Whetman Pinks are celebrating their 80th year in business – and we have been buying cuttings from them for about 40 of them. They are really the best there is, as evidenced by the impressive number of award-winning varieties in their list. They breed for scent as well as colour and form which is lovely as so many modern plants have lost their perfume.
Pinks are really tough and will survive the worse weather providing they have adequate drainage – they hate soggy conditions.
We have 40 varieties in stock:
- Alpines
- Alpine Early Bloomers
- Pot Patio ‘Scent First’ Varieties
- Garden Pinks
Most will repeat bloom or bloom continuously all summer if dead-headed. We have good stocks on the nursery now (mid Feb) although a little early to be flowering, but please note though that we have often sold out of the Alpines/Early Bloomers and Scent First varieties by May. These are our varieties as at the beginning of the season and the AGM alongside means this is a variety which has received an Award of Garden Merit from the RHS.
Fizzy is one of the Whetman Pink Alpine Early Bloomers available at Downside Nurseries
Gran’s Favourite – one of the Garden Pinks available at Downside Nurseries
Passion Planter – one of the Pot Patio Scent First varieties of Whetman Pinks available at Downside Nurseries
| Alpines | |
| Evening Star | AGM |
| Fire Star | AGM |
| Morning Star | |
| Pixie Star | AGM |
| Red Dwarf | AGM |
| Shooting Star | |
| Starry Eyes | AGM |
| Supernova | |
| Starlette | |
| Mendlesham Minx | |
| Warden Hybrid | |
| Whatfield Can Can | AGM |
| Whetman Alpine “Early Bloomers” | |
| Arctic Star | |
| Cracker | |
| Fizzy | |
| Frilly | |
| Rebekah | |
| Rosebud | |
| Sherbet | |
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Pot Patio ‘Scent First’ Varieties |
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| Candy Floss | AGM |
| Coconut Sundae | |
| Iced Gem | |
| Memories | |
| Passion | |
| Raspberry Sundae | |
| Slap’n’Tickle | |
| Sugar Plum | |
Garden Pinks
| Cranmere Pool | AGM |
| Devon Cream | |
| Devon Dove | AGM |
| Devon Wizard | AGM |
| Doris | AGM |
| Gran’s Favourite | AGM |
| Letitia Wyatt | AGM |
| Lily the Pink | |
| Moulin Rouge | AGM |
| Waterloo Sunset | |
| Widecombe Fair | AGM |
| Tickled Pink |