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April Newsletter is here
Read our latest newsletter here, published Thursday, 17th April 2025. We’re open all over the Easter weekend including Sunday as...
2025 Stock List on the website and Cornus contraversa Variegata ( Wedding Cake Tree)
Our 2025 stock list is now up on the website. This contains all the hardy stock we hold at present,...
Assorted Spring bulbs, violas and primroses
More wonderful colour today on the nursery (1st March) . Happy St David’s Day and welcome to the Meteorological spring...

Category Archives: Autumn Borders

Cyclamen at Downside Nurseries

Posted in: Autumn Bedding, Autumn Borders, Bedding, winter colour, winter planters | November 22, 2017 at 12:29 , by Downside Nurseries

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Cyclamen bench at Downside Nurseries 890

The coloured cyclamen on the bench now are Metis F₁ hybrids raised from seed down in May. They are intended for tubs and containers and are hardy. A sharp frost may shrivel the flowers but new ones will rapidly appear. Many customers plant them out in their gardens when they...

Autumn Borders, Winter Bedding, Trees and Hedging

Posted in: Autumn Bedding, Autumn Borders, Autumn colour, Hanging Baskets, Hedge, Trees, Trees - Fruit, Trees - Ornamental, Winter Bedding, winter colour, winter planters | October 14, 2017 at 15:00 , by Downside Nurseries

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Schizostylis (Hesperantha)Plants- Pink Princess & Cindy Towe, Salvias Royal Bumble & greggii Caramba with Corynephorus canescens Spiky Blue

Autumn Borders Asters – or Symphyotrichum (as we ought to call them now) are in full flower. We still have a good selection of the novae-anglia mildew resistant varieties, lovely shades of mauve, purple pink and white. A nice change from the red and yellow autumn colours. Salvias are looking...