Take a look at our Chelsea inspired display on our nursery.
Weekly catch up with gardens & propagation
POSTED 1st May 2025
Propagation Team
Plants have been finding their way over onto the nursery in great numbers! The glorious Mel was particularly pleased with the root quality of Tritonia disticha subsp. rubrolucens, Penstemon 'Sour Grapes' and Thalictrum delavayi 'Album' which will enchant your garden with flowers come the summer.
Elsewhere, much progress has been made in our display overhaul on the nursery. Emily and Hollie have created a truly spectacular sempervivum display, and we've been so pleased to hear how much those who have visited us during the last couple of days are enjoying the collection.
Whilst Annie and Mel created a jewel of a shade loving display, utilising a mixture of texture and colour to create something truly captivating.
The stock bed team, when not lifting, splitting and potting, gave some of their time to helping Nicola and Sara from the Beth Chatto Education Trust, who are transforming a recently unused plot of land into an edible garden- we are so excited to see how it progresses!
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Garden Team
It’s been a hot week in the garden so we’ve had to plan our days around the weather. Mornings have been spent in the Gravel Garden editing out seedlings of prolific seeders such as verbena and verbascum. Sybille did a fabulous job reducing one of the big variegated euonymus that was getting a bit too big for its space.
In the hotter afternoons we’ve retrieved to the lush woodland where it’s a delight to work under the cooling canopy of the trees. The green tapestry is beautiful, full of grasses, epimediums, tellima and polygonatum to mention a few. In the wood we’ve been deadheading the hellebores to avoid new seedlings. As nice as it may sound with hellebore seedlings - they can be a bit of a problem. The colours of the flowers of new plants often come out quite wishy washy, so we cut the flowers before they set seed. We did however keep a bucket full of seed heads for Emily to experiment with in propagation. By letting the seedlings flower and marking out which ones look nice with a cane, hopefully we’ll have some new nice crosses a couple of years down the line.
Yesterday, we tidied up the patios around Beth’s house as we’re opening it up to the public this bank holiday weekend. Please come and see us and enjoy the garden.
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