In the year 1919 Alfred Thomas Eyles
(Tommy, or A.T) commenced a
horticultural dynasty. A.T Eyles began
growing Citrus trees at Fairmount Nursery in Rydalmere NSW.

As the Nursery developed and relocated site many times, three of A.T’s sons came to join him in the Citrus business. Jim in 1931, Tom in 1936 and Bob in 1942. A.T. Eyles and Sons was the now the name and nature of the business.

Citrus was the focus of the nursery business with the boys producing 100,000
trees per year. The Citrus trees were field grown and dug upon order. Budding
was done with raffia and wax, until 1956 when plastic budding tape
became available.

A.T passed on in 1962 and a few years after this the brothers parted ways. Jim
and Tom going on to grow roses, Bob continued with the Citrus production.
Bob Eyles purchased two properties in Pitt Town Road Kenthurst NSW in 1970.
One of these properties 207 is the current site of A.T Eyles & sons today.

Gary Eyles, Bob’s son came on board to continue the Eyles Citrus dynasty in
1969. Production was now moving away from the traditional commercial
orchard varieties of citrus. To meet the increasing demand from the retail

sector more eclectic Citrus varieties were grown. The sales on field grown Citrus were also waning and it was during the seventies that Bob and Gary started experimenting with container grown plants. It was in 1981 that they sold their first container grown plants and by 1986 they had completely altered production to container grown.

Gary and his wife Jan took over the Nursery from Bob in 1981 and have continued to evolve and develop the site and Citrus production. Over 40 varieties of Citrus are grown today.