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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: Trees – Ornamental

Downside News

Posted in: Colour, Newsletter, Trees - Ornamental | February 9, 2024 at 18:11 , by Downside Nurseries

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Downside News Feb 9th 2024 We hope you enjoy reading and if you’d like your own copy to pop into your inbox, please complete the sign-up form on the home page of our website, left-hand side. We won’t bombard you with emails – about six a year, with more in...

Planting Trees

Posted in: Fruit Trees, Trees, Trees - Evergreen, Trees - Ornamental | November 16, 2023 at 15:58 , by Downside Nurseries

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Tree Order This is an excellent time to plant trees. We have just had our autumn delivery from Frank P Matthews with some very nice and unusual varieties. Unfortunately, due to the renovation work on the propagating house, some of the tree wires cannot be used so some of the...

Magnolias

Posted in: Trees, Trees - Ornamental | April 11, 2023 at 14:30 , by Downside Nurseries

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There are some magnificent Magnolia soulangiana in bloom in gardens at the moment. If you have Magnolia envy, we still have a good range of varieties including the relatively new Magnolia laevifolia Fairy series: Fairy Blush, Fairy White and Fairy Cream. These have proved to be very successful and are a...

Trees expected at Downside Nurseries in October 2022

Posted in: Fruit Trees, Trees, Trees - Fruit, Trees - Ornamental | September 30, 2022 at 16:00 , by Downside Nurseries

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These are the trees we are expecting this month, October 2022. In addition, we have existing stock including flowering cherry, Sorbus and trained fruit. There’s a selection of images in the next post. As always, even if something is listed, we cannot guarantee that it will be...

Trees

Posted in: Trees, Trees - Evergreen, Trees - Fruit, Trees - Ornamental, Trees Standard | October 4, 2021 at 15:37 , by Downside Nurseries

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We are all being encouraged to plant trees and, naturally, this has created a shortage. Last year we split our order as usual (Autumn/Spring) but quite a lot of what we had reserved for our second delivery did not turn up, so this year we have decided to take them...