Downside Plant Nursery News

Your vegetable garden

Posted in: Vegetables | September 27, 2018 at 16:29 , by Downside Nurseries

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For the vegetable garden, there are plenty of spring cabbage and winter lettuce plants ready. If you have an empty cold glasshouse you could try a few spring cabbages in pots (use a soil-based compost). You will be cutting weeks ahead of the outdoor ones. Mangetout are another worthwhile cold...

Spring border colours

Posted in: Spring colour | September 27, 2018 at 16:23 , by Downside Nurseries

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For your borders, we have Sweet Williams, Forget-me-not (blue and white) Canterbury Bells and Foxgloves. The Foxgloves are particularly worthwhile: they will give a stunning early start to your herbaceous borders – white, mixed and Sutton’s Apricot. The Wallflowers are ready – Persian Carpet (mixed) and Bloomsby Baby (dwarf mixed)...

Summer colour

Posted in: Colour, Summer colour | September 27, 2018 at 12:18 , by Downside Nurseries

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Symphyotrichum novae-angliae 'Septemberrubin'

Summer is not quite over though; Rudbeckias and Monardas are coming into their own and we have a new batch of Symphyotrichum (Asters) just beginning to flower. We have a splendid collection of Symphyotrichum novae-angliae (New England aster) in a wonderful range of colours, bomb-proof and mildew free. Where we...

Tubs, Baskets, Pansies and Violas

Posted in: Autumn colour | September 23, 2018 at 12:18 , by Downside Nurseries

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Like it or not, it is time to think of Autumn tubs and baskets. It is tempting to leave the summer displays for as long as possible, but for a really satisfactory winter show, you need to make the change before the end of October. We recommend rattan baskets for...

Bare root and root-balled plants

Posted in: Bare Root Trees and Hedging, Root Balled plants | September 20, 2018 at 15:58 , by Downside Nurseries

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Bare root and root-balled plants It has been a wonderful summer for sitting in the garden, not so good for gardening. The effects of the long summer drought are still with us, fields and lawns which have not been watered are still full of cracks and it will take a...