More Plants Available for Home Delivery

April 22, 2020 / Emma Emmerson

Compost

Well after another busy week selling plants for home delivery, our stock of compost is already dwindling, despite a huge delivery last week,  and I have had to place another order. We still have plenty of growbags, vegetable compost, tree and shrub planting compost, ericaceous compost (for acid loving plants) composted bark and manure. New this year is alpine compost – so don’t forget to ask for some when ordering rockery plants from us. We still have some multi-purpose compost left and more is arriving soon. We have sold about 6 months of compost in two weeks!

Vegetable seeds

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

We still have seed potatoes in stock and it’s the prime time for getting them planted out now. Our 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:

We currently have the following ready: (Packs of 6 plants £3.50 per pack – 4 packs for £12)

  • Violas: Yellow Jump Up, Purple Babyface, Pink Halo, and Mixed. Limited numbers now available
  • Pansy: Clear yellow, Deep Orange, True Blue, Pink Shades and Mixed. Plenty of pansies available.

(Packs of 12 plants £3.50 per pack – 4 packs for £12)

  • Lobelia: Upright Blue, Cambridge Blue, White Lady and Rosamund (Pink)
  • Lobelia: Trailing Mixed, Fountain White, Fountain Blue, Sapphire (Lobelia sold in packs of 12, but are the same price, so excellent value for money and you can mix and match lobelia, pansies and violas to get your 4 packs for £12)
  • *NEW THIS WEEK:* *Packs of bedding Geraniums – 4 per plants per pack £3.99 each – 4 packs for £15* Our geraniums are now available in white, red or mixed, and are one of our most popular bedding plant lines.
  • Individual Geranium plants – £2.75 each – 4 for £10*
  • Ivy-leaf geraniums (trailing) suitable for baskets and tubs: Burgundy Bi-colour, Pink, White or Red.
  • Zonal geraniums- These are the ones with lovely variegation on the leaves as well as attractive flowers, and are perfect for containers or as a houseplant. Madame Salleron, Lotusland, Frank Headley or Mrs Pollock
  • Tub and Basket Plants £2.50 each – let us pick out a selection of 6 for £12* Lysimachia aurea Ivy silver or gold; Nepeta variegata Felicia blue; Diascia pink or orange – looking really lovely in flowe;r Helichrysum silver or gold
  • Trixies – 3 in 1 plants suitable for easy planting of hanging baskets and tubs. £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. Don’t forget to protect all your bedding plants from the frost – it’s still chilly out there at nights.

Vegetable Plants

If you fancy having a go at “Grow Your Own”, or are already an experienced 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 £10 for 6. (Give yourself a pat on the back if you spotted my pricing error for tomatoes on the email last week!)
  • Vegetable Packs- these are in packs of 12 and are £3.50 each or 4 for £12. Our selection may include Leek Musselburgh, Onion Ailsa Craig, Onion Bedfordshire Champion, Rocket, Cabbage Durham Early, Cabbage Advantage, Cabbage Ormskirk, Red Cabbage, Brussel Sprouts, Purple Sprouting Broccoli, Pea Sweet Horizon (mange tout), Pea Kelvedon Wonder, Broad Bean, and Sweetcorn. We also have Curled Parsley and Coriander in packs of 6 plants at the same price, and packs of 12 Kelsae Onions at £6 per pack.
  • Other Vegetable Plants –  We also now have ready Pumpkin, Winter Squash, Sweet Pepper, and Chilli Pepper. These are sold as individual plants.

Fruit Plants

We currently have ready:

  • 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

Herbaceous Plants:

These are our own home grown plants and some of the best plants for this week are:

  • Heuchera Marvellous Marble and Coral Forest. Really full pots and highly recommended
  • Nepeta Walkers Low and Six Hills Giant (Catmint)
  • Knautia macedonica Red Knight
  • Geum rivale (in bud), Lady Stratheden and Mrs Bradshaw
  • Hardy Geraniums Johnson’s Blue, Orkney Cherry, Dreamland and Westray
  • Actae Chocoholic – a really magnificent plants with dark foliage and tall spires of white flowers in late summer/autumn. Used to be called Cimicifuga
  • Sanguisorba Tanna
  • Aquilegia William Guiness – black and white, just like a good pint!
  • Potentilla Miss Wilmott and nepalense Ron McBeth
  • Campanula perscifolia White or Blue
  • Polemonium Northern Lights or Lambrook Mauve
  • Circium rivale
  • Astrantia Roma
  • Eryngium Jos Eijking and Blue Lagoon.

Prices range from £6.99 – £8.99 for most herbaceous plants

Penstemons

We are really pleased to offer some of the best hardy penstemon varieties, all as home-grown plants at £8.99 each:

  • Raven (dark purple)
  • Snowstorm (white)
  • Garnet (red)
  • Sour Grapes (pinky blue)
  • Firebird (scarlet)

Roses

Available just now are:

  • 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/orange) Dublin Bay (red)

Shrubs:

Highly recommended this week are:

  • Syringa Palibin – dwarf lilac only growing to about 150cm. £11.99
  • Physocarpus Diablo £9.99 – a really good foliage plant
  • Hebes – Caledonia £10.99, Purple Pixie £10.99 and Nicola’s Blush £8.99
  • Ceanothus – Italian Skies and Concha £11.99
  • 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
  • Also new this week is Phygelius Devil’s Tears – a very under-estimated fuchsia like plant with tubular flower in late summer. £8.99 each

Rockery Plants

We have just had a fresh delivery of these, and the current selection includes masses of aubretia, saxifrage, alpine phlox, violas, sedum, armeria (sea thrift), dwarf aquilegias and more, and there is lots of cheerful flower colour. They are £4.50 each or let us select 3 for £12 for you. These are perfect for small garden spaces, rockeries, alpine troughs and containers and brilliant for instant colour. Don’t forget to ask for alpine compost for planting.

The office is currently unmanned, so please don’t email or Facebook orders. Other correspondence will be picked up at some point, and your messages of support and thanks are much appreciated even if I can’t find the time to respond individually.

Thank you so much for supporting Woodside, and I look forwards to welcoming you back on site as soon as we are able to re-open and operate safely. It’s just not the same here without you!

Keep safe and keep gardening……. Best wishes from Emma, Stephen and Laura