Garden Express Australia

Garden Express Australia, online garden centre with a nursery in Victoria

Garden Express Australia presents itself as the country's largest online garden centre and operates a nursery and gift shop at 470 Monbulk Road, Monbulk, Victoria. Its model combines distance selling with shipping Australia-wide and in-person service at its premises, where it also offers a counter service.

The company describes itself as a mail order garden centre and states that its ordering system is designed to simplify garden planning. The team prepares and dispatches orders from Monday to Friday and backs purchases with a 100% money-back guarantee.

Catalogue of plants, bulbs and seeds

The range covers flowering bulbs, landscaping trees, shrubs and ground covers, indoor plants and succulents, roses and edible produce plants and seeds, as well as gardening tools and accessories. The offer is organised by season and suits different garden types, from small patios to large landscaped areas.

Featured categories include:

• Flowering bulbs: 1,119 varieties, from spring tulips to summer dahlias.
• Edible produce: 109 varieties.
• Perennials: 742 varieties.
• Roses: 382 varieties.
• Trees: 316 varieties.
• Shrubs & grasses: 1,322 varieties.
• Australian natives: 323 varieties.
• Seeds: 243 varieties.
• Indoor plants: 186 varieties.
• Succulents: 132 varieties.
• Wetland & pond plants: 19 varieties.
• Garden accessories: 220 products.

Seasonal offers and clearance products

The site features a special offers and clearance section with discounts of up to 50% on hippeastrum, up to 40% on bare-root trees and treelings, and a wide variety of dahlias in different shapes and sizes. Products in these promotions are supplied as dormant bulbs or tubers. The shop also listed a selection of seasonal new arrivals including hippeastrum, dahlias, gladioli, liliums and ornamental, fruit and nut trees.

Gardening advice and content

Garden Express publishes growing guides and practical advice articles. Available content includes comparisons of climbing plants for arches and obelisks (clematis, climbing roses, star jasmine, wisteria and native climbers), ideas for creating tropical-looking gardens in shaded areas with clivia, ferns and hostas, and lavender varieties for bee-friendly borders. These guides cover choosing species according to mature size, growth habit and flowering season.

Shipping, customer service and presence at fairs

The company ships Australia-wide and its customer service team is available Monday to Friday. The website announces its participation in the Floriade in Canberra from 12 September to 11 October 2026 and in the Bolobek Garden Fair in Macedon (Victoria) on 3 and 4 October 2026. Garden Express Australia is listed as a member of Nursery & Garden Industry Victoria and operates as a Van Berkel Distributors Pty Ltd company.

Location and contact

470 Monbulk Road, Monbulk, Victoria · Phone: 1300 606 242 · Email: info@gardenexpress.com.au · Hours: Monday to Friday 8:00 to 16:00; Saturdays 9:00 to 15:00; closed Sundays and public holidays