Mid-August Highlights in the Garden Centre

There are still some lovely plants available in the garden centre to give you autumn or all year round interest in the garden. We have also had a new delivery of stoneware, benches and have been on another successful search for vintage garden items. Here are some of the highlights:

Plants of the week:

Japanese Anemones – these lovely late summer flowering perennials are easy to grow and come back year after year

Euphorbias – we have a good choice of these just now, which offer year round foliage interest.

Heucheras and Heucherallas -these are gorgeous evergreen perennials offering excellent value for money with all year round interest, and will grow happily in beds or in pots. We have a good range of foliage colours available.

Hydrangeas – enjoy a lovely display of late summer flowers with our range of Hydrangeas. These plants have gained enormous popularity in recent years, and the much looser blooms of the paniculata types are a far cry away from the formal ball-head flowers we used to see, and much more suited to more cottagey type gardens.

Zero Maintenance Benches

Many of you have been admiring our composite zero-maintenance three seater benches that we had delivered earlier this year. They have sold well, with one going to Ancrum Bowling Club and others finding new homes in situations where maintenance of a traditional timber bench would be difficult. We are now pleased to be stocking the 2-seater version, in the same range of great colours – Green, Blue, New Teak and Stone Grey, and we also have the full range of colours available again in the 3-seater size. 2-seaters are £475.00, and 3 seaters £575.00, and with no sanding, painting or oiling required they really are zero-maintenance.

Stoneware

We’ve also had new deliveries of stoneware from both of our major suppliers. These have been on order since last autumn, so we’ve been waiting quite some time for them! Our new stock includes some designs we’ve not had in before, as well as some popular lines that we’d sold out of, so do come and have a look. Products include a new range of Fairy Doors, Green Man Plaques, Birdbaths, Toadstools and a wide range of statues to suit all sizes of garden and budget. I know it’s a bit early yet for the “C” word, but they really do make lovely Christmas presents!

Vintage Garden Items

My favourite items from last week’s haul are: Vintage Belgian metal rubbish bins, which would make great storage for birdfood or petfood, a really pretty Ransomes lawn mower (pictured and in exceptional condition for it’s age), an unusual brass watering can, an assortment of vintage metal pumps (also on the photo), and my favourite of all – a French snail collecting tin.

We nearly always have a good range of proper stone troughs suitable for rockery and alpine plants, in a range of shapes and sizes. Do come in and have a look at what we have, and remember that we are refreshing the range all the time, as we source more vintage items from sales, fairs and auctions. These are all attracting a great deal of interest, and we are managing to pick up some items for customer requests,  so if you’re looking for something in particular just let us know and we’ll try to source it for you.