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Pumpkins
Richard decided to try and grow giant pumpkins this year; he could not have timed it worse – late frosts...
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We have started to get availability lists for bare-root and root-balled hedging. Lifting will not start for a week or...

Category Archives: Trees

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...

Fruit tree shapes – espaliers, candelabra, fan shape

Posted in: Espaliers, Fruit Trees, Trained, Tree Shapes, Trees, Trees - Candelabra, Trees - Fruit, Trees - Steps-Overs, Trees Espalier, Trees Patio & Dwarf Patio | March 16, 2017 at 13:46 , by Downside Nurseries

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Candelabra Granny Smith and Jonagold Applies with Williams Bon Credien Pears 763

We often refer to the various different tree shapes in our newsletters and blogs so we thought it might be helpful to jot down the details of each The espalier shape sees the trunk growing right to the top of the plant and the branches coming off horizontally at regular...

The Winter Garden

Posted in: Trees, winter colour, winter planters | January 3, 2017 at 10:11 , by Downside Nurseries

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Helleborus-orientalis at Downside Nurseries

January is the time for cleaning and clearing in the winter garden. If you are still enjoying the seed heads of your grasses you can leave them a little longer, but make sure you cut them down hard before the new growth appears or you will be left with a...

New Stock – Magnolia grandiflora, Corylopsis, Ilex crenata

Posted in: Topiary, Trees | December 7, 2016 at 16:03 , by Downside Nurseries

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Magnolia-grandiflora-Exmouth-(thanks-to-RHS for image)

It is difficult to keep the stock list on the website up dated so from time to time it is useful to mention some of the new plants we have in… Magnolia grandiflora – these are really lovely evergreen magnolias with huge white flowers, usually scented. They are fully hardy...

Trees

Posted in: Trees | October 5, 2016 at 10:05 , by Downside Nurseries

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Albizia julibrissin ‘Ombrella’ - perhaps for your autumn bedding?

We have had the first of our tree deliveries from Frank Matthews. The ornamental trees are in and most of the trained fruit. Trained fruit trees are scarce this year so shop early. Gardeners Question Time came from Bath University recently. They mentioned the lovely Silk Tree – Albizia julibrissin....