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

Hedge laying - the propensity to survive

Back in the spring a hedgerow just up the road from Genus HQ was attended to by a hedge-layer.  Stems of blackthorn and hawthorn were partially severed allowing them to...
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Slow worms

We all love a compost heap - recycling garden plants to reuse as mulch on the borders is always satisfying.  But compost heaps have other benefits - they are a...
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Violas - wigwams, and week old kittens

Violas are one of our favourite garden flowers at this time of the year.  They’re affordable, readily available, and most importantly, great performers.  Just a few placed in pots can...
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Persian buttercups

With most of the garden pots and troughs at their peak we thought it wouldn’t hurt to start planning their next reincarnation.  A friend kindly gave us a packet of...
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Greenhouse report

We always demonstrate a degree of restraint and patience when it comes to sowing half hardy annual seeds in the spring.  The resulting plants can’t be put outside until the...
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Snake in the grass

Several years ago we planted a few hundred pea sized bulbs of Fritillaria meleagris into the meadow with the hope of adding some interest in the grass that had lost...
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As seen in

Country Living Magazine
Gardens Illustrated
House & Garden
The Sunday Times
The English Garden