Late Winter Almost Spring Gardens

Spring Is On Its Way Despite the cold we have felt the it's first breath and a lot of us are back in the Garden preparing for the forthcoming year. 

Creating A Good Winter Garden

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Grumbles about winter gardens are not justified. The fault lies firstly with us and our fair weathered nature. We shop when its warm and buy what we see in flower in May and June and miss the winter flowers. I am generalising. Go shopping on a mid winters day and you will then appreciate we have colour all winter.

Top Winter Bloomers

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November Gardener's Calendar

• Its a very good time to plant hedges, trees, shrubs and fruit. To give your garden the very best head start continue the tradition of autumn planting and plant as much as possible now. Planting in autumn conditions is recommended because the ground is favourable and if we establish plants now we can enjoy them next year. Plants benefit from having time to create a solid root system through autumn, winter and early spring, when they are not under pressure to flower and produce leaves. Work now while the soil is still warm and moist and not yet frozen. And don't forget to get your spring bulbs in.

Hardy Winter Containers

 

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Every season we reserve one of the tunnels for seasonal interest perfect for pots and containers. There is a myth that the winter is dull. It is a myth. The colour may not be flower dependant though there is no shortage of flower with violas and hellebores, cyclamen and bellis to highlight a few.

My Mid-Summer Perennials

 

It’s all about summer perennials the first big wave of herbaceous colour or the first hot hit as geum Totally Tangerine strikes out in fabulous contrast against blue geraniums and yellow daisies making up for the loss of what have been fabulous tulip displays followed by a brazen early wave of grand purple alliums.

Planting Autumn Winter Pots

 

Here are the ingredients for my autumn winter pots.

Spring Flowers In Blossom Now

 

A quick tour of just some of the flowers out now

A New Large Evergreen Viburnum odoratissimum ‘Coppertop’

Looks like this is the new hot shrub. I can not believe how like a photinia it appears. The fresh growth is a good rich bronze. It is not as horrendously big as the 5m odoratissimum or green sweet viburnum. Hight wise this shrub is more like growing a Viburnum tinus or a Photina fraseri ‘Red Robin’.

A Pretty Border In My Garden

This is one of my borders.I have both orange and purple tulips in my hot coloured border. See how the orange pop against the Pittosporum dark foliage and the soft telima frothy spikes. There is some apricot huchera foliage in there and a back drop of white hellebores and ferns.

A perfect Winter Planting Combination, Helleborus Anna's Red, Salix Mount Aso and Lophomythus xralphii Black Pearl

Helleborus Anna's Red in the Frost Kiss series makes great ground cover. Simply the best red with marbled foliage leaves. Seen here in a mixed bed with amazing pink winter catkins and ruddy foliage.

Simply Gorgeous Foliage Heucherella Yellowstone Falls

 

These trail in autumn, winter containers. I am really shouting the praises of heucherella Yellowstone Falls. I love this foliage in a hardy pot and I equally love Redstone Falls.

Summer Hanging Baskets 2021 Prices

Either bring in your old hanging basket (empty) or have a new basket made up. Place orders in the shop.

Sweet Peas To Plant This Spring

 One of the most loved flowers and excellent for cutting is the sweet pea.

Spring Seasonal Colour and Sunshine

All the spring flowers are looking their best and the suns out. The Nursery tunnels are bursting with seasonal colour.