Knoll Gardens - Specialist Grower of Grasses and Perennials

The Knoll Team

The award winning show garden and nursery is known nationally and internationally for its expertise in ornamental grasses, though many other plants are grown including perennials and elm trees

Knoll is staffed by a dedicated team headed by owner, Neil Lucas who has spent most of his life working with plants and gardens.

Neil is a passionate plantsman and has several gold medals to his name including eight consecutive Golds at Chelsea for his grasses.

Neils passion for plants may well be in his genes. His grandfather was heavily involved with the Delphinium society and having accompanied him to many national shows Neil couldn’t wait to start exhibiting in his own right.

Neil Lucas

In addition to travelling, especially in the USA, in search of new plants and ideas, Neil is also an accomplished and enthusiastic writer and speaker who runs regular masterclasses on his grass specialism from the gardens at Knoll, as well as lecturing both in the UK and overseas.

		Ross joined Knoll direct from school. His knowledge and enthusiasm for our range of plants, along with his undoubted expertise, means that he was the natural choice to manage the nursery and mail order operation. In his spare time Ross enjoys playing cricket for a local team, and was recently presented with an award for achievement by the Dorset Cricket League.
Ross

Pat (right) heads our ‘front of house’ team, who along with Angela (below) are the people most likely to help you if you visit the nursery, or talk to us on the phone. Apart from helping customers, their varied duties include some production, preparation of mail order, weeding, watering and stocking the sales area. Angela is also mainly responsible for the organisation of our seed range.
		Pat

Angela

Our maintenence department is actually only one man, but Gary (on the right) copes with enough to be a whole department. Luke (on the left), is training to be a gardener, so spends much of his time in the garden but helps Gary and also the nursery staff whenever and wherever he is needed.
		Luke and Gary

		Nick has his own landscape and garden maintenance business ‘Elements’ serving customers in the local area. So while not a full member of the Knoll team as such he does find some time to help out with larger landscape jobs and other occasional tasks like hedge cutting or mulching.
Nick


We are very pleased to have several volunteers who help out on the nursery or in the garden including Brenda, Karen, Renata and Anita.