Howden’s can trace its history to a Seed Shop opened by a Mr Fraser of Inverness in 1801, with its first advertising produced in 1808 and seed catalogues by the 1860s. The business moved from premises on the High Street, to a shop in Church Street and nurseries at Muirtown. The Church Street shop closed with the opening of Howden’s Garden Centre on Telford Street in 1965. The business is now situated in Stoneyfield, Inverness.
This catalogue form 1935-36 includes hardy Highland trees and shrubs, fruit trees, vegetable plants and seeds, bulbs, and rose bushes. Howden’s claimed to be “Britain’s most northerly nurseries” and “Scotland’s Loveliest Garden and Flower Centre”.
