Looking Good & Ready for Planting Now

Well we finally seem to have the Summer we've been waiting for. The Nursery is in full bloom and there are plenty of jobs in the garden to keep you busy in the sunshine. See below a list of garden tasks to be getting on with, details of gardening supplies available at the Nursery, from canes to compost, and a list of plants available and looking good right now.

Jobs to do around the garden in July

1. Water tubs and new plants when dry
2. Deadhead bedding plants and repeat-flowering perennials to ensure continuous flowering
3. Pick courgettes before they become marrows
4. Cut back plants in baskets to encourage new growth and help revive tired displays.
5. Cut back delphiniums and geraniums after the first flush of flowers to encourage a second flowering period. Feed after cutting them back.
6. Deadhead flower borders regularly to prolong flowering. Disbud and dead-head dahlias if growing for large blooms. Leave roses that produce attractive hips.
7. Plants like alpines, with a carpet-like growth habit, can become patchy, with central areas dying off. These patches can be in-filled with gritty compost, to encourage re-growth.
8. Prop up tall perennials such as lupins, delphiniums and gladioli if staking was neglected earlier in the season.
9. Prune June-flowering shrubs such as Philadelphus and Weigela after flowering. Prune deciduous magnolias if necessary.
10. Tie-in climbers and ramblers as they grow.
11. Ensure newly planted trees and shrubs do not dry out. They often need much more water than people imagine
12. Remove rose suckers and tree suckers.

Wondering what our little Nursery looks like? Click here to see a selection of photographs of the Nursery throughout the year.

Download our full Plant Catalogue here. (Various plants will be available at different times of the year, keep checking our Looking Good list below to see what's available)

Looking Good at the Nursery Right Now

Scroll down or click on the headings below to see which plants are looking good at the Nursery right now:

• Bedding Plants
• Herbs
• Fruit
• Climbers
• Shrubs
  - Evergreen
  - Foliage
  - Flowers
• Herbaceous Perennials
  - Evergreen

Bedding Plants

We have a range of Winter/Spring bedding plants perfect for cheering up your garden at this time of year, from the vivid colours of Polyanthus to the delicate flowers of Viola.

Our bedding plant availability changes from week to week as the season progresses. Towards the end of May we will have hundreds of varieties of Summer bedding available, suitable for borders, window boxes, pots and hanging baskets.

Herbs

Hardy Perennial Herbs

• 1L Chives
• 1L Spearmint
• 1L Apple Mint
• 1L Pineapple Mint
• 1L Golden Oregano
• 1L Feverfew
• 1L Sage
• 2L Bay
  

Fruit – all of the varieties below are available right now:

PLANT YOUR RASPBERRY CANES NOW

Raspberry ‘ Glen Doll’
Summer fruiting canes. Harvest : July – August.

Raspberry ‘Polka’
Autumn fruiting canes.Harvest: July – October.

Blueberry ‘Gold Traube’
This is a delicious, juicy, heavy-cropping variety with a vigorous, upright habit and fresh, light green, serrated leaves that take on striking shades of red, orange and golden-yellow in the autumn. It produces an abundance of large, firm, fine-flavoured aromatic fruits which ripen from July to August and are extremely nutritious, offering high vitamin contents. These are ideal for deep freezing as they retain their flavoursome taste exceptionally well and don’t turn your lips blue. Delicate clusters of stunning, pinkish-white, bell-shaped flowers are also borne from April to May and help to add colour and interest to the garden when the plant is not fruiting. It is an extremely robust and reliable variety which forms a strong, multi-branched framework and is suitable for container growing

Blueberry ‘Blue Crop’
A mid-season variety which produces a heavy crop of light blue berries that are full of flavour. It is a vigorous shrub with an upright habit and has good drought resistance. Like all blueberries, it must have moist, acidic soil to flourish. Even without the added bonus of delicious berries, it does make an attractivedeciduous shrub with white flowers in spring and striking autumn colours.

Gojiberry
They make good garden plants with flowers in summer followed by the orange-red fruits in autumn. Being members of the Tomato and Potato family they are very easy to grow needing no special soil or conditions to thrive in any garden.

The round, red goji berries are very tender and must be shaken rather then picked in order to avoid spoiling. Sweet in taste.

Fig ‘Brown Turkey’
The fruit is medium to large, with a reddish-brown skin tinged with purple. The pulp is reddish-pink and of good quality.

Grape ‘Black Hamburg’
Large dark red/purple fruit. Good flavour. Ripens freely without heat. Harvest: July – August.

Blackberry ‘Waldo’
Spine free. High yield of large fruits. Harvest: July – August.

Blackcurrent ‘Ben Sarak’
Small, compact bush. Heavy crop of large berries. Resistant to mildew. Harvest: Late June to August.

Gooseberry ‘Invicta’
Well-flavoured pale-green berries. Vigorous, spreading and thorny.
Resistant to mildew. Dual-purpose. Can be trained as a fan-shape.

Redcurrant ‘Rovada’
Large, luscious fruit produced in profusion.
Approx 2.7kg per plant. Harvest: July – August.

Rhubarb ‘Victoria’
Popular late season variety. Harvest: April – May. Forces well for earlier crop.

Strawberry ‘Elsanta’
Orange-red fruit with delicious taste. Harvest: mid-June to mid-July.

Fruit Trees

• Apple ‘Coxs Orange Pippin’
• Apple ‘Greensleeves’
• Cherry ‘Stella’

CLIMBERS

Spring interest
Wisteria ‘Caroline’
Wisteria ‘Amethyst’
Wisteria ‘White Silk’
Clematis montana grandiflora
Clematis montana ‘Elizabeth’
Clematis alpina ‘Francis Rivis’
Clematis alpina ‘Jacqueline du Pre’
Clematis ‘Asao’ – flowers again in August
Clematis ‘Crystal Fountain’ – again in Sept
Clematis ‘Early Sensation’ – evergreen
Clematis ‘Lasurstern’ – again in Sept
Clematis macropetala ‘Pauline’
Clematis ‘Miss Bateman’
Clematis ‘Nelly Moser’ – again in Sept
Clematis ‘Richard Pennell’ – again in July
Clematis ‘Sunset’ – again in Sept
Hedera colchica ‘Paddy’s Pride’– Ivy

Summer interest
Pyracantha ‘Saphyr Red’
Solanum jasminoides ‘Album’
Jasminum officinali ‘Inverleith’ – fragrant
Lathyrus latifolius
Clematis ‘Josephine’
Clematis songarica – fragrant flowers
Clematis viticella ‘Venosa Violacea’
Honeysuckle ‘Graham Thomas’ – fragrant
Honeysuckle periclymenum ‘Serotina’
Passiflora caerulea
Trachelospermum asiaticum - fragrant

Autumn interest
Partenocissus quinquefolia / Virginia Creeper

SHRUBS

EVERGREEN SHRUBS
Choisya ternata
Choisya ‘Sundance’
Pieris japonica ‘Bonfire’
Pieris japonica ‘Variegata’
Pachysandra terminalis
Vinca minor
Berberis darwinii ‘Compactum’
Berberis x media ‘Red Jewel’
Nandina domestica ‘Firepower’
Phormium ‘Yellow Wave’
Cotoneaster frigidus ‘Cornubia’
Ilex altaclerensis ‘Golden King’ / Variegated Holly
Photinia x fraseri ‘Red Robin’
Callistemon citrinus ‘Red Clusters’ / Bottlebush
Daphne odora ‘Aureomarginata’
Azalea japonica ‘Amoena’
Mahonia japonica

FOLIAGE SHRUBS
Berberis ottawensis ‘Superba’
Berberis thunbergii ‘Red Rocket’
Sambucus ‘Black Beauty’
Sambucus racemosa ‘Sutherlands Gold’
Cotinus coggygria ‘Dusky Maiden’
Cotinus ‘Grace’

FLOWERING SHRUBS
Ceanothus ‘Autumnal Blue’
Ceanothus ‘Gloire de Versailles’
Lavatera ‘Chamallow’
Potentilla fruiticosa ‘Abbotswood’
Potentilla fruiticosa ‘Tangerine’
Caryopteris x clanodonensis ‘Summer Sorbet’
Caryopteris x clanodonensis ‘Kew Blue’
Buddleia ‘Pixie Blue’
Buddleia ‘White Profusion’
Cornus kousa
Helianthemum ‘Cerise Queen’
Helianthemum ‘The Bride’
Fuchsia ‘Tom Thumb’
Fuchsia ‘Dollar Princess’

HERBACEOUS PERENNIALS

EVERGREEN HERBACEOUS PERENNIALS

SPRING INTEREST

• Evergreen
  Libertia grandiflora
  Helleborus orientalis
  
• Groundcover
  Veronica teucrium ‘Shirley Blue’
  Waldsteinia ternata
  Saponaria ocymoides
  Phlox subulata ‘Emerald Blue Cushion’
  Phlox douglasii ‘Red Admiral’
  Geum borsii
  
• Flowers
  Dicentra spectabilis
  Hesperis matronalis
  Verbascum phoeniceum ‘Flush of White’
  Verbascum ‘Southern Charm’
  Aquilegia ‘Dragonfly’
  Aquilegia alpina
  Iris germinica ‘Jane Phillips’
  Tanacetum coccineum ‘Robinsons Red’
  Papaver orientale ‘Royal Wedding’
  Papaver orientale ‘Pattys Plum’
  Gladiolus byzantinus
  
• Moisture Loving
  Iris siberica ‘Blue King’

SUMMER INTEREST

• Groundcover
  Erygium variifoliumLeontopodium / Edelweiss
  Tiarella ‘Ninja’
  Tiarella wherryi
  Alchemilla mollis / Lady’s mantle
  Astrantia major
  Astrantia major ‘Lars’
  Jasione ‘Blue Light’
  Heuchera ‘Palace Purple’
  Geranium ‘Johnsons Blue’
  Geranium ‘Ann Folkard’
  Linaria purpurea
  Linaria purpurea ‘Canon J Went’
  Trifolium purpurascens
  Campanula carpatica ‘White Clips’
  Gaillardia ‘Arizona Sun’
  Pratia pedunculata
  Erysimum ‘Bowles Mauve’
  Erysimum linifolium ‘Variegatum’
  Lychnis coronaria
  
• Flowers
  Sidalcea ‘Party Girl’
  Hemerocallis ‘Apres Moi’
  Hemerocallis ‘Anzac’
  Hemerocallis thunbergii
  Hemerocallis ‘Stella de Oro’
  Liatris spicata ‘Kobold’
  Lychnis chalcedonica
  Campanula lactiflora ‘Loddon Anna’
  Lysimachia ciliata ‘Firecracker’
  Euphorbia griffithii ‘Fire Glow’
  Leucanthemum ‘Silver Princess’ / Shasta Daisy
  Coreopsis grandiflora ‘Mayfield Giant’
  Coreopsis ‘Presto’
  Achillea ‘Cassis’
  Scabiosa atropurpurea ‘Chile Black’
  Veronica ‘Sightseeing’
  Kniphofia ‘Alcazar’ / Red Hot Poker
  Perovskia atriplicifolia ‘Blue Spire’
  Centranthus ruber ‘Pretty Betsy’
  Crocosmia ‘Lucifer’
  Dicentra spectabilis ‘Alba’
  Nepeta ‘Six Hills Giant’
  Eupatorium rugosum ‘Chocolate’
  Echinacea purpurea ‘Magnus’
  Verbena bonariensis
  Physalis franchetti
  Rudbeckia sullivantii ‘Goldstrum’
  Anemone japonica Pink
  Schizostylis coccinea ‘Mrs Hegarty’ / Kaffir Lily
  Lupinus ‘Gallery Mix’
  Salvia pratensis
  Platycodon ‘Sentimental Blue’
  
• Moisture Loving
  Aconitum napellus
  

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