Long Acre Plants

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Specializing in Shade Loving Plants
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, Heuchera, 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.

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

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 2009 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.

Helleborus
A big range of hellebores available for immediate delivery. These helleborus are hand pollinated vigorous breeding line produced plants that are of a type but all slightly different. The hellebores are very good plants for the woodland garden and come in a large range of colours and are pretty much trouble free. We do have some unusual forms such as Double Helleborus niger and Helleborus thibitanus available.

Tiarella
Tiarella is a lovely group of plants, hugely developed over the last few years. The basic running Tiarella cordifolia or foamflower and the clump forming Tiarella wherryi have been developed into a number of very shade tolerant and once established dry shade. The new Tiarella forms are evergreen but change throughout the year, with leaf colour and form.

Ferns
We offer large range of these wonderful woodland or shade garden ferns, many evergreen and others deciduous. Mostly ferns are best in shade but some ferns will take almost full sun, some are good in dry soils others in moist. Ferns fit into many different style of gardens, Japanese type gardens as opposite, woodland gardens, cottage gardens, courtyards, city gardens, tropical/ foliage style gardens even alpine gardens can look well with a range of dwarf ferns, as well as pure ferns gardens or stumperies. Ferns fit into practically all garden situations and will combine well with other plants for example deciduous ferns can be grown well ion the same situation as a large winter/spring bulb display, with for example aconites, cyclamen, galanthus, narcissus and erythronium etc.

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

Heuchera
Heuchera is a genus which has been developed over the last 10 years or so into a huge range of forms, that thrive in British gardens. Heuchera are very tough and will tolerate and even thrive in a semi-shaded postion, they are not pH sensitive. Heucheras are very popular due to the evergreen nature of the plants and the wealth of foliage colours that are available, so provide good foliage but are not attacked by slugs or snails like hostas. Heuchera thive in the open ground but they also make very good plants to add to pots or raised beds, giving colour all year around. Heuchera can grow out of the ground over time and lifting and replanting deeper will re-invigorate old plants. Heuchera are remarkably pest and disease free, but vine weevil larvae will feed on unprotected roots and may need treatment.

Best Selling Plants

Heuchera 'Peach Flambe' £4.00 H30cm x W40cm This amazing plant is bright peach coloured in spring and Autumn, a softer peach in the summer and plum during the winter, with white flowers. Differs from 'Marmalade' & 'Amber Waves' with larger smoother leaves and flaming red infusions. 1 litre pots. Propagation for resale without a license illegal R20615 find out more	Heuchera 'Georgia Peach' £4.00 Quite a startling heuchera with pinky peachy coloured leaves all year around particularly the new leaves just glow.. find out more	Geranium 'Brookside' £4.00 I think this is one of the best introductions of the last ten years, compact habit with clear blue white eyed flowers over a long time. find out more

Helleborus x hybridus Double Mixed 3 x 1 Litre Plants £12.00 3 x hybridus doubles, multiflowered vigorous forms. We are offering a batch of 1 litre double flowered hellebores as a mixed batch therefore offering a huge saving. All should flower this Spring. Please note these are only available as mixed colours. find out more	Asplenium scolopendrium £3.00 The native wild form of this easy evergreen fern. Grows better on alkaline to neutral soils. 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

Heuchera 'Midnight Rose' £4.00 H30cm x W40cm A lovely new deep red leaved form flecked with pink. 1 litre pots. PVR license applied for. We have ended up with a large over supply on this Heuchera so have been able to offer some attractive offers on this lovely easily grown heuchera, see below. 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	Astrantia 'Buckland' £4.00 Pink buttons surrounded by white bracts on this classic cultivar. find out more

New Woodland Plants .

Heuchera 'Key lime Pie' £4.00 A fine lime green form less ruffled than 'Lime Rickey' In a year Height 30cm Width 40cm Plant at 40cm Soils very wet or dry soils. Aspect - Semi shade best. find out more	Digitalis purpurea 'Snow Thimble' £3.00 A pure white strain of foxglove, will naturally seed around. find out more	Daphne x transatlantica 'Eternal Fragrance' £8.50 A lovely repeat flowering very fragrant shrub up to around 40cm tall and wide. Very garden worthy. Bred by Robin White of Blackthorn Nursery, propagation for resale illegal. find out more

Tiarella 'Mystic Mist' £4.00 A new vigorous variegated form, much stronger than previous forms. Height - 30cm in flower Width - 30cm Habit - clump forming, evergreen. Soil- Avoid very or very wet. Flowering - May onwards Planting distance - 40cm find out more	Heuchera 'Plum Royale' £4.00 A fine new form just out this year with vibrant plum shiny foliage, with lighter zoning and darker veins. In 1 year Height - 30cm Spread - 40cm Plant at 40cm centres, Aspect - Semi-shade Soil - most soils apart from very dry or wet find out more	Digitalis 'Glory of Roundway' £3.60 A lovely very perennial digitalis with Apricot pink flowers in late Spring and again later if you keep dead heading. Produced from division. In 1 year Height - 100cm Spread - 40cm Plant at 40cm centres, Aspect - Semi-shade Soil - most soils apart from very dry or wet. find out more

Geranium x oxonianum 'Southcombe Double' £4.00 Easy double pink flowered form, Summer flowering. In 1 year Height - 60cm Spread - 40cm Plant at 40cm centres, Flowers - June then to end August. Aspect - Semi-shade to full shade Soil - most soils apart from very dry or wet. find out more	Heuchera 'Plum Pudding £4.00 A very old culttivar, very reliable with plum purple mottled foliage, small white flowers. In 1 year Height - 30cm Spread - 40cm Plant at 40cm centres, Aspect - Semi-shade Soil - most soils apart from very dry or wet. find out more	Heuchera 'Tiramisu' £5.00 A fine new introduction with leaves all the shades of red to yellow you can imagine. at 1 year Height- 30cm Spread-45cm Habit-Evergreen, clump forming. Plant at 45cm Aspect/Soil-easy in semishade, avoid very dry or very wet. find out more

Heuchera 'Southern Comfort' £4.50 A fine vigorous new form with tan-caramel foliage. In 1 year Height - 30cm Spread - 40cm Plant at 40cm centres, Aspect - Semi-shade Soil - most soils apart from very dry or wet. find out more	x Heucharella 'Tapestry' £5.00 H40cm x W45cm A new form with silver mottled with burnished bronze flashes over heavily cut green leaves. Good pink flower, good flowers and good evergreen foliage. find out more	Geranium 'Kashmir Purple' £4.00 The purple flowered form of this group of good hardy easy long flowering geraniums particularly for semi-shade. find out more

Geranium 'Kashmir Pink' £4.00 A pink flowered of this very good group of hardy geraniums, slowly forms a ground cover and flowers all Summer, from may. find out more	Heuchera 'Gypsy Dancer' £4.50 A lovely form with pink flushed white flowers over pink pewter leaves with darker veins. find out more	Primula 'Bartley Hybrids' £3.00 A wonderfull of mixed whites through to Purple, but mainly pinks candelabra primula. find out more

Digitalis purpurea 'Pam's Choice' £3.50 A fabulous strain on white flowered native foxgloves but with a dark red throat to the large flowers. Easy to establish and naturalise. find out more	Geranium 'Storm Chaser' £4.00 Another very good floppy hybrid with pearly pink dark eyed and veined flowers all summer, not for deep shade but thrives in semi- good for scrambling over edges etc. H15cm x W40cm find out more	Doronicum orientale 'Magnificum' £3.50 Rhizomatous deciduous perennial from woodland, Magnificum is a lrge flowered selection 4-5cm accross and will naturalise in any shady situation, particularly in a moist humus rich situation such as the north side of a wall. Flower late spring through early summer growing to 45cm tall. find out more