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
11 November 2026
Stories from the nurseryHappy Hibiscus Have Arrived?
Denise in a purple shirt turns out to be in the Camden Evening View Club - 25 years a member, still a little bit wild. Tim visits 92-year-old Jimmy in Ingleburn who only became a real gardener recently and now can't stop planting. Plus a Hibiscus shortage nobody saw coming, Wettasoil for gardens that repel water under eaves, and Tim's grafted Brachychiton "Jerilderie Red" flowering in Mawson Park - descended from a single tree found at a school in Jerilderie.
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6 November 2026
Stories from the nurseryHydrangeas Make You Happy!
Gabrielle drives from Albion Park with her grandson Ethan - fresh off his HSC yesterday - to find out why Tim's potting mix is the best. Tim gives her the honest answer. Then Don Gregory, who owned Camden Garden Centre in the 80s, gifted Tim a 30-year-old Balloon Cactus he'd been growing in a pot - Tim sold the pups for $300 and gave it all back to Don at Christmas. Plus Tim's case for letting homeowners plant their own street trees, and a horticulturist position vacant after 30 years of service.
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30 October 2026
Plants we loveHow To Grow Blueberries?
Tim spots a flash of red across the cemetery on Broughton Street - an Illawarra Flame tree he planted 7 years ago has come into bloom for the first time, right next to the school where his boys went. Plus Hydrangea season arriving with a strict rule for Western Sydney - morning sun only or they'll burn, a garlic harvest turning urgent after rain and heat, and a new batch of Blueberries that are already fruiting.
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