Spring flowers and sunshine brightening up our days

Well the weather might have left a lot to be desired some days, rain, sleet, hail and the odd brief glimpse of blue sky but the early spring flowers and doing their thing regardless and then other days are warm and sunny, definitely spring in Scotland. A big thank you to the intrepid customers who came up the hill in the above weather, its always lovely to catch up after our winter break.

At last I can reveal our new pots for 2025. I can’t decide whether I love the deep teal and brown or the pale white and aqua more. What do you think? The bronze will make a great back drop to many colours, especially deep green evergreens or perhaps some orange? These pots come in three sizes and aren’t too big or heavy for moving around.

Next we have these fabulously bright plastic pots, plastic is not a thing you often see in Quercus, but these are recycled from ocean waste, helping clear up our seas and recycling into decorative useful pots for the garden. Not only that, even when filled with plants and compost they are lighter to move around, ideal for those of us who’s backs aren’t up to the heavy lifting.

We also have a range of standard terracotta pots and half pots, bowls and saucers, glazed conservatory pots in 4 sizes and 3 colours and the gorgeous glazed round pots we had last year.

To finish off we again have peat free Melcourt compost in stock, so you can buy your pots, plants and compost together and we will help down to the car with them all too.

See you soon 😊

Looking good in the garden this week, enhanced by that fabulous blue sky

It's a beautiful day

The week in the nursery - has flown by now we are open again and I realised tonight I have taken very few photos this week, which is not like me! It has been lovely to welcome everyone back to Quercus and catch up with our lovely customers after our winter break.

There’s lots to do as I’ve started tidying the stock beds and potting plants to go in them, V's and T's done, now in S and there are a lot of S's.

I’ve also been sorting through the herbs as they come over from the old tunnel to the new one, getting repotted, tidied and fed as they go. Another couple of weeks and hopefully it will be warm enough to start filling the herb table.

There is frog spawn in the wild life pond and we though we had lost all three fish over winter in the fish pond but one has survived! We will need to get it some friends once the weather gets warmer

Our garden leaflets are out, please pick one up if you want, they are full of seasonal advice for that month and what to look out for as you walk round the nursery and gardens.

Our new pots for this year are out in the sales area now, along with compost and plants you can get everything together, local grown plants, pots made from plastic from the sea and peat free compost, doing our small bit for the environment and our planet.

There are lots of pops of spring colour everywhere in the garden now, its such an exciting time of year as everything emerges from its winter sleep.

Frog spawn in the wildlife pond

Out leaflets for March

I've been collecting Pelham puppets for years, it all started when I got one for christmas over a period of 4 or 5 years as a child. We would choose them in the toy department of Jenners in Princes Street, now there's a memory of something that no longer exists!

As an adult visiting antique shops I find them sometimes in their original boxes, often not and started buying the ones I didn't have. I now have 28 and bought another 3 when we were away in February down near Settle. Two of them are a much smaller simpler size which I only have one of up to now and never see usually. Needless to say I had to buy them.

P.s David hates them

Hairdresser in the morning then a lovely sunny walk along

the river this afternoon in the beautiful sunshine

The Dookits

Neidpath Castle

View fromt he viaduct

Early Cherry blossom

Chionodoxa in the woods

A scene from our walk along the Tweed today, Maisie paddling at the Dookits

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