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Welcome to my early autumn blog. Orders are starting to taper now but, we have had another very busy year. The weather has been great and has really encouraged everyone to get out in their gardens. The benefits that a pond can bring to a garden are more widely appreciated now, and this has been […]

Welcome to my winter blog. As I write, the rain and hail is hammering on the roof and the wind is strong enough to carry away a hippopotamus, but already the first signs of Spring are there. The first frogspawn has appeared and the frog chorus is noticeable during the early and late hours. In

Well, here we are at the end of what has been an unremarkable summer with few extremes. Watering has been much less of a chore than normal, and temperatures have been mostly on the cool side of expectations. It’s been another busy year though, and we have picked up a number of new trade clients

Hello everybody; we have enjoyed some “interesting” weather this winter, our polytunnels have been damaged and re-covered due to the gales, we have been inundated with the most rain on record and the temperatures have been unseasonably high. Every year the orders seem to come earlier and earlier, and we have had a record February

Hello everybody In my previous blog you will have read about some of the challenges of building a natural swimming pond, and today I would like to talk a bit more about plant selection. The importance of having a large area of very shallow water available for marginal plants cannot be overstated; the best depth

Hello everybody 2024 is here at last; I think we are all looking forward to a break from all the depressing news which has assailed us for the last three years, not sure we’re going to get one though. One sure way to relieve stress levels is to introduce water into your environment in the

Welcome to our late autumn blog. After a very warm autumn the heavens have opened, and everything here is absolutely waterlogged. Several late summer and autumn pond construction projects have been delayed, which has meant that the scheduled planting has not taken place. However, we strongly recommend not buying any bare rooted plants in December,

Welcome to my blog; after a gloriously rainy week – a respite from outdoor watering for a while – our plants are all breathing a sigh of relief. Our ponds had dropped noticeably in the last few dry weeks and some plants were beginning to show signs of stress. Marginal plants are of course adapted

Hello everyone Just a few words this time to say how much we have enjoyed welcoming customers back to our nursery. Thursdays and Fridays have been quite busy (though thankfully not the madness of the past two years) and plants are beginning to perk up after the decidedly cool spring. Some varieties aren’t available by

Welcome to my Spring blog, at last the rain is getting warmer, there is new growth everywhere and it isn’t so hard to motivate ourselves. The changes that we have made to our mail order catalogue have allowed us a little more sanity over Easter and now the nursery is quite shipshape. A lot of