industry horticulture founded 1903 headquarters alconbury weston england uk area served uk products seeds website unwins seeds unwins seeds is a british seed company based in alconbury weston huntingdon in cambridgeshire . the times describes unwins as a firm that has grown ... to become one of the most familiar features of britain s horticultural landscape 1 and the bbc calls the company world famous . 2 contents 1 history 1.1 ownership 2 product range 2.1 market share 3 references 4 external links history edit unwins seeds was formed in 1903 by william unwin by selling sweet pea seeds . 1 his son charles who had an interest in sweet peas joined the business in 1914 . 1 a brother frank had an interest in gladioli . in the late 1950s the company sold packets of seeds to gardening shops in full colour packets . later it would supply garden centres which helped the business to blossom . in 2003 the firm celebrated its centenary by publishing the unwins century an illustrated volume by colin hambidge and by launching the unwins centennial dahlia . 1 it continues to be a leader in the development of types of sweet pea . most of the sweet pea seeds are from countries outside of the uk picked by hand . ownership edit it used to be based in histon just north of cambridge . 2 it was bought by westland horticulture of dungannon county tyrone in august 2004 . it is situated on the eastern side of the a1 m just north of the a14 alconbury junction . product range edit it has garden seeds for flowers and plants . market share edit it has the largest share of the uk amateur seed market . citation needed references edit a b c d the times retrieved 4 september 2009 a b bbc retrieved 4 september 2009 external links edit unwins seeds marshalls seeds retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title unwins seeds & oldid 743332965 categories companies based in cambridgeshirehorticultural companies of the united kingdomseed companies1903 establishments in englandagriculture companies established in 1903british companies established in 1903hidden categories all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from may 2016 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 9 october 2016 at 04 33 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view