Arthur Yates & Co Ltd, Padstow, NSW

Some of Australasia’s most respected horticultural brand names come out of the Yates stable: Yates, Hortico, Watkins, Zero, Aquasol, Thrive, Blitzem and Dynamic Lifter. Yates trans-Tasman connection allows the company to benefit from economies of scale and a larger market. A long-established relationship with Bayer sees Yates marketing Bayer’s home garden products, an arrangement that allows Yates to bring some of the best new international chemical developments to Australian and New Zealand home gardeners.

Yates supports a number of worthwhile gardening-related properties and causes throughout Australia and New Zealand. These include Victorian School Gardens Awards, Retina Australia, Calthorpes House Canberra, Eryldene Historic House & Garden Sydney, Community Gardens program run by Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens and Trees For Survival in New Zealand.