How many truck loads does it take to re-stock a nursery? Four truck loads of new plants arrived onto the nursery yesterday, yes four full artic loads of trees and plants. Not that the nursery was empty but to plug some of the gaps that were starting to show and add some new and interesting plant material to our current stock. It’s always really busy but exciting too unloading lorries, firstly all the guys not he nursery get into full throttle as they unload with a teleporter and a forklift carefully as each tree needs to be moved with care and attention so that it doesn’t Read More
It has been such a year of events and the weather has done us no favours at all on the nursery in 2018, Snow, drought, wind were all the thrown at us. Even with all that it hasn’t been a bad year on the nursery and October and November have been exceptionally busy, as you have probably gathered with my lack of content over the last few weeks. We are also busy planning some really exciting new projects for 2019, planning a couple of new additions to the nursery and trying to add new areas to our website. all of Read More
It’s hedging season and the volume of rootballed and bare-root hedging going out of the nursery is both incredible and a delight to see. We have a large range of hedging varieties and sizes to cater for all needs from rural options to city gardens and everything in between.
Out two most popular hedging options at this time of year are actually the most diverse; laurel hedging is fast growing, evergreen and dense, it is great for privacy and create a solid boundary quickly but does take up a reasonable amount of space, width wise and if you only have a small space, maybe in a front garden then it Read More