Coolings The Gardeners Garden Centre

At Coolings, we are passionate about plants and they have remained at the core of our business. We are proud that over 65% of our plants are home grown at our extensive on-site nursery at Coolings, Rushmore Hill in Knockholt. We offer a comprehensive selection of plants (one of the largest in the UK), and our customers trust our plant quality and staff expertise, making us their garden centre of choice. We live by our motto that 'The Experience is Growing'. We value our customers, offering many benefits to our Coolings Family Members.

Our Company started in Chislehurst in 1913. Seventeen year old Arthur Cooling, (the Grandfather of Paul Cooling), started growing market garden crops as a part-time occupation. He purchased one acre of land at the rear of Chislehurst High Street in 1920 and it was here that the first second-hand greenhouses were built. In 1955 Michael joined his father Arthur to form the partnership trading as Coolings Nurseries. The first Garden Centre trading commenced in the same year with the sale of fertilisers, insecticides, peat & compost.

However, our phone lines will be open on Saturday 16th January at The Gardener's Garden Centre. Please call 01959 532269. Please do give us a call and our team will discuss our forthcoming vacancies and schedule a telephone interview. Details of vacancies for this spring, will be available below from Wednesday 13th January 2021. Occasionally positions do arise, so if you have any relevant experience in production nursery or in the retail garden sector and would like to join the Coolings team, we would still like to hear from you.

Each of our garden centres has a production nursery, the largest is our extensive production nursery behind Arthurs Restaurant at Coolings The Gardener's Garden Centre, Rushmore Hill, Knockholt, this covers an area of 4.5 acres. At Coolings Wych Cross Garden Centre we have restored the rose nursery and have begun growing thousands of plants on-site these can be seen from the terrace of our Hybrid Tea Room, the smallest of our production nurseries is at Coolings Potted Garden Nursery in Bearsted near Maidstone.