We have an exciting new link on our website to tell you about… We’ve had a Google 360 degree tour made of our Nurseries to show you what it’s like inside. Many of our first-time visitors are so surprised at the size of it and the huge number of...
Read more
Downside Plant Nursery News
Eryngium giganteum ‘Silver Ghost’
We have been busy sowing perennials for next year. One new item Lorraine is keen to see is Eryngium giganteum ‘Silver Ghost’. Eryngium can be annuals, biennials or perennials with simple or divided leaves, often spiny edged, and cone-like flower-heads often surrounded by an involucre of conspicuous spiny bracts. It...
Read more
Dead-heading roses
Gardening ‘Which’ have just reported on a trial about dead-heading roses. Cutting back to the first leaf showed by far the best results, rather than just removing the dead head or cutting back to a leaf with five leaflets. I think that is what most of us do anyway, but...
Read more
Summerinas
It has been a busy season and the herbaceous tunnel is looking a bit depleted, but we have started to pot up new stock so there are things being added all the time. We are trying some summerinas – a cross between Rudbeckia and Echinacea from Bob Brown’s nursery. Compact 50cm....
Read more
Fruit trees, Espaliers and Fan-Trained
Fruit trees, Espaliers and Fan-Trained – Lorraine is now beginning to order fruit trees for the Autumn. If there is something special you want, it is a good idea to order it now, particularly espaliers and fan-trained trees. Please call the nursery on 01225 862 392 or email Lorraine...
Read more