Long Acre Plants

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Specializing in Shade Loving Plants

The nursery will be closed to visitors the week of the 6th May as we will be away at Malvern Spring Flower Show .

Long Acre Plants is essentially a plantsman's nursery in the hidden triangle of Somerset that slides into Dorset and Wiltshire. We specialise in unusual woodland plants and plants for shade in general. This includes Erythronium, Epimedium, hardy ferns, hardy geraniums, hellebores, snowdrops, Viola odorata and Hepatica amongst many other shade loving plants.
Plants are the reason for this business and with a very few exceptions we grow what we like, for all the usual human reasons of association, perception of what is beautiful or just inexplicable love.
We try and grow in an environmentally aware way, including peat free compost, collecting and recycling rain water and using recycled paper. Plus all electricity used in the nursery and office is generated by wind or hydro, not through burning fossil fuels.
Please take a look through our extensive catalogue, make your selections and order online. If you would prefer to use an offline ordering system download the catalogue below.

A paper catalogue is also available by contacting the nursery, we do ask 3 x1st class stamps for a copy.

Click here to download and view a pdf copy of our 2008 catalogue.

You can place the order online and print out the receipt and send it to us with a cheque, please select "forward cheque" in payment options or pay by credit card or paypal in the normal way.

RHS Gardens, National Trust and National Trust For Scotland

All our plants are peat free and we supply the gardens of and have accounts with all three organisations. If you would like to order, please add to the shopping cart the order as needed and checkout as normal, on the payment options choose "print out receipt and forward with cheque". Please print the receipt out once you have submitted the order and forward your order number/purchase order when you have it.

Telephone number for nursery 01963 32802 usually a human is available in the mornings during midweek days.

Hellebores
A wide range of Helleborus which provide a wealth of different colours to the spring garden. Including a double form of Helleborus niger.

Viola odorata
A large range of sweet violets, they thrive in a shade spot producing sweetly scented blooms in the first few months of the year. These native hedgerow or woodland edge plants are easy and vigorous garden plants. Go to the collections page above where we do a selection of different forms and colours available as package.

Ferns
A large range of these wonderful woodland or shade garden plants many evergreen and others deciduous. Mostly for shade but some will take almost full sun, some are good in dry soils others in moist. A huge range.

Geranium
Hardy geraniums are amazingly good for shade even dry shade. They are summer flowering so often give colour to any shade area during the most difficult time. We find that they combine well with spring bulbs; snowdrops through to Erythronium. The geraniums cover the gaps after the bulbs finish and give another season of colour.

Best Selling Plants

Gillenia trifoliata AGM £4.00 Semi-shaded well drained spot will have this flowering most of the Summer, with white butterflies. find out more	Pulmonaria 'Blue Ensign' £4.00 Best of the blues, better than ‘Mawson’s Blue’ in flower size but a shade lighter in colour. Recently voted the best by the HPS Pulmonaria Group. find out more	Dryopteris affinis 'Cristata' The King Fern £4.00 A magnificent fern with splendid crests and arching fronds, said to be the 'King of the British Ferns'. To 4' tall. Very effective in a pot against a north facing wall. . Semi-evergreen. find out more

Viola odorata collection £10.00 Five different forms of the native sweet violet suitable for a shady border. They will be in a range of colours as available and established in 9cm pots. find out more	Galium odoratum £2.50 We were asked for sweet woodruff often enough that we have started growing it. Mythical thug for a shady spot where it can spread and display its white flowers in Spring. Will tolerate dry soils. find out more	Erythronium californicum 'White Beauty' AGM £3.50 Easy lovely form of Erythronium californicum, best of the whites for the garden. find out more

Epimedium x versicolor 'Sulphureum' AGM £3.50 Easy pale lemon yellow flowered species, good ground cover. find out more	Aster divaricatus £3.50 A very lovely species aster which is easy, mildew free, with shiny dark black stems with whte flowers atop the zig zag stems in the autumn. find out more	Brunnera macrophylla 'Jack Frost' PP13859 PBR 1799 £4.00 Fully silvered leaves and blue flowers. Showed great vigour even in dry conditions. find out more

New Woodland Plants .

Podophyllum 'Spotty Dotty' £10.50 A tissue cultured form with very highly marked new leaves. Fades slightly later. Deep red flowers. For moisture retentive soil in shade. find out more	Geranium phaeum 'Connie Broe' £4.00 A variegated form with gold netted foliage on the new leaves. Dark purple flowers. find out more	Geranium phaeum 'Raven' £4.00 H 45cm W 40cm A lovely form with plain pale green leaves and dark raven black flowers. find out more

Hosta sieboldii 'Kapitan' £4.00 A dwarf hosta to around 4" tall with glowing golden yellow leaves with a narrow green rim. find out more	Geranium shikokianum £4.00 Quite an unusual species from Japan with mid pink flower, lined with purple and well marked leaves. To 15cm or so tall and 60 cm wide. Best in semi-shade. find out more	Geranium pratense 'Mrs Kendal Clarke' £4.00 A lovely form with light blue lined white flowers in masses, upringht growing to some 70cm or more tall. very tolerant. find out more

Vinca major 'Expoflora' £3.50 A bright silver variegated form with blue flowers. find out more	Vinca major 'Wojo's Gem' £3.50 A yellow centred good doer a very good plant for dry shade. find out more	Campanula persicifolia 'Kelly's Gold' £4.00 Totally gold leaves with white flowers later, good contrast. find out more

x Heucharella 'Dayglow Pink' £5.00 A fine form with bright pink flowers over a very long period and blotched notched foliage all year. find out more	Hosta 'Liberty' £5.00 A new form with very boldly marked foliage. To 60 cm accross. find out more	Heuchera 'Brownies' £5.00 A large growing variety, with leaves the colour of brownies. It has a lot of H. villosa in it so is very tolerant of drier soils. to 60 cm across. find out more

Heuchera 'Mocha' £5.00 A very dark almost black foliage form. Lovely for contrast. To 45cm accross. find out more	Astrantia 'Abbey Road' £5.00 A new very day almost purple form, multi flowered heads create quite a show. find out more	Geranium phaeum 'Connie Broe' £4.00 A variegated form with a reticulate gold veining on the flowering stem leaves. Very different to normal forms. find out more

Thalictrum 'Black Stockings' £5.00 A new cultivar with netted black stems and deep purple flowers. To 1m high and 45cm wide. find out more	Polystichum setiferum 'Caernarvon' £4.00 A new very good form of divisilobum which is almost flat growing with deeply indented pinnae. Collected near Caernavon. find out more	Osmunda regalis 'Southern Form' £5.00 We imported these as tissue cultured plugs from the USA in the hope of securing some of these giant royal ferns. Time will tell how they do in the UK. find out more