Downside Plant Nursery News

Christmas at Downside

Posted in: Christmas Shopping | December 14, 2016 at 16:00 , by Downside Nurseries

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Christmas at Downside: The Christmas trees are here! We have cut trees both traditional Norway spruce from £24.95 and the non-drop Nordmans from £59.95. We also have proper pot grown trees (not field grown and stuffed in a pot) from £24.50 for Norway spruces and £6.95 for Nordmans. The holly wreaths...

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Posted in: News | December 10, 2016 at 12:43 , by Downside Nurseries

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If you’d like to read the latest Downside Newsletter, here it is. We email them once every couple of months or so – more in the spring/summer as there’s more to say. This is what one of our kind readers commented about our newsletters: “I just wanted to compliment you...

New Stock – Magnolia grandiflora, Corylopsis, Ilex crenata

Posted in: Topiary, Trees | December 7, 2016 at 16:03 , by Downside Nurseries

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Magnolia-grandiflora-Exmouth-(thanks-to-RHS for image)

It is difficult to keep the stock list on the website up dated so from time to time it is useful to mention some of the new plants we have in… Magnolia grandiflora – these are really lovely evergreen magnolias with huge white flowers, usually scented. They are fully hardy...

Bare root and root balled hedging

Posted in: Autumn Bedding, Hedge | October 17, 2016 at 10:19 , by Downside Nurseries

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prunus-spinosa-blackthorn perhaps as part of your Bare root and root balled hedging

It is too early to start lifting the bare root and root balled hedging but we have had the prices in. Root balled plants, lifted and the roots wrapped in hessian, are a good way to make an instant hedge and usually more economical than buying potted stock. They establish...

Michaelmas Daisies or Symphotrichium

Posted in: Autumn Bedding, Autumn colour | October 13, 2016 at 10:12 , by Downside Nurseries

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Make Symphyotrichum-novae-angliae-Andenken-an-Alma-Pötschke part of your Autumn Bedding

Our Michaelmas Daisies or Symphotrichium (as we are trying to learn to call them) are in flower now. We have a wide colour range, white, mauve, purple, pink. These are the novae-angliae type which does not get mildew. Not many places stock these. Their only drawback is that they are...