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Mothering Sunday

Posted in: Mothers' Day, Spring colour | March 8, 2018 at 13:14 , by Downside Nurseries

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After the snow, gardens are looking a bit battered. Mothers’ Day is a good opportunity to brighten things up a bit. We have loads of colour, primroses and cyclamen at pocket money prices. There are still trays of polyanthus in bloom and the trays of primroses are beginning to flower....

Autumn Bedding

Posted in: Autumn Bedding, Autumn colour | October 3, 2016 at 18:05 , by Downside Nurseries

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Cyclamen at Downside Nurseries - perfect for your Autumn Bedding

Autumn Bedding Now is the time to ditch those sad summer containers and plant out with autumn bedding. The sooner you do it the better your winter display will be. The days are getting shorter and the plants are slowing down, so buy larger plants and plant closer than in...

Wallflowers and Foxgloves (Digitalis)

Posted in: Biennials, Season Plants | October 14, 2015 at 08:40 , by Downside Nurseries

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Image of Wallflowers at Downside which come in dwarf mixed & Persian carpet mixed and self-colours in sunset yellow, orange, white, apricot & treasure red.

Wallflowers and Foxgloves (Digitalis) – perfect to plant now for lovely spring colours… Our wallflowers come as dwarf mixed and Persian carpet mixed, and for those of you wanting self-colours, we have sunset yellow, orange, white and apricot and treasure red. Just one or two for you to choose from...

Schizostylis Plants: Pink Princess & Cindy Towe, Salvias Royal Bumble & greggii Caramba with Corynephorus canescens Spiky Blue

Posted in: Autumn colour, Season Plants | October 3, 2015 at 12:53 , by Downside Nurseries

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Image of the display table at Downside Nurseries showing Schizostylis Plants: Pink Princess & Cindy Towe, Salvias Royal Bumble & greggii Caramba with Corynephorus canescens Spiky Blue

The soft Pink Princess and vivid red Cindy Towe Schizostylis plants make a beautiful addition to late summer and autumn gardens, producing clumps of spiky, rich-green foliage and spears of star-shaped flowers that are reminiscent of a wide open crocus. Flowers September to December. The Pink Princess Kaffir Lilly’s long thick...

October Planting – Wallflowers, Digitalis (Foxgloves) and Pansies

Posted in: Bedding, Season Plants | October 21, 2014 at 09:42 , by Downside Nurseries

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Wallflowers, Digitalis (Foxgloves) and Pansies Wallflowers All the self-colour wallflowers at Downside are F1 Hybrids which means that not only will they be naturally bushy without having to pinch out, but also they will have superior garden performance in terms of flowers. This gives you a much better plant than...