Value proposition

Your Home and Garden Heaven

Arboretum is an award-winning garden centre and lifestyle retailer. The family business, founded in rural County Carlow in 1977 by horticulturist Rachel Doyle, is today a €13m turnover enterprise employing 200 people in three locations.

Arboretum Home and Garden heaven, the flagship store, occupies ten acres at Leighlinbridge, County Carlow. Arboretum Kilquade is the brand’s second garden centre. Acquired in 2015, it is located at the former National Garden Exhibition Centre near Kilcoole, County Wicklow. Arboretum Urban Green opened in May 2023 on the first floor of iconic Dublin bookshop Chapters, located on Parnell Street close to the Mary Street shopping area.

Arboretum creates destination garden and lifestyle centres characterised by a wide range of plants including specimen plants and trees, along with gardening tools, seeds, bulbs, treatments, garden furniture and Weber barbecues. Each one has a high-quality in-house restaurant.

The Arboretum experience is also available to customers anywhere in the Republic of Ireland via www.arboretum.ie.

Arboretum Home and Garden Heaven, Leighlinbridge, was named the Retail Excellence Ireland Retailer of the Year 2021/22.

Arboretum Kilquade was named Retail Excellence Ireland Garden Store of the Year 2022/23.