Pan Global Plants

Pan Global Plants Founded by Nick Macer, Pan-Global Plants is a specialist plant nursery located in the Severn Valley of Gloucestershire

Pan-Global provides an inspiring selection of the finest, most desirable and often rarest plants capable of growing on these isles. Many nurseries use the words ‘rare’ and ‘unusual’, but here we mean it in it’s true sense. Rare does not necessarily mean hard to grow; some may be a challenge but many are perfectly easy and can be immensely satisfying and rewarding. If you can't manage a visit to the nursery, plants are available by mail order.

For dwarf grassy fireworks, all you need is Eragrostis spectabilis. From Canada to Mexico, the Purple Lovegrass offers a...
04/08/2026

For dwarf grassy fireworks, all you need is Eragrostis spectabilis. From Canada to Mexico, the Purple Lovegrass offers a haze of purple-red around your ankles in late summer as you skip gaily through the fields/back garden. A very drought resistant toughy enjoying well drained soils in full sun; lapping up the heat in summers such as this.

Not autumn colour, but a new shoot on the new hybrid oak, Quercus 'Notendale'. A hybrid of the heat and drought tolerant...
02/08/2026

Not autumn colour, but a new shoot on the new hybrid oak, Quercus 'Notendale'. A hybrid of the heat and drought tolerant Mexican Q. rysophylla and Q. rubra, the Red Oak from E North America, this should have a bright future here in the UK. Very few available...

07/07/2026

Here we go again! My largest Agave ovatifolia from seed collected in Mexico in 2009, with a rosette 2m across, is finally in full flower mode. Almost the last one left 😥. Come and kneel before it's magnificence in the Pan Global Plants garden! 🙇🏻‍♂️

I now have plants available for sale, genetically identical to the parent, of this most humungous of Agave; A. atroviren...
30/06/2026

I now have plants available for sale, genetically identical to the parent, of this most humungous of Agave; A. atrovirens. So, unlike the wrongly named trash in the trade under this name, these are the real deal.
Native to the high altitude cloud forests of Central Mexico this absolute beast can reach up to 4m across the rosette, with an inflorescence 7.5m tall. Better still, it's perfectly growable in the milder parts of the UK, even to flowering size, like this specimen in Cornwall which gave rise to my babies here. Imagine a few of these in central London or in various coastal locations!

Despite the Mediterranean heat, my man Landscape & Garden Care 🌳 and I toddled off to Wiltshire on Friday to visit David...
29/06/2026

Despite the Mediterranean heat, my man Landscape & Garden Care 🌳 and I toddled off to Wiltshire on Friday to visit David Morrison, where I designed the arboretum and garden border plantings some years ago and have provided huge numbers of special things over the years. Suffice to say, it is deeply pleasing to see so many of my babies doing so well under his care.
First up is Rosa cymosa; my collection from Guizhou, SW China. The tiniest of flowers make it look like another member of the Rosaceae. Please swipe...

Rosa cymosa doing a Pyracantha impression

Genista aetnensis, the Mount Etna broom. Loving life in poor soil and full sun.

My collection from NE Mexico of what is known in cultivation as Pinus montezumae, but despite a vast amount of time in cultivation, taxonomists have not come up with a consensus as to what this fully hardy, grey, stiff needled entity is. Pinus montezumae in Mexico is usually green, with drooping needless and not fully hardy. These trees represent a very rare reintroduction of the classic 'British' form of Pinus aff. montezumae. In some ways it is close to the related P. hartwegii, but not...

Pinus aff. montezumae, doing fabulously well after not so very many years and loving the greensand soil.

Pinus aff. montezumae again, showing part of the group planting, where we put in at least 5 trees (can't remember, maybe more!)

My collection of the very rare Cercis griffithii from Southern Tajikistan, very near the Afghan border. All plants of this species in the wild had very glaucous foliage, making a nonsense of the recently named/marketed 'Blue Lagoon' clone of this species from Belgium.

My collection of Pinus strobiformis from Durango, Mexico, with its long, chunky cones. Great to see this coning now.

Pinus strobiformis again, showing its glaucous foliage.

My collection of the vigorous Alnus subcordata from the Hyrcanian forests of SE Azerbaijan, very near the Iranian border. This species makes huge specimens in the wild, well over 30m tall and with excellent crown form and characterful fluted trunks.

Hardly ever seen in cultivation, this is Tilia dasystyla subsp. caucasica, with its conspicuous and distinctly long, almost white floral b

A self sown seedling species/species-hybrid rose that conveniently put itself right next to one of the walls here. It's ...
19/06/2026

A self sown seedling species/species-hybrid rose that conveniently put itself right next to one of the walls here. It's turned out rather well with its first flowering this year, with huge heads of fragrant flower up to 40cm across and all new vegetative growth saturated deep maroon, which contrasts very nicely with the flowers and is pretty darned striking when it first wakes up in spring. Comments from rose experts welcome...

09/06/2026

Whilst Quasimodo makes sure all the little kids can't get to sleep on a Monday evening, the magnificent Salvia candelabrum clump is also belting it out at home. Must get this propagated and out for sale.

Inspiring views out front yesterday evening, with the diminutive but highly desirable Ferula arrigonii flowering again a...
05/06/2026

Inspiring views out front yesterday evening, with the diminutive but highly desirable Ferula arrigonii flowering again after many years. This fully perennial species is definitely not an annual repeat flowerer and this particular specimen last flowered some years ago, though I grow it for its foliage alone. Flowering is merely a surprising bonus.

Sold out at present, but there are lots of babies coming on at the nursery.

25/05/2026

Dominating one end of the Pan Global' garden, this Black Sea giant is always a highlight of May here..

Spring foliage on the rarely seen Chinese horse chestnut Aesculus chinensis var. wilsonii (aka A. wilsonii). Closely rel...
28/04/2026

Spring foliage on the rarely seen Chinese horse chestnut Aesculus chinensis var. wilsonii (aka A. wilsonii). Closely related to the Himalayan Indian horse chestnut, A. indica and similarly flowers in summer rather than spring; it is immune to the modern maladies associated with the common horse chestnut, A. hippocastanum. The foliage is also highly refined in comparison and particularly attractive.

Address

The Walled Garden, The Green
Frampton On Severn
GL27EX

Opening Hours

Wednesday 11am - 5pm
Thursday 11am - 5pm
Friday 11am - 5pm
Saturday 11am - 5pm
Sunday 11am - 5pm

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01452 741641

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