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
23 October 2026
Gardening adviceGrow Your Own Mangoes?
Tim opens with a quiet one - plant trees for shade and privacy, but wait long enough and you realise you’ve built a haven for birds. Plus Tricolour Star Jasmine for ground cover under trees, a 20-year-old Camden Mango tree covered in flowers, Giant Black Passionfruit back in stock, and finally the rain means it’s time to fertilise the lawn.
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16 October 2026
Stories from the nurseryI Want To Be Like Larry!!!
Tim discovers Larry also gets his name on a loaf at Epicure in Camden - and Larry’s loaf is bigger and apparently their favourite customer. Plus Arthur’s giant Greek tomatoes raising money for an African AIDS charity, Jimmy in his 90s who wouldn’t believe one Supertunia was enough (it was), and a proper guide to striking cuttings in river sand.
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9 October 2026
Plants we loveTurn Your Lawn Bright Green In 14 Days!!
Tim quietly planted a rare native tree across the road from the nursery years ago - Bachychiton Noel's Surprise, a grafted hybrid he bred himself - and it's now covered in spectacular pink spring flowers. His gift to Queen Street, still going long after he's compost. Plus lawn fertiliser that turns grass green in 14 days, Riberry fruit trees from Byron Bay, and rose season is peaking now - come before the best ones sell out.
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