Campbelltown's garden centre since 1983
Come for Tim's Best Potting mix and the plants, become part of our story!
We have been helping gardeners have success for over 40 years here in Campbelltown. Now gardeners travel from all over NSW to buy our products.
Tim's community
100,000 gardeners. Plenty of stories.
Tim posts new arrivals, planting advice, customer stories, and the occasional tree he spotted on the way to get a Manoosh. Follow along — it's never boring.
“Put them outside on a table, where they get morning sun, and they will flower all winter.”
— Tim Pickles
Meet Tim
Forty years of getting it right
Come for Tim's Best Potting mix and the plants, become part of our story!
See Tim's Best Potting Mix →We have been helping gardeners have success for over 40 years here in Campbelltown. Now gardeners travel from all over NSW to buy our products. They are not available on line, you need to come and visit us.
Here at Tim's Garden Centre we want to help you grow better plants, so we've got a range of Worlds Best Gardening Products, to ensure you have success. You might not even own a garden, you might grow all your plants in pots. We love that, if you grow plants, it makes us feel better.
Come for a drive, come and see what all the fuss is about. Cheers Tim
Tim Pickles — Founder, Tim's Garden Centre
What we sell
Nothing else like it.
Tim's Best Potting Mix
People drive from all over NSW for this. There is a reason.
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Tim's Rapid Results Lawn Food
Turn your lawn bright green in 14 days. Turbo charged.
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Tim's Fast Food
Our secret. Why all our plants look so green and healthy.
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From the nursery
Tim's articles
21 June 2026
Stories from the nurseryDid You Like The Cutting I Gave You?
Tim meets Sandra Hardy — a retired citrus expert and plant collector from Annandale who judges the Easter Show and makes her own potting mix. Plus a giant $9.95 avocado that's nearly the size of Tim's head, a secret winery cafe with incredible food, and a chicken recipe that'll make you want a lemon tree
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26 May 2026
Stories from the nurseryHave You Ever Met Someone Like This?
Tim accidentally drives into an amazing nursery in Terry Hills and meets Andrew Goldsmith — restauranteur turned nurseryman with great hair and million dollar teeth. Plus Zygo Cactus in 11 colours has arrived, and Tim discovers Bob's secret garden oasis in Ingleburn — built entirely from cuttings by someone who insists he's not a gardener.
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14 May 2026
Plants we loveGrow Your Own Bottle Tree!!!!
Tim finally reveals his secret love for Lobelia, lectures modern gardeners on patience, and discovers a magnificent Queensland Bottle Tree hiding in the grounds of St John's Church in Camden. Also — everything you're doing wrong with your Cyclamen.
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