About Us

We are located at Ibbagamuwa near Kurunegala. We are not like any other plant nursery that grows the usual flora for sale. We grows grape, bell pepper, sweet tamarind or pani siyambala, cypress, palm and pear trees on our land. We are providing all flora, vegitale plants, fruite plants and various varaetirs of plants.

Located on the Kurunegala-Dambulla, main road, the nursery is full of bougainvillea bushes covered with blooms of the most delicate shades of cream, pink and mauve, bud-carnation trees full of scarlet and pink blooms and a number of fruit trees full of half-ripe fruit like guava, mango, orange as well as king coconut trees.

H. B. Weesinghe, founder of the Sampath Plant Nursery, a paddy farmer turned agriculturist and the founder of the plant nursery.

His grape clusters have been the talk of the town since he reaped his first harvest six months ago. He experiment a lot with plants and have a special hut to conduct his experiments. He planted a grape plant in this hut about one-and-a half years ago and monitored its growth. When its leaves started changing colour He covered it with a polythene and it started growing.

Mr. Weesinghe has planted grape clusters in a special house at his nursery; He used the green-house system to provide the clusters with the humidity they require because this system also protects the clusters from various diseases and rain. 

His wife and three sons help him in the business despite a rift in the family in the early 80s over his decision to abandon paddy farming. "I always had a nice garden and when the late Ranjan Wijeratna (former deputy defence minister) visited us in 1979 he advised me to start a plant nursery. I didn't derive a good income from paddy cultivation those days so I decided to start the nursery. 

Mr. Weesinghe has trained over 100 youth at his nursery for the Agriculture Department and feels that he will do better in the future with his grape business catching on.