Overview

The plant and Garden area is the heart of our garden centre.

We offer a huge range of plants sourced from all over England and Europe with freshness and quality of paramount importance. We have such confidence in our standards that we offer a 2 year Hardy plant guarantee. If the plant fails in that time, simply return it and we will replace it with the same or similar equivalent. If you have any questions or would like our advice, we will do our best to help you be more successful with challenging plants and gardens.

Nearly all our plants are offered in a range of sizes from small starter plants for those with new gardens to fill, to impressive feature plants to give your garden instant character.

We cater for the grow your own enthusiast with everything from beans and broccoli to tasty tomatoes, fresh herbs and fruit from strawberries to plum trees.

For the gardener we have all the best and most popular shrubs, perennials, roses, trees and rockery plants and for those who just need an instant splash of colour on their porch or patio we offer a year round range of bedding plants, full of flower for containers and hanging baskets.

Spring

It can be a gardener’s biggest pleasure to see the garden come to life after winter. The early highlights are spring bulbs such as daffodils, crocuses and tulips emerging from the ground. Whether under spring blossom trees including cherries or alongside early flowering shrubs, magnolias, camellias and rhododendron as examples these heralds to Spring are always a welcome sight

Plant new roses, trees, shrubs and perennials whilst the ground is still moist and a full range of young plants are available at the garden centre.

Spring is also the time to get ahead in the garden before the weeds start growing. Tidy borders, weed and mulch with compost or manure. Feed specimen trees, roses, shrubs, hedge and established beds and borders, with a general purpose organic fertilizer.

This is the time to sow seeds, indoors and outside, Sow hardy annuals outdoors and half-hardy annuals in a heated propagator in the greenhouse or on a windowsill indoors.

Meanwhile create some instant spring colour on patios with containers and baskets full of pansies and primroses alongside spring bulbs. After the last frost plant out summer bedding such as geraniums or petunias in containers and outdoor beds.

For the keen Kitchen gardener spring is the time to sow this season’s crop of most salad and vegetable crops from tomatoes to green beans in the ground, in the greenhouse or just in containers on the patio. We pride ourselves on a particularly fine choice for both the experienced or first time grower.

Summer

Now that the risk of frost has finally passed it’s time to indulge in some real flower colour, whether it’s swathes of colour themed perennials or bright clusters of bedding plants spilling from hanging baskets and containers.

Planting up summer bedding plants such as geraniums, lobelia and impatiens in containers and hanging baskets will instantly brighten up your porch or patio and last well into the autumn months.

If a late arrival of spring has delayed progress in your garden, it’s not too late to get your garden in order by weeding, pruning, controlling pests and growing on herbs and vegetables for a late summer harvest.

You can still find plenty impulsive flowering shrubs and perennials at the garden centre ready to fill gaps in beds and borders but do water newly planted specimens regularly, especially in hot weather.

Autumn

The rich changing leaf colours of maples and cherries combine with seed-heads and berries signaling the beginning of the end of the growing season. Autumn is nature’s time for planting, when the ground is moist and cool giving the maximum opportunity for plants to establish roots and settle into their new environment. Plant trees, shrubs, roses, fruit bushes and hedging at this time of year to give them the best possible start.

For people with an allotment or kitchen garden many varieties of vegetable can be planted in autumn. These include Brussels sprouts, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, celery, garlic, kale, leeks, lettuce, onions, parsley, peas, potatoes, radishes, spinach and turnips.

Start planting spring flowering bulbs such as daffodils or crocuses which are available at the garden centre now to give them time to settle before spring.

Summer blooming shrubs should be pruned for shape after they have finished flowering. Remove any dead or diseased branches. This is also the best time to move older plants to a new position in the garden.

Don’t forget to bring in tender plants under cover before the first frosts. Plant out fresh colour by doorways and in your patio containers and baskets with combinations of winter pansies, cyclamen and shapely evergreen foliage to welcome you home through the dark winter months.

Winter

There is no need to live with a garden lacking in life and colour. Christmas is the opportunity to enjoy the winter garden with an illuminated fir tree alongside displays of scented sarcoccoca, winter flowering hellebores and attractive barks such as birch and dogwoods.

Doors decorated with natural outdoor wreaths or sprigs of mistletoe and holly brighten your garden and home regardless of the winter chills.

January and February is also a great time to do maintenance jobs on garden structures and to start planning for new garden features to be ready for the start of next spring.

Remember last year when we had the best toboganning weather for years and there were no sledges to be found? Well to help make sure you are ready to make the most of the fun of a meaningful snowfall we have bought in sledges early; they are in stock NOW! With a number of different styles, priced from only £6.99 it's worth buying one while they are available- we have been forecasted another cold winter and they will sell out quickly. With the fun being dealt with it is also important to have the right tools for the job to keep your path and driveways clear of snow; we have again bought stock of quality snow shovels in early so buy them soon as demand is likely to outstrip supply!