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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

Spring colour in your garden

Posted in: Season Plants | February 5, 2013 at 17:53 , by Downside Nurseries

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Still time to plant Digitalis (foxgloves) for glorious flowering in May and June; ditto Myostotis (Forget-me-Not) (did you know the name comes from the Greek: “mouse’s ear”, after the leaf) ??? And beginning to look good in the garden this month are the Heuchera – if you have a stunning display, do...

Adding colour to your garden in January

Posted in: Season Plants | January 21, 2013 at 18:26 , by Downside Nurseries

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It’s not so easy to find colour at this time of year but primroses, cyclamen, snowdrops and hellebores all add a welcome splash. In need of some colour? Then visit our Bay 14 for an instant fix. If you don’t want to plant out straight away, you could keep in their...

Nursery News 28th May

Posted in: BBC TV featured plants, Climbers, Season Plants | May 28, 2012 at 08:29 , by Downside Nurseries

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As featured at RHS Chelsea last week, we’re delighted we have some beautiful Clematis Shikoo climbers available (as at 28/5). A large summer flowering clematis producing double bluey-purple flowers. Ideal for planting in containers as well as pergolas, walls etc. Deciduous climber. Grows to 2M (6-8ft) and you can...

Nursery News 12th May 2012

Posted in: News, Season Plants | May 23, 2012 at 14:12 , by Downside Nurseries

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Frosts should finally be over now so good for tender bedding. Nearly time for planting runner beans, courgettes and marrows. All varieties of tomatoes now available as well as indoor and outdoor cucumbers, sweet peppers, chilli peppers. We also have a few mini cucumbers, Ogen melon and we’re experimenting with...

Nursery News 26th April

Posted in: Season Plants | April 28, 2012 at 18:54 , by Andrew Poulton

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We have a lovely range of scented leaf and variegated pelargoniums in just now – these are becoming difficult to find and our stocks will disappear fast! Peppers, chillis and cucumbers are now ready with the veg bench filling up too. The Lathyrus Rotundifoliusmentioned in our last update have now...