The to do list always seems to grow and not diminish! As I tick a task off the top, I'm adding six more on at the end! The weather isn't helping again and there's so much "stuff" going on behind the scenes, I'm quite exhausted. Still two months to go before we close and a lot to get done, including a lot of propagation, at least one if not two tunnels to build and so much else. The gardens continue to look great with lots of colour and interest to cheer us up.
From the long stock bed border
As part of our stock list re-organisation, last week I sorted out all our auricula primulas and they are now ready to sell. Some varieties are very limited in quantity and they need specific conditions (see below). They are £4.00 each in 9cm pots. Collection from the nursery only. Varieties available:
Primula ‘Joy’
Primula ‘Helen Ruane'
Primula ‘Linda Pope’
Primula ‘Mojave'
Primula ‘Gizabroon’
Primula ‘Trouble’
Primula ‘Calander park’
Primula 'Kusum Krishna'
Primula ‘Lemon Sorbet’
Primula ‘Lemon drop’
Primula ‘Osborne Green’
Primula auricula 'Chaffinch'
Primula ‘Star Wars’
Primula ‘Teem’
Primula 'Black Jack'
Auriculas are spring flowering, originating from the Alps. To get the best results grow them in pots under cover. The ideal place to grow these auriculas is in an unheated greenhouse with good ventilation but mini greenhouses and cold frames work too.
Ensure that overhead protection is provided to shelter from heavy rain, especially in winter. Direct summer sun should be avoided. The best aspect to place your chosen growing areas are west or east facing. North facing provides too little light, and south facing results in too much light and heat in summer. Year round ventilation is essential to protect from disease and rot.
One of the most common group of plants we get asked for are plants for shade. This can often be a difficult garden condition for customers to deal with. Shade can be cause by trees, walls, fences or house walls, sheds or garages. Shade can be dry or damp depending on soil conditions or what is causing the shade in the first place. The bottom of stone or brick walls can often be damp or under trees can be very dry. Then of course there are courtyard or basement gardens where there is no soil at all to plant into. But this shouldn't be a deterrent to having a great shade garden. As long as they are kept sufficiently watered shade plants do well in large enough pots and can make a very lush and jungle looking garden in a corner or basement.
This week I've been adding to our collection of pots for shade in the sales area to give our customers an idea of what they can plant. A walk around our woodland garden also gives a great sense of what else can be planted in shade, especially dry shade under trees.
You can also read our website pages about shade, see the links below. We have a large selection of plants for shade in our stock beds and in the shade tunnel in the sales area.
Shade plants for sale
Plants for dry shade
Plants for damp shade
This week I've been adding to our collection of pots for shade in the sales area to give our customers an idea of what they can plant. A walk around our woodland garden also gives a great sense of what else can be planted in shade, especially dry shade under trees.
You can also read our website pages about shade, see the links below. We have a large selection of plants for shade in our stock beds and in the shade tunnel in the sales area.
Shade plants for sale
Plants for dry shade
Plants for damp shade
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Have you picked up our Gardeners Notes leaflet when you visit the nursery? There's one for each month that we are open.
We are really pleased that they are proving so popular 
once you've finished with it why not pass onto a friend (great recycling, keeping the cycle going as they are printed on recycled paper) and recommend us if you've enjoyed your visit to Quercus. All our details are on our website which you can access through the QR code on the leadflet.
once you've finished with it why not pass onto a friend (great recycling, keeping the cycle going as they are printed on recycled paper) and recommend us if you've enjoyed your visit to Quercus. All our details are on our website which you can access through the QR code on the leadflet.
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Even tho I've been doing this job for nearly 40 years 😳 I still love propagation. That ability to take seeds, bits of plants be it stems, roots, leaves and turn them into new plants, its magic <3
This time of year sees us doing exactly that and filling the polytunnel up with pots of rooted pieces, seedlings, seed and cuttings which will grow on and produce plants for the following year and beyond. Here is a tiny part of this week's propagation.....
Gathering seed pods from Sinopodophyllum hexandrum
Bonus Plantago major 'Purple Perversion' seedlings that had seeded into another pot
Carex flagellifera seedlings gathered from the garden
Primula vialii lifted from the garden
This time of year sees us doing exactly that and filling the polytunnel up with pots of rooted pieces, seedlings, seed and cuttings which will grow on and produce plants for the following year and beyond. Here is a tiny part of this week's propagation.....
Gathering seed pods from Sinopodophyllum hexandrum
Bonus Plantago major 'Purple Perversion' seedlings that had seeded into another pot
Carex flagellifera seedlings gathered from the garden
Primula vialii lifted from the garden
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| seed pods from Sinopodophyllum hexandrum |
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| Plantago major 'Purple Perversion' seedlings |
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| Carex flagellifera seedlings gathered from the garden |
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| Actaea rubra berries |
Primula viallii seedlings from the garden
We had Dan staying with us all weekend which was lovely, he and David have done a lot more work to the garden railway in the nursery, take aways for tea and trying to get a photo together in the peeing rain today with a gremlin of some sort in the shed behind us!
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From pretty in pink to vibrant oranges and reds, relaxing whites to zingy yellows, the gardens are full of colour, but there is a definite hint of autumn. i'm ok with that, autumn is my favourite season and after the awful spring and summer we've had I am embracing autumn with open arms, cosy jumpers, hot chocolate with ALL the toppings, warming fires and time to relax, just a wee bit
The end of another month is on the horizon and the
realisation summer is going but it never actually arrived either! This week was
spent tidying the gardens in preparation for our last charity day of the year
on Sunday. We are grateful to everyone who cam out in the awful weather to
visit.
Propagation continues and we are gathering seeds, potting up
seedlings form the garden and doing cuttings to fill up the tunnel for next
year’s stock.
I’ve added more pots to the shady pot area where customers
can get ideas for planting up pots in shady gardens.
David and Dan have done lots of work on the garden railway
to improve it, sadly they were unable to run trains on Sunday dues to the awful
weather.
The nursery gardens are still full of colour with a definite
move towards autumnal hues.
Popped up to return Dan's stuff he left over the weekend and had a spin on the train. We all had a turn driving. Great fun and good to see all the new work been done. Dan does a lot of work here, engineering and is vice chairman. Its well worth a visit on the their public running days whech you can find out about on their website and social media - Well worth a visit to ESME at Almondell.
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