Best Online Nursery for Woodland Plants


A recent article (September 2107) in the Telegraph listed the best online nursery sites, we were very flattered to be listed as the Best Woodland Plant Type and in the top 20 of the best online nurseries.
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December 2015 - Gardens Illustrated Special Edition - We were delighted to be included in Val Bourne's 20 Best Nurseries List where she comments "A full range of shade-loving perennials, grasses and ferns grown by an expert plantsman. Lots of information on the website and the best packed mail order I have ever seen."


August 2018 - Gardens Illustrated - 50 Best Plant Nurseries - We were thrilled to be listed once again.
"A full range of shade-loving perennials, grasses and ferns grown by expert plantsman. Lots of information, including dry shade plants, on the website and the best packed mail order ever.
Excellent mail order"

Best Selling Plants

Gillenia trifoliata AGM

Gillenia trifoliata AGM

£8.95 (2 or fewer items) £8.50 (3 or more items)

A plant that has become increasingly popular as gardeners recognise its quiet beauty. White star flowers that have a fluttering butterfly quality about them, reddish stems and calyxs, followed by berries and coloured foliage in Autumn. A semi-shaded well drained spot will have this flowering most of the Summer. Use to the front of a shade border to fully appreciate its beauty. A rhizomatous perennial, that is gradually clump forming.
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Asplenium scolopendrium AGM

Asplenium scolopendrium AGM

£6.95 (2 or fewer items) £6.50 (3 or more items)

The native wild form of this easy and very useful evergreen fern. Strap shaped, long undivided fronds giving the plant it's common name Hart's (deer) Tongue fern. Grows better on alkaline to neutral soils. Happy in damp shade but also in dry shade once established. This fern works brilliantly with other ferns, hostas and bergenias.
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Adiantum aleuticum 'Imbricatum'

Adiantum aleuticum 'Imbricatum'

£9.00 (2 or fewer items) £8.50 (3 or more items)

A short growing form with imbricate pinnules to this easy hardy maidenhair fern. To 20 cm tall.
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Primula elatior AGM

Primula elatior AGM

£7.50 (2 or fewer items) £6.95 (3 or more items)

The native oxslip, lovely in a woodland/shade situation. Not botanically correct but for all the world looks like a natural hybrid between a cowslip and primrose. A wonderfully cheery plant.


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Salvia omeiana 'Crug Thundercloud'

Salvia omeiana 'Crug Thundercloud'

£9.00

A Chinese species with deep purple undersides to the rugged leaves. Large yellow flowers from Summer onwards till the frosts. Is proving very hardy with us in Somerset, worth a try anywhere.
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Primula japonica 'Apple Blossom'

Primula japonica 'Apple Blossom'

£6.50 (2 or fewer items) £5.95 (3 or more items)

A lovely pale pink strain of this vigorous moisture loving candelabra primula.
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