We grow many varieties of plants:

1000 hardy  perennials

350 different shrubs

200 climbers including 80 clematis

40 herbs

Huge range of tender perennials and annuals in season

Greenhouse and outdoor vegetable plants

Perennials: From Pulmonarias and Hellebores in the spring to Schizostylis in late winter, a good selection from this group will provide your garden with flower for most of the year. Most but not all loose their foliage in the winter; the bare stems or old flower-heads of Sedums look attractive with a coating of frost on the coldest days. The plants are generally fast growing, easily moved if you put them in the wrong place and many of them can be split in the spring to make your own new plants!

Shrubs: Form the main framework of a garden and can provide colour with flowers, foliage or bark throughout the year. They need choosing with care to ensure they fit the space allotted to them. Many of the new varieties have been bred to grow much smaller and need the minimum of pruning.

Climbers: Not just for covering walls, but old trees, obelisks or simple pillars, climbers grow faster then anything else. There aren’t many evergreen climbers: honeysuckles begin to burst into leaf in January and what some lack in winter foliage they make up for in flower and scent in the summer. Choose the right varieties and either mix them together or grow less vigorous ones over flowering shrubs to give a longer flowering period.

Tender Perennials and annuals: These are the plants that those new to gardening meet first. Fast to establish, most have long flowering seasons, vibrantly coloured flowers and they are ideal for pots and the most visited areas of the garden where constant colour is important. They make a stunning display. You all know Fuchsia and Geraniums; now we stock lots of the new introductions: Surfinias, a non seeding vigorous growing petunia-like plant, perennial nemesia in subtle blues and pinks just to mention two. Most of these plants are not frost hardy and grow in the late spring, summer and autumn months.

Vegetables. There is a real interest now in growing your own. This is because you can’t beat the taste of your own home grown veg and vegetables are easy to grow. From pots on patios to vegetable plots - we grow the plants that will suit any of these situations.

We have a wide range of tomatoes - from cherry tomatoes that can be grown in pots, to standard cordon and bush varieties suitable for garden or greenhouse. As well as our established favourites, we are growing some unusual varieties and new for this year is ‘Tumbling Tom Red’ - a tomato that you can grow in a hanging basket!

We also have a great range of peppers - from mild bell peppers to the small, fiery-hot ones.

 

We grow a selection of young plants for the vegetable patch, such as lettuce, beans and cabbage. They are grown as 6 plants in a container and are easy to just take out of the container and plant into the garden. You can select as many as you wish to suit your garden size. Just plant them and watch them grow!

Herbs: A useful outdoor range is grown, most with culinary use but also Lavenders, Cotton Lavender and Curry Plant to name a few.  Come summer, a range of Basils, and Coriander appear.

Succulents are excellent for planting in terracotta pots. They make a great impact and do not require constant watering. The terracotta helps the plant to drain effectively. They look especially good in seaside gardens.

 

Some really spectacular succulents include the amazing multi-headed Aeonium and the spiky-leaved Agave. We also have many other different and unusual succulents - in all shapes and sizes. Are you looking for something different? Then why not try Kalanchoe ‘Bronze Sculpture’. A fantastically shaped plant with huge spoon-shape leaves, flushed smoky-purple and grey-green. It will look great in a pot.

What contributes to the quality of our plants:-

• Varieties selected to grow well in the drier eastern climate
• Both business partners have 35 year’s nursery experience following 3 year full-time courses in general commercial and glasshouse horticulture.
• Plants are sold with enough nutrition to grow away well.
• Greenhouse plants for spring sale are grown cooler and are therefore tougher than those sold in superstores where most are grown warm and fast.
• Most of our stock is fresh from our nursery.