September 19, 2016
Yew | Taxus baccata | Special Offers We have reduced the price of our Yew hedging plants in 2 litre pots. We have a fantastic batch of plants that will grow to create a beautiful formal yew hedge. There are two sizes available: Yew hedging plants 40-60cm (16-24″) tall in 2 litre pots have been reduced […]
May 3, 2016
New batches of hedging are now available including some 10ft tall (3m+) Leylandii, 6ft (1.75-1.85m) tall Griselinia and 3-4ft (90-120cm) and 5ft (1.4-1.6m) tall Photinia Red Robin. We have limited numbers of each of these available to please order quickly if you are interested in these. Click on Hedging Plants in the menu above and choose the […]
November 18, 2015
The digging has started and we now have 3 to 6ft+ Laurel hedging plants in stock. These are great value at £45 each. Rootballed plants are those that have been grown in the field and are dug up between November and March when the plants are not growing. A ball of soil is dug up […]
July 22, 2015
We have some new batches of Portugal Laurel that are now ready for sale and looking fantastic. Portugal Laurel is one of my favourite evergreen hedging plants. It may not be quite as fast-growing as the ordinary Laurel (Prunus laurocerasus ‘Rotundifolia’) but it’s no slouch. It forms a neat and tidy dense hedge of dark […]
May 15, 2015
We now have our big and bushy Laurel plants available again. We have sizes up to 200cm (6’6″) tall. These were potted up from the field in the winter and have now rooted through and are ready to plant. They can be planted at any time of year as long as they are kept watered […]
March 25, 2015
We have been incredibly busy on the nursery potting up plants that have started life being grown in the field. This means we will have more to sell over the late spring, summer and early autumn when we cannot dig plants directly from the field as they are actively growing. We have increased our range […]
November 27, 2014
“Is Leylandii still popular?” is a question I often get asked. The answer is “Yes”. We sell more Leylandii than any other hedging plant and the reasons are simple: 1. Leylandii are quick-growing and, generally, people don’t want to wait for years for a hedge to grow. They want privacy or to screen off something […]
October 8, 2014
I recently returned from a trip to Holland to see how the Dutch grow hedging plants. I visited nurseries specialising in field-grown and pot-grown hedging. Larger sizes of field-grown plants are dug up in the winter months with a ball of soil around the roots (called a rootball) and this is wrapped with hessian to […]
June 14, 2014
The Football Association (FA) has selected Middlezoy Rovers FC in Somerset as one of eight clubs to pilot a new ‘Self-Help Scheme’. The FA has given £1000 towards materials for the development of the grounds and facilities and the rest is down to the local community members to organise donations from local businesses and help […]
March 26, 2014
Following an autumn and winter of storms, the demand for fence panels has risen to five times higher than normal levels. The St Jude Storm at the end of October depleted stocks and the subsequent storms in January and February now mean there are weeks of wait to get fencing panels. According to the gardening […]
May 28, 2013
I visited Montacute House for the first time this week. It is a National Trust property near Yeovil in Somerset. The gardens were very formal and the planting was not spectacular but the hedges were great! The picture above is of a yew hedge that has been trimmed to give a fabulous uneven effect. We […]
