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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...
Spring bulbs on the Nursery today
So good to see the spring colours in this glorious sunshine today. There are signs of spring at last, The...

Category Archives: Spring colour

We grow all our Aubretia from cuttings

Posted in: Spring colour | April 17, 2017 at 10:00 , by Downside Nurseries

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We grow all our Aubretia from cuttings. The seed grown varieties are much more lax, the cuttings ones grow into nice compact cushions There is a wonderful range of colours from which to choose – from purple through mauves and pinks to red and of course white. We sell these...

Iris Pumila Little Shadow, Blue Denim and Cherry Garden

Posted in: New Plants, Spring colour | April 11, 2017 at 15:04 , by Downside Nurseries

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New this year on the Nursery we have dwarf bearded iris (Iris Pumila) from Darwin Plants. These are similar to the Germanica hybrids but much shorter (25cm) and earlier blooming. They like sun or partial and well-drained alkaline soil. Perfect for our limestone brash. The flowers are clear and jewel...

Magnolia – one of the most dramatic flowering shrubs in the garden

Posted in: Shrubs, Spring colour, Trees | February 24, 2016 at 10:29 , by Downside Nurseries

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The magnolia buds are beginning to swell; they must be one of the most dramatic flowering shrubs in the garden. First the hybrid Magnolia × soulangeana and the Magnolia x stellatas, pink or white blossoms on bare stems. Then the later hybrids and the lilii floras. They mostly blossom from late spring...