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We have some new fruit varieties at Downside Nurseries this season: Miracot is an apricot/Mirabelle cherry (plum) cross. It looks very promising. We have some standard trees. Raspberry Black Jewel –  a new black variety which gets the thumbs up from ‘Gardening Which’ Raspberry Ruby Beauty – which has been...

We have been busy sowing perennials for next year.  One new item Lorraine is keen to see is Eryngium giganteum ‘Silver Ghost’. Eryngium can be annuals, biennials or perennials with simple or divided leaves, often spiny edged, and cone-like flower-heads often surrounded by an involucre of conspicuous spiny bracts.  It...

Fruit trees, Espaliers and Fan-Trained – Lorraine is now beginning to order fruit trees for the Autumn.   If there is something special you want, it is a good idea to order it now, particularly espaliers and fan-trained trees.  Please call the nursery on 01225 862 392 or email Lorraine...