Technical Clothing for Serious Gardeners

Performance Gardenwear

Gardening Clothes for Real Gardeners

Technical Clothing for Serious Gardeners

Performance Gardenwear

Gardening Clothes for Real Gardeners

Gardening clothes for real gardeners

Genus is the world’s only brand of high-performance, technical clothing specially designed by gardeners for gardeners.

Based in the English countryside in a 250-year-old cottage with an amazing garden, we're all passionate gardeners and we understand exactly what gardeners need.

Our Story Discover The Genus Garden

What our customers say

They have revolutionised winter gardening for me. They are snug, really comfy for those awkward positions you get into when gardening, great for the knees with the built in pads and keep you dry. And am really enjoying them.

Women's Waterproof Gardening Trousers - Midnight
Bunny Guinness

They are a godsend to all keen lady gardeners. Real gardeners have to endure all weathers because a lot of work takes place in the dark chilly months. Thank you Genus - wonderfully practical trousers that I look forward to wearing for many a year!!

Women's Warm and Dry Gardening Trousers
Val Bourne

These trousers are very comfortable for gardening, they're true to size and have lots of useful pockets. I especially like the pocket for secateurs.

Sue P.
Designed By Gardeners

Genus is the world’s only brand of high-performance, technical clothing specially designed by gardeners for gardeners. Based in the UK.

Sustainability Built In

Customers tell us that our trousers are lasting them through several years of intensive gardening work.

Performance Fabrics

Shower-resistant or totally waterproof, our fabrics have properties to wick sweat away, be lightweight and stretch, fast-drying, or even thorn-resistant.

In the Genus Garden - Musings from Joff, our Head gardener

Red Velour and Rozanne - perfect partners

This year's exceptional weather has just been crowned as the hottest on record for the UK and, as gardeners, we’re all seeing the results of the prolonged hot spell.  Brown...
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Amaranthus - a great dual purpose annual performer

For a plant with such tiny seeds it’s always a surprise when Amaranthus comes into flower with its bright tassels at head height.  We love it and have decided to...
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Short back and sides for a record breaking yew hedge

I’ve gone for decades without seeing the giant yew hedge in Cirencester, Gloucestershire being clipped, but this year and last year I spotted the operation underway as I wandered through...
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Keep on propagating - plants for free

I’ve been adding to our stock of plants over the last week not because of careful planning but due to an unfortunate incident.  Several pots were blown over after a...
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Summer pruning - Buddleja globosa

Buddleja globosa, sometimes called the orange-ball tree, is an underrated plant, perhaps because of its ubiquity and use in supermarket car parks and public planting schemes. But there's a reason...
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Perennial pea - Lathyrus latifolius ‘Rosa Perle’

We’ve written on several occasions about the joys of growing sweet peas, even mentioning and growing the wonderful Tutankhamun pea reportedly found by Howard Carter in Tutankhamun's tomb.  We’ve never...
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Country Living Magazine
Gardens Illustrated
House & Garden
The Sunday Times
The English Garden