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 August 2026
Plants we loveWorlds First Double Flowering Lavender!!
Tim wins the annual biggest-Broccoli competition with a Romanesco so beautiful he feels guilty eating it, and declares the Romans his secret weapon. Plus the world’s first double-flowering Lavenders bred right here in Australia, evergreen Hydrangeas that don’t turn into dead sticks in winter, and a Black Rose succulent growing against a brick wall in Harrington Grove that isn’t a rose at all.
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14 August 2026
Plants we loveHit In The Head By A Chickpea?
Tim's Blue Eyed Daisies and Lobelia border are doing the heavy lifting for winter colour, and Saied the fussy tiler turns up for an Ivory Curl tree he's been watching grow in Woodbine for months. Plus the biggest homegrown Savoy Cabbage Tim's ever seen, a Cauliflower salad at Mecca Café in Alexandria, and a rogue chickpea that ricocheted off a balustrade and hit a stranger in the back of the head.
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24 July 2026
Stories from the nurseryTulip Trees Burst Into Bloom!
Tim's Magnolia finally bloomed after years of dreaming about it as a kid. His chiropractor Josh nearly kills a Kentia palm with too much love and water. Plus spectacular Pincushion Proteas in colours never seen before, and a rare native tree called "Goodbye Sunshine" that almost nobody in Sydney knows about.
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