It’s been a very strange year. Bedding plant season traditionally runs until June, and although we’ll have stock (we’ll have a good range of Echinacea)

Echinacea purpurea

As well as a good variety of late perennial geranium, heuchera, delphinium, lupins and a few more robust perennials such as:Alstromeria hybrids.

Going into July we’ll continue stocking flowering perennials, and this year we’ll bring forward our autumn supply of young shrubs- so there’ll be over 200 varieties throughout the summer.

A very different season! Not the stock we’ll expect, far less annual summer bedding, far fewer baskets, but we’ll have plants nevertheless.

So one way or another- there’ll be colour for your garden!

Social Distancing Measures:

• Follow the one-way system
• 1 trolley per customer
• Keep 2m distance

We have screens and dividers, queuing measures, and will be consistently disinfecting our trolley handles. There is plenty of space.

Compost: sold out.

70L ornamental bark: £8.50

50L Manure: £5.00

In order to concentrate on keeping the nursery as safe and accessible as can be, we are NO LONGER ACCEPTING ORDERS FOR DELIVERY OR COLLECTION

On behalf of Max, Jake, and Lydia: A massive THANK YOU! to all customers throughout March and April. The response to our delivery service, the support and patience from you all was overwhelming. We can only apologise to those we didn’t quite manage to reach, and hope that we’ll see you in the near future.

Our opening hours are now as normal.

Without further ado, here’s a few items from the stock list I didn’t get around to posting last month:

Osteospermum 1L: £2.50

Agapanthus 3L: £20

Fatsia Spiders web 5L: £20

Alpines 1L: 3 for £10

Mandevilla 3L: £20

Erysimum 1.5L: £6

 

WE ARE ACCEPTING ORDERS FOR DELIVERY

STOCKLIST BELOW

Although the nursery site is closed, we are still trading. Here’s how to order plants-

• Please e-mail wattonnursery@gmail.com with specific orders. Please include your name, address, and phone number. It may take some time for us to reply, but rest assured we’ll get to you!
• MINIMUM ORDER: Due to overwhelming demand, we’re having to meet many deliveries via private courier. We ask that minimum order is in the region of £50
• We will accept only card payments over the phone. We will leave deliveries at your doorstep or nearest safe place.
• We cannot guarantee delivery times, although it will be between 10:00 and 16:00. Delivery is currently within 4 days of payment.
• Please do not worry about missing out! We have grown plenty for the season. Even if we are not open until June/July, we will still have plants ready and available, including hanging baskets/planters/seasonal plants.

 

STOCKLIST:

*Multipurpose 40L: 3 for £10

*Topsoil 25L, £5

*Ericaceous compost: £8.50

*Bedding plants: all varieties £5/tray of 15, except 9cm pelargoniums (geraniums) 60p each.

*HANGING BASKETS are now available. Trailing mixes, Illumination begonia, surfinia.

14″ wicker: £16.

16″ wicker: £19.

We have a huge range of seasonal plants this time of year. If you’re unsure what you may need, please e-mail me, leave your phone number and I’ll be sure to call ASAP to advise.

In the meantime, we have a great range of early spring stock all available for delivery. Here are some SAMPLES: 

Pelargonium (geranium) 1L: £2

Fuchsia 9cm upright: £1

Wicker basket 14″ mixed: £16

Maguerite tubs 10L: £15

French lavender 11cm: £2

Clematis hybrid: £10

Cosmos 9cm: £1

Brachycome daisy 9cm: £1

Salvia Farina blue/silver 11cm: £1.75

Monarda 2L: £5

Agastache 2L:£5

Iberis Candytuft 1L: £2.50

Strawberry 9cm (pink or white flower): £1.50

Gazania hardy 1L: £2.50

Seasonal planters 10L: £16

Rhododendron 3L: £12

Salvia Wendy’s Wishes 5L: £10

Salvia Kisses 5L: £10

Canna 1L: £2.50

 

Plaited willow 2′: £15

Diosma 2L: £7.50

Eucalyptus 1L: £7.50

Hardy Bonsai: £25

Fuchsia basket 5L: £7.50

 

Day Lillies: 2L: £6

Salix twisted stem: £15

Eremurus 3L: £12

 

Lupins ‘Lupini’ 2L: £5

Delphinium ‘Excaliber’ 2L: £5

Skimmia 2L: £8

Gunnera 3L: £12

Acers 15L: £45

Alstromeria 2L: £6.50

16″ wall basket: £16

All trailing 9cm: £1 each

Acer 3L: £15

Wisteria, 7L (blue and white), 6′: £45 (3′: £20)

Argyranthemum (marguerite) 1L- £2.50

Heuchera 1L- 3 for £10

Ceanothus 10L- £20 (various other sizes available)

Dianella: 15L specimen, £36

Aucuba: 10L specimen, £35

Edgeworthia: 3L, £20

Roses: Many varieties, £7-£8.

Hebes: many varieties, £7.50.

Lavender: £3 for 1lt. (many varieties)

 

 

NOTICE: WATTON NURSERY OPEN AS USUAL

The nursery is ready for the year, stocked, and looking great.

Plug plants and primulas will be here until the end of March.

In addition to this we have: Alpines, shrubs, climbers, hedging (some lovely new laurel and red robin bushes), a full stock of acers…

Acer dissectum Iniba Shidare

And there’s plenty more to come. We already have small perennials, and our larger stock (Lupins/heucheras, etc) will form a perfect complement from April onwards.

For sheer variety, this might be my favourite time of year. A few notable specimens to look out for (and hurry, they’ll be popular, I imagine), are as follows:

Nandina ‘Lemon and Lime’

 

Edgeworthia Chrysantha

And as I have promised a few of you, some smaller ones of these-

Euonymus alatus.

We also have some standard wisteria and lilac which I’m very excited about, and will probably photograph and post when they’re in flower, if they last on the nursery that long that is!

Until then, happy gardening!

Open from January 6th.

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January and February tend to be quiet. I’ll update this post in February to let you all know what’s coming in March (We aim to have the nursery looking INCREDIBLE from the 1st March onward) but in the meantime here’s what you can expect=

Primula Acaulis (Common names include: polyanthus/primula/prims)

The first of these are flowering in the next few weeks, and as a stop-gap bedding before the Spring season arrives, they’re perfect; hardy, colourful, low maintenance.

Bulbs can still be planted. We’ve potted up tete a tete, snowdrops, bluebells, daffs, crocus and many more. These are rooting now, although can be set at any point right up until spring.

It’s a good time for hedging! Although the majority of our laurel/red robin comes late Feb, there’s still a bit of native beech and privet. Better, it’s cheap this time of year, and conditions for planting are perfect.

In the meantime we’ll be busy growing the first plugs for the Spring season.

Best,

Max.

Christmas trees are here!

Lots of large specimens this year, so if you have the space we’ll most likely try and tempt you…

Scottish grown, sustainable Nordman fir

As well as trees we have our freshly made wreathes, designed in-house, created with holly grown on the nursery.

Expect to see smaller gifts and decorations too, including:

Wicker tree skirts,

Tree stands,

Pot grown blue fir,

Cyclamen,

Pot grown holly,

and my favourite, the year round berries of skimmia parbella, a perfect festive garden addition:

As usual, on at least one of the weekends you can expect to see us with the bbq on (we might even have a spare hot dog if you’re lucky), and perhaps even some mulled wine.

See you soon, and Merry Christmas!

Opening times: WINTER OPENING TIMES NOW IN EFFECT

Monday-Saturday: 9:30 – 16:00, Sunday: 10:00 – 16:00

From now until the end of October, we’ll have a full range of pansy and viola colours, as well as (due to high demand!) a far greater volume of dwarf wallflowers.

Cheiranthus cheiri. Flowers from autumn until well into the following summer.

We’re also stocking a far greater number and variety of year round salvia. Two of my favourite are available now,

Salvia Microphylla ‘wild watermelon’

And-

Salvia Greggii, wonderfully fragrant, surprisingly hardy.

These will be in stock most of the autumn alongside the usual range of calluna heather, goldcrest conifers, cyclamen, and much more. We now have a full stock of planted hanging baskets, and new this year, theme planted wooden barrel planters for only £15.

Let’s hope the autumn sun continues!

See you on the nursery,

Max.

The busy time for planting is over. Although the stock on the nursery is significantly less in the off season, we still have some excellent plants. Such as-

pelargonium (geraniums)

Which are excellent to fill in any summer gaps, and are still only 60p each. Further, we have an excellent selection of drought tolerant bedding begonia, 6 varieties of heuchera, and some beautiful-

Dahlia (available in various colours)

So- although the main thrust of the season is over, there is still plenty of interest.

On our growing site we are preparing to grow nursery stock shrubs, bulbs, and pansies- which will be ready for the next best time on the nursery- September/ October.

 

 

 

It’s that time of year when all is colourful. The nursery is no exception. We are, and will be fully stocked until at least July, with the best selection in May and early June.  Notable highlights are a fabulous crop of geranium-

pelargonium h. Zonals ‘violet

… which we stock in 10 different colours. Equally eye catching are our range of osteospermum, including my personal favourite,

osteospermum ‘blue eyed beauty’

These are only 2 of hundreds of different lines. So if you need seasonal colour of any sort; tubs, baskets (especially our range of illumination begonia), planters, shrubs, perennials and more, do come and see us!

 

Throughout this month we’ll be offering our biggest ever range of perennials. These are big, garden ready plants that will flower this year, including a huge range of Lupin…

… aubretia,

And many, many more. We have a large stock of verbena bonariensis, some of the best salvia varieties, and one of my personal favourites,

A classic- dicentra spectabilis.

Of course, that’s the tip of the iceberg. Our full range of seasonal bedding and basket plants arrive every day from our growing site. We have a full stock of:

Roses, fruit, herbs, shrubs, specimen standards, acers, spring planters.

This is very much the season! Any time this month, and certainly next, the nursery is at its very best. So come along, and I’ll see you there!

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Holiday opening times:

Bank holidays- 9:30 – 16:00

Easter day- closed