluded feeling whilst eating.Food quality is great ( a limited menu) and the service is good.Defiantly one to pop into if you are in the area and the trees center is very interesting.

Our first visit here... if you love plants then you will love it here! You may not be able to afford them though, I have never seen such high prices, but they did look excellent quality.The tables are in among the plants, which feels lovely! It was a hot day, so a bit uncomfortable, but must not complain!The menu is really interesting, and the food is freshly prepared. The ploughmans was massive!Will go again...

Good selection of freshly prepared food, good to find somewhere a bit different. Friendly staff and like the location. Garden centre is also excellent.

This is a great café, the food is very good, but the 'outside' seating among the plants is really lovely, (but undercover) and so different from the usual. The food was sumptuous, we had the ploughmans and it was great, extremely large and very well priced. The cakes are excellent as well. - And the garden center has some spectacular plants

Awful coffee for £2.80,watery and nasty!Artisan style,food and drink,all over priced along with the plants!

Lovely setting for the cafe amongst all the wonderful plants. Friendly staff and good menu for snacks etc

Darling cafe, with gorgeous healthy & well portioned food. Will definitely be back again soon. The staff were helpful and always there if and when you needed anything.

We visited here for the first time and I was amazed! The Nursery itself whilst being a commercial enterprise is stunning.ALL the plants and trees are obviously loved and cared for, organisation is amazing and everything has little labels (some with cracking description from someone with a wicked sense of humour!) Take time to wander round the lake - you may see all the tadpoles like we did! The café is set amongst the plants - under cover but in the air. One of the few places where I have been fortunate enough to eat my lunch surrounded by wild Goldfinches! Home made sausage rolls and quiches are exceptional and staff friendly and approachable. Cannot recommend enough!

We visited on an unseasonally cold Saturday. It is much warmer within the café rather than in the covered area outside but the space is very limited, especially for a wheelchair user like me. I imagine in warmer weather it would be delightful to sit amongst the plants in the covered area outside. To stay warm we ordered the delicious pumpkin, coconut and lime soup with a slice of lovely soft seedy bread. We also treated ourselves to a cake and a hot coffee and tea. All were excellent, as was the friendly service.

We have visited a few times for coffee and cakes. There are also ‘light bites’ and soup on the menu.Superb coffee and beautifully made top quality cakes with friendly, attentive service - what more can you want!?The inside seating area is relatively small and intimate with more seating outdoors (when the weather permits!).Another benefit is the opportunity to browse many unusual, exotic and very well kept trees, plants etc. Beware though.....we ended up spending enough on a tree for hundreds of coffees and cakes!

Ok so not knowing what to expect on a cold rainy day for a first visit, was warm, smelt lovely, a little cramped, would have liked more choice of hot light lunch options but quality of what we had was very good, lovely coffee, great ambiance if your happy to sit close to other diners but will be back, definitely want to try in the warmer months where sitting outside is an option, surroundings beautiful, noticed by 1.15 was running out of hot food options on a cold day sadly but again everything we saw served looked delicious, only way for this little gem is up and recommend if you don't want a greasy spoon or generic garden centre cafe slop, thumbs up....

Whether you sit outside or inside the cafe is very pleasant and comfortable. The food is very good and reasonably priced.

Within this inspiring architectural plant nursery is a delightful but small cafe....pleasant staff. Selection of cakes.

We called in here to see some of the plants and wound up in the cafe for a snack. There were tables outside the cafe, in among the spectacular foliage, and we will definitely be back to sample the atmosphere again.

Fantastic selection of plants and a little gem of a cafe not to be missed.

Enjoyed a lovely cup of tea and cake in this tropical environment! Tea served in glass teapot and attractive cups and saucers. We sat inside the cafe which has glass windows overlooking the palm trees which gave a nice tropical feel. We could have sat outside the cafe actually amongst the palms but as it was a dull, wet day we decided to stay indoors. Service was good and attentive. Table was clean. Friendly environment.

Such a lovely way to enjoy seeing a wide selection of plants and have a lovely cup of coffee and cake. Staff are friendly and there are some amazing sculptures. Well worth a visit in you are in the area.

Visited here with my hubby & I have to say it’s truly a hidden gem, the food is just so delicious, fresh & healthy. Very reasonably priced. Look forward to returning soon.