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Richard decided to try and grow giant pumpkins this year; he could not have timed it worse – late frosts...
Bare-root and Root-balled hedging
We have started to get availability lists for bare-root and root-balled hedging. Lifting will not start for a week or...
Colour on the Nursery
We have plenty of colour – pansies, violas, Bellis and cyclamen. We carefully choose pansies and violas which will flower...

Category Archives: Season Plants

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...