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
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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17 July 2026
Stories from the nurseryHave You Seen Danny Deck Chair?
Tim finally makes it to Bellingen — the town Danny Deckchair put on his bucket list. Markets, a chilli coffee, a giant Camphor Laurel, and a free range rooster walking the main street like it owns it. Then Dorrigo in the freezing cold, saved by his Onkaparinga blanket and a perfect lamb rack.
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11 July 2026
Stories from the nurseryPink Tulip Trees? What Are They?
Tim tracks down a pair of old concrete pots on Marketplace and remembers John Bandiera - the Italian pot maker from Dural who only started delivering after Tim sent flowers and a love letter to his wife. Plus Magnolias flowering without leaves, "Cousin It" spilling over retaining walls in Gregory Hills, and a Pink Cascade Lillypilly at St Peter's Primary that nobody plants as a tree but should.
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