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Category Archives: winter colour

Winter Planting

Posted in: Winter Bedding, winter colour, Winter Planting | November 30, 2023 at 16:50 , by Downside Nurseries

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There is still plenty of colour on the nursery for winter planting. Pansies. Anemones, Bellis, Cyclamen, Hellebores and Polyanthus and Primroses for the spring. In the shrub section, Mahonias and Sarcococca are in flower now; they are wonderfully scented and provide some winter food for the bees. There are also...

Christmas Roses and Hellebores

Posted in: Winter Bedding, winter colour | December 14, 2022 at 16:52 , by Downside Nurseries

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We have the popular Christmas Rose ‘Christmas Carol’ £7.95 a hybrid Hellebore, much more robust than the species which is notoriously difficult to grow. (image below left) Also, some hybrid ‘Gold Collection’ Hellebores (below right) in 3L pots (£14.95). These are beginning to flower now and will go on well...

Autumn/winter bedding plants

Posted in: Autumn Bedding, winter colour, winter planters | October 8, 2020 at 14:18 , by Downside Nurseries

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We have our usual excellent range of pansies and violas. Some violas are naturally winter flowers but pansies (Viola x wittrockiana (Deltini rose pink pansy) have been hybridised with other viola species to gain this characteristic. The Panola range is particularly good: the flowers are not as large as some...

Cyclamen, Primroses and Christmas Roses

Posted in: Winter Bedding, winter colour, winter planters | December 10, 2018 at 15:29 , by Downside Nurseries

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The Wallflowers and winter pansies whizzed out but there is still plenty of colour. The cyclamen are looking wonderful. They are tougher than they look and will grow outside very happily. Indoors a cool room is usually recommended, but they seem to cope pretty well with heat provided you keep...

Cyclamen at Downside Nurseries

Posted in: Autumn Bedding, Autumn Borders, Bedding, winter colour, winter planters | November 22, 2017 at 12:29 , by Downside Nurseries

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Cyclamen bench at Downside Nurseries 890

The coloured cyclamen on the bench now are Metis F₁ hybrids raised from seed down in May. They are intended for tubs and containers and are hardy. A sharp frost may shrivel the flowers but new ones will rapidly appear. Many customers plant them out in their gardens when they...