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Order Collection Service Available
With no update on when we will be allowed to open the garden we have consulted with industry colleagues and the police and can now offer a collection service for all orders.
This means that your order will be ready much quicker, and will free up our vans to deliver more efficiently to those shielding. Just let us know when you place your order whether you would like delivery or collection. Collected orders can often be ready the next day (subject to volume and demand), while deliveries can take up to two weeks.
If you have already placed an order and are waiting for delivery but would now rather collect please call us after 4pm on 01835 830315 and leave a message on the answer phone clearly stating your name, address and contact number and we’ll let you know when you can collect. Collections are from our car park, and collection points are well spread out to ensure we comply to social distancing guidelines.
All orders are still be ing taken by phone 01835 830315 between 10am – 12pm, and 1pm – 3pm Monday to Saturday, and 10am – 12pm on Sundays.
Saturdays and Sundays are usually the quietest days, so if you’re struggling to get through I would suggest you try then.
Thanks for Your Support
Well, that was an Easter bank holiday weekend like no other, and one we’ll certainly remember for years to come! Thank you so much for continuing to support us. Here is an update on our ordering system and our stock.
Phone Ordering System
When I set up the phone ordering system at the onset of “lock-down” I was expecting a few calls a day and was planning on getting the garden at Woodside into shape while answering phones.
How wrong I was! Demand for Woodside gardening products is exceptionally high, and I’m working longer hours than usual to try to fulfil demand. We only have one phone line and each order takes a while to process as we have to physically pull off the stock while you’re on the phone. We’re trying to be as quick as we can, so please don’t take offence if we don’t have a good chat with you!
I can only accept telephone orders between 10am to 12pm and 1pm to 3pm daily. I cannot accept orders on the answerphone, and it is only phone orders. Sorry, but the office is not manned, so I cannot take orders via Facebook, text, or emails. It is far from ideal for all of us, but it’s the only way we can do it. Laura is now back at work with me, so I’m getting stuck into the back-log of deliveries that need to go out. Waiting time for deliveries could be up to 2 weeks, but I’ll get round you all as quick as I can – the Borders is very large and my van is quite small!
If I can catch up on deliveries we may be able to extend our phone order times so that more of you can order – I’ll let you know if we can do this.
Please note the following:
- Minimum order for free delivery is £35
- We can only deliver to TD postcodes
- We are operating a “kerbside” delivery system to keep both us and you safe. If you want your items to be left somewhere specific please let us know when you order.
- Please don’t come out and see me, or offer to help unload – a wave from the window would be appreciated!
Available Stock
Compost:
We have plenty of compost now in stock with a delivery arriving to us just last week. If you are waiting for compost so that we can fulfil your order we are trying to get through as many calls as possible to get caught up.
Vegetable seeds
My vegetable seed supplier is still dispatching to us, and I had another delivery last week, so we have plenty of most varieties in stock and we’re happy to pull together an order of seeds for you.
Scatter Gardens
This popular range of seeds is back in stock with us. It’s a great way of creating a wildlife friendly garden space and each box of seeds costs £8.99 each or 2 boxes for £15. Simply prepare the ground, scatter the seeds, and watch the garden grow! Choose from: Ultimate Wildflower Mix, Classic Meadow Mix, Woodland Shade Mix, Bee Friendly Mix, Cornfield Annual Mix and Fragrant Annuals Mix.
Seed Potatoes
There has been an exceptionally high demand for these, and we have managed to get another delivery in to us. Varieties are:
First Earlies – Foremost, International Kidney (Jersey Royals)
2nd Earlies – Estima, Wilja, Nicola and Maris Peer
Maincrop: Markies, Kerrs Pink and Pink Fir Apple.
They are all £3.99 per 2kg bag which probably has around 30 tubers per bag. We are unable to split bags at this time.
Bedding Plants
Although it’s still quite early for summer bedding plants, we currently have the following ready:
Packs of 6 £3.50 per pack – 4 packs for £12
Violas: Yellow Jump Up, Purple Babyface, Pink Halo, and Mixed
Pansy: Clear yellow, Deep Orange, True Blue, Pink Shades and Mixed
Lobelia: Upright Blue, Cambridge Blue, White Lady and Rosamund (Pink)
Lobelia: Trailing Mixed, Fountain White, Fountain Blue, Sapphire
Tub and Basket Plants £2.50 each – let us pick out a selection of 6 for £12
Lysimachia aurea
Ivy silver or gold
Nepeta variegats
Felicia blue
Diascia pink or orange
Helichrysum silver or gold
Trixies – 3 in 1 plants suitable for easy planting of hanging baskets and tuns. £3.99 each
Cherry Kiss (pink mix)
Blueberry Parfait (blues and pinks)
Ayers Rock (hot colours)
Please note that we cannot take advance orders for any plants not in stock, as we cannot guarantee supply.
Vegetable Plants
If you fancy having a go at “Grow Your Own”, or are already an exprienced grower, we have a good range of baby plants for you:
Tomatoes – our range may include Shirley, Moneymaker, Alicante, Ailsa Craig, Beefmaster, Golden Sunrise, Floridity, Gardener’s Delight. There are £1.75 each – let us pick out a selection of 6 for you at £12 for 6.
Vegetable Packs – these are in packs of 12 and are £3.50 each or 4 for £12
Leek Musselburgh, Onion Ailsa Craig, Rocket, Lettuce Marvel of 4 Seasons, Lettuce All Year Round, Lettuce Green Salad Bowl, Lettuce Red Salad Bowl, Cabbage Durham Early, Cabbage Advantage, Red Cabbage, Cauliflower, Brussel Sprouts, Purple Sprouting Broccoli, Pea Sweet Horizon, Pea Kelvedon Wonder, Dwarf French Bean, Broad Bean, and Sweetcorn. We also have Curled Parsley in packs of 6 plants at the same price, and packs of 12 Kelsae Onions at £6 per pack.
Fruit Plants
We are currently out of stock of fruit trees while we wait for another batch to be ready – probably in 2-3 weeks time. However I’ve just had a large delivery of fruit bushes and now have the following in stock:
Blackcurrants – Baldwin or Ben Lomond £6.99
White Currants £6.99
Red Currants £6.99
Pink Currants £7.99
Blueberry – Darrow, Jersey, Pink Lemonade £9.99
Gooseberries – Hinnonmaki Green or Red, Careless £7.99
Loganberry £7.99
Jostaberry £7.99
Raspberry – packs of 5 potted plants £8.99 – Glen Prosen, Malling Leo, Autumn Bliss and All Gold
Rhubarb – Champagne, Glaskins Perpetual or Victoria £7.99
Blackberry Bedfordshire Giant £8.99
Roses
I’ve just had a new delivery of roses:
Flower Carpet Roses – long flowering period, easy to grow, disease resistant, the only thing they lack is fragrance, but you can’t have everything!
We have the following colours £9.99 each:
Pink Supreme, Red Velvet, Amber, Sunset, White, Scarlet
Classic Shrub Roses £12.99 each:
All fragrant and looking full of vigour
Compassion (Apricot)
Maiden’s Bush (Blush pink)
Comte de Chambord (double pink, very fragrant)
Cardinal de Richelieu (Purple)
Felicia (Silvery pink)
Climbers and Ramblers £14.99 each:
Albertine (Pink)
Golden Showers (Yellow)
Galway Bay (Pink)
Penny Lane (Pale yellow)
Crimson Cascade
Maigold (Warm yellow/ornage)
Dublin Bay (red)
Shrubs:
My regular shrub supplier appears to have stopped trading for now, but I’ve managed to find another source of Scottish grown shrubs and highlights from this week’s delivery includes:
Hebes – Caledonia £10.99, Purple Pixie £10.99 and Nicola’s Blush £8.99
Ceanothus – Italian Skies and Concha £11.99
Viburnam plicatum Mariesii £20.99 and davidii £10.99. The V. davidii are looking exceptional with lots of flower and bud
Ribes King Edward £10.99
Forsythia Weekend £8.99 – very large plants for the price and full of cheerful flowers
Hydrangea petiolaris £11.99 – this is the climbing form
Photinia Red Robin £11.99 Beautiful plants
Portugese Laurel £8.99
We also have a good range of Rhododendrons and deciduous Azaleas – just let us know what colour you are looking for and we’ll pick out a plant for you.
Herbaceous Plants:
These are our own home grown plants and some of the best plants for this week are:
Nepeta Walkers Low and Six Hills Giant (Catmint)
Knautia macedonica Red Knight
Geum rivale (in bud)
Potentilla Miss Wilmott and nepalense Ron McBeth
Campanula perscifolia White
Circium rivale
Astrantia Roma
Eryngium Jos Eijking and Blue Lagoon.
Prices range from £6.99 – £8.99 for most herbaceous plants
Rockery Plants:
We still have some of these available and are hoping to get more this week as they are really popular. Let us select 3 for £12 for you.
Herbs and Strawberries:
We still have some herbs left, but not all varieties previously listed. Basil is a new addition. Plenty of strawberries – Honeye, Cambridge Favourite, Elsanta and Pegasus. £2.50 each or 3 for £12
Bulbs:
A limited selection of potted bulbs are still available. Muscari Siberian Tiger is looking wonderful and are in bud and flower £3.49 each. Let us pick off a selection of potted hyacinths for you at 5 for £12, suitable for planting in the garden, in a tub or simply sitting on a windowsill to cheer up the house.
Carry on Gardening
Updated on 21st March
Woodside is OPEN and busy with people stocking up on gardening supplies. We’ve just had new deliveries of vegetable seeds and compost – so come in and get stocked up. Seed potatoes are selling fast and I’m trying to get more in to cope with increased demand.
For those of you who are self-isolating or who feel too vulnerable to come in please do phone us to discuss your requirements and pay over the phone. If you are unable to come in and you live within a 10 mile radius of Woodside (and because I live near Kelso, the whole of the Kelso area) we are now operating a FREE delivery service. Charges apply outside these areas, but if I can tie in several deliveries then I’ll bring down the cost. Of course we are happy to post out smaller items for you for the price of the postage. Just call on 01835 830315 and we’ll do our best to help.
Tea room
Our tearoom is currently OPEN but for take-away only. We will be serving hot and cold drinks, sandwiches and cake.
It is “business as usual” at the nursery site near Kelso with bedding plants coming on ready for the season ahead. Yesterday Stephen and I pricked out around 3000 Kelsae onion plants – so at least we’ll have plenty of onions to eat! These will be ready next month, and again we can post these out or arrange to have them delivered to you.
Spring Plants Now for Sale
A colourful new delivery of primroses, bulbs, saxifrages and a few herbaceous plants has arrived this week. So far we seem to have avoided the worst of the weather here in the Borders, so lets hope that continues this weekend.
Primroses
Look out for the striking flowers of Primrose Sirococco (see photo) and Primrose Zebra, and enjoy the old-fashioned blooms of Primrose Gold Lace and Red Lace. All the primroses are in bud and flower and would look good in a cool room in the house or planted outside in a container or in the border. These are perennial plants so will come back year after year once planted in the right spot.
The saxifrages are also looking bright and cheerful and are available in pinks, reds and whites and as individual pots or in packs of 6. An unusual Iris – Katharine Hodgkin, is also now available. It’s a much sought after variety with pale blue flowers and a dwarf habit, and is just coming into
flower now.
Dragonstone
We’ve also had a delivery of garden statues from Dragonstone (the stoneware company, not a location in Game of Thrones!) and we now have back in stock a variety of ornaments including frogs, sparrows, badger, fox, imps andmuch more.
Next week we will have more garden shrubs available as well as Snowdrops “in the green” so look out for these too.
Reminder that centre is open, but tearoom is closed for 2 weeks for maintenance
Just a reminder that we are closing the tearoom at Woodside Garden Centre, Jedbrgh, for 2 weeks from 27th January while we carry out essential repair works to the kitchen and redecorate.
Teas and Coffees Still available in the Plant Shop
The plant shop will be open as usual during this time and we’ll be offering teas and coffees in there, to keep you warm while you browse. If everything all goes to plan (fingers crossed) the tearoom will be open again on the 10th February with a new kitchen and freshly painted ready for another busy year!
A Few Winter Warmers
Remember from 1st November we start our winter opening times of 10am – 4pm daily. We stay open right through the winter, closing only for Christmas and New Year.
Although the weather is chilly, Woodside is full of winter warmers: with a wood burning stove in the tearoom you can keep warm and watch the feeding birds up close with a slice of Pat’s delicious Spiced Toffee Apple cake(subject to availability) and freshly roasted coffee from Fairtrade supplier Three Hills Coffee of Selkirk.
New to the tea room menu are Club Sandwiches and a range of cold drinks, including alcohol-free lager.
Christmas just around the corner
As Christmas is approaching, we are beginning to take orders for our handmade fresh wreaths suitable for doors or for the cemetery. Christmas decorations and gifts are beginning to sneak into the plant centre shop now, with our main display being ready in early November.
As a small independent shop we can buy the things that we like – we’re not restricted to central buying contracts like many of the bigger shops. This means that you’ll nearly always find something unusual that you won’t see elsewhere, so if you haven’t shopped with us before at Christmas, please do have a look this year – you will be surprised how much we can fit into our little space. Our range includes light up reindeer, climbing squirrels (yes, really) children’s toys and games, novelty signs, battery powered lights, garlands and load more. And of course we stock real Nordmann Christmas Trees from the last week in November.
Loyalty Card Offer
There is just a week to go on our loyalty card holder offer
I know that there are lots of full loyalty cards now in circulation after a busy spring buying plants! Up until 17th June, we are offering 10% OFF all bedding and vegetable plants when you hand in a full loyalty card ( 1 card per transaction).
Let us know at the beginning of the transaction that you will be redeeming a full card, so that we can process your discount.
Wildlife and Wellbeing Garden needs your help
Our registered charity – the Woodside Garden for Wildlife and Wellbeing (WGWW) – would appreciate some help.
Moving stones
Our major project for the year is the building of a drystane seating area in the wildlife garden, suitable for wheelchair users to access. On Thursday 6th June we are having some stone delivered, and we would like some help to shift it! It’s expected to arrive at about 11am, and will probably take around an hour to move. If you’d like to help, please turn up with sturdy shoes and gloves.
Publicity/social media assistant
We are also looking for someone to assist the Board members with publicity. You don’t need to become a member of the Board (although we would be delighted to have new members) and you don’t need to commit to regular times. All you need is an enthusiasm for using social media, such as Facebook, and the willingness to learn how to update the charity’s website. If this interests you, either come in and see me (Emma) or, better still, drop in at one of the Wednesday Weeding Workout sessions to meet other volunteers.
You can see more of charity’s work on the facebook page
More Vegetable Plants in Stock
If you are planning to grow your own vegetables this summer, now is the time to get planting. We have some varieties home-grown from seed and ready to plan on. Varieties currently available include lettuce, garlic kale, scarlet kale, courgette and calabrese. Also a good range of greenhouse vegetables such as tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers.
Local Vegetable Plants
We are pleased that we can work with other local suppliers too, enabling us to bring you a wider selection. Further choices includes: runner beans, leeks, french beans, sprouts, broccoli, cabbage, carrot, parsley, peas, sweetcorn and swede.
Have a peek through the greenhouse door and you’ll see I’ve got plenty more coming on, including broad beans, climbing courgettes and coriander.
Hello from a busy Woodside
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Hello from a busy Woodside, with lots of new deliveries of plants, furniture, roses, compost and much more arriving daily keeping us all on our toes!
After glorious weather this bank holiday we are now getting restocked and this week we are getting deliveries of: herbs, strawberries, herbaceous plants, bedding plants, roses (which are late in this year due to banking issues with TSB – apologies to all who have been waiting for them), shrubs, 13cm Rockery and Herbaceous plants at 3 for £10, cucumbers, peppers and tomatoes.
Naomi and the tearoom team have also had a busy time, and the oven has been full of delicious cakes ready to serve and enjoy. Look out for our new Pimms Cake for ultimate indulgence!
I’ve also got some dates for your diary:
Friday 11th May – Evening Dining in the Kailyaird Restaurant. – see menu below. Please book a table on 01835 830315.
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Saturday 12th May – Basket Making Workshop with Roger Ingledew. We still have some spaces left for this popular workshop, which requires no previous experience. Roger will provide all the materials and tuition you need to create a basket to take home and show off! £60 per person including lunch. 10am – 3pm. A great way to spend a day. Please book by phoning 01835 830315
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Tuesday 22nd May – Volunteer day in the Woodside Garden for Wildlife and Wellbeing. Come along to an informal session in our newly re-launched charity garden, find out how you can help as a volunteer, and enjoy some light gardening work under the direction of our gardener Joanne. FREE. Please call us on 01835 830315 to let us know some idea of numbers. 10am start – flexible finish time!
Saturday 16th June – Willow weaving workshop with Roger Ingledew. Make a willlow wig-wam for all your climbing plants. Again, you don’t need to have any experience and all materials, tuition, and lunch are all provided for £60 per person. 10am – 3pm. Book by phoning 01835 830315
Saturday 14th July – Equestrian Theatre at Woodside “The Age of Nottingham”. Unique entertainment featuring beautiful Fresian and Andalusian horses, suitable for adults and children. Ticket price includes a two-course buffet supper. Gates open at 6.30pm. Adults £18, under 16’s £12. Family ticket £50. Tickets available soon.
Kailyaird Restaurant Menu – 11th May
Starters: Warm pear, walnut and parmesan salad, Roasted garlic and chickpea pate with garlicky oatcakes, or Pea and pesto soup with rye bread
Main courses: Slow cooked Moroccan lamb stew with spiced cous-cous, Mushroom risotto, Spiced halloumi on a bed of warm puy lentils, with a spinach and beetroot salad, or Thai style root vegetable casserole.
Puddings: Chocolate mousse, Rhubarb and ginger brulee, Pimms jelly or cheese and biscuits.
Please phone to book a table. Please let us know if you have any dietary requirements when booking. If you can’t make it this week to our evening restaurant our next date is May 25th.
See you soon,
Emma
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