Downside Plant Nursery News

Adopt a container in Bradford on Avon

Posted in: Uncategorized | April 30, 2013 at 13:44 , by Downside Nurseries

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Climate Friendly Bradford on Avon and Country Gate Gardens have adopted a container in Lamb Yard, Bradford on Avon and planted it with incredible edibles. We were pleased to donate some of the plants, (the Elan strawberries with a long fruiting season are ideal for this planter), and also to loan plants for...

Garden Pests – one of Simon Drew cards

Posted in: Season Plants | April 29, 2013 at 12:45 , by Downside Nurseries

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I’m a great fan of Simon Drew cards and thought you might also enjoy this one. Here’s a link to his website ...

Tomato Trials

Posted in: Season Plants | April 28, 2013 at 12:06 , by Downside Nurseries

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We are trialling the basket tomato Losetto which is blight resistant at the Nursery this year. Nice image of it in Noel Kingsbury’s article in The Telegraph last year: We’re also trialling the tomato Black Russian as part of a “Gardening Which” trial....

Ongoing colour in your garden

Posted in: Herbaceous Perennial, Season Plants | April 23, 2013 at 12:40 , by Downside Nurseries

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Many of the herbaceous perennial plants will give you ongoing colour year after year and are great for gifts that last. The pic is of a Narcissus ‘Sun Disc’ taken at the nursery last April....

First tomato plants ready for those of you with glasshouses or conservatories

Posted in: Season Plants | April 18, 2013 at 12:50 , by Downside Nurseries

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The first tomato plants are ready for those of you with glasshouses or conservatories. It is a good idea to leave the plants in their 9cm pots until you can see yellow on the first flowers. This encourages the plants to make flowers rather than leaves and will give you...