Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Our partnership goes beyond our mutual knowledge and experience of horticulture; it is a sharing of values and principles. Kew’s ethos is governed around the principle that ‘plants matter’ – be it for health, for pleasure, for beauty or for life, making plants matter is the focus of everything they do. It was a natural progression to combine our shared passion for plants, from propagation to protection, by designing the finest possible growing environment in each of our greenhouses.
Working Together
The Making of a Partnership
In the early 2000s at The Professional Gardener’s Guild Conference, Tom Hall, Owner of Alitex, was invited to talk about our Messenger glasshouse, which caught the attention of Greg Redwood, Head of Great Glasshouses at Kew. Greg’s interest in the Alitex product sparked a genuine relationship which has grown into the partnership we have today.
It is worth mentioning that Greg Redwood is a die-hard timber greenhouse fan that was won over by the fact that an aluminium Alitex greenhouse, especially the Messenger design, emulates the wood look so expertly without any of the drawbacks.
