A summer of abundant beautiful gardens

You can’t help but love a lush, well growing fern, all that green, feathery shade loving foliage. There are ferns that require drier conditions and those that will tolerate wet to almost in the water wet and those that sit happily between the two. But not all ferns are created green – there is the orange fronds of Dryopteris erythrose and the metallic colours of the Athyriums, to name a few. We have a lovely wee selection of ferns in the shade tunnel in the sales area for sale and the fabulous matteuccia and Dryopteris ‘The King’ in the shade stock beds.

The process of a painting - from the front garden, to a vase to a painting

Out for dinner for youngest Dan's birthday

We have a selection of fruit plants in stock, many grown from our own plants here in the nursery and at home. Many provide other garden interest not just fruit for eating too, so if you have a small garden always choose multi purpose plants to get the most from your small space.

If you are looking for a plant that will give you year round interest then the blueberry is the one for you. Lovely spring foliage, flowers in summer, berries in late summer and glorious autumn colour.

White currant 'White Versaille' for something different

Black Currant 'Ben Hope'

Red currant 'Red Lake' and 'Jonkheer van Tets'

Fig 'Brown Turkey'

Jostaberry

Gojiberry

The past few days of wet and windy weather have been miserable. We measure how wet a day is depending on how many coats we go through. Wednesday was a 3 coat day! Today was wet and very windy.......... summer? So here is a wee photo tour around the nursery taken on more sunny days last week, enjoy.

Of course it doesn't beat an real walk around the nursery and gardens and then buying some of our fabulous plants that you've seen growing in the gardens

Loving this ceramic sheep that I picked up from the new Reuse, Repair & Share Hub at Whitmuir. They've got great stuff, whether you are looking for kitchen goods, furnature, ornaments, toys and so much more. Reducing the amount of stuff that goes to landfill and giving it a second use and new home is so important these days. Love a bit of recycling. David reckons its got maisie ears lol.

The other interesting thing in this photo is the genuine original stacking dolls brought back from Russia and the vase made by the Navajo Nation indians in Monument valley brought back from Arizona as my hand luggage. Two warring nations together on my shelf!

Really happy with this planting combo of my standard Acer ‘Garnet’ in its huge pot under planted with the delightful Sanguisorba ‘Little Angel’.  The colour combination has worked perfectly and underplanting has given me another place to plant another plant lol, small garden? No problem!

This corner in the back garden keeps going, now with the geraniums and Verbascum. The pinks, purples and whites have worked fabulously together. Clematis, roses, Verbascum, Stachys, Verbena, Sambucus to name a few

Goodness what’s that weather been like last week! Everything has been very well watered, but it looks like sun and high temperatures this coming week, so it helps being ahead with watering.  Thank you to all our customers who visited despite the rain and wind.

This last week we had a blitz on weeding the gardens on Thursday when Isabel and Erin were in. Its amazing how quickly those blighters grow, I’m sure they grow over night when we’re not looking. But we got all the gardens tidied in a day which is great as there’s so much to do.

I finished the geraniums and geums at last, we have so many potted up for next year which is great. Isabel is almost finished A’s so we are getting there (B is easy, there is only one!) I’ve been potting up lots of other plants too and Fiona finished potting up all the cuttings ready for potting. The stock beds in the field are filling up with lots of fab plants for next year.

Frustratingly We’ve had to close the scented garden path again to sow more grass seed. I have bought some seed specifically for very wet conditions, which is what we have in that garden. Fingers crossed this works.

The teasels I planted last year in the orchard are flowering, this is exciting and I am hoping they will seed around and establish themselves there.

The gardens are looking fab and we have received so many lovely comments about how good the nursery and gardens look. Thank you, we appreciate all the love and support we get for Quercus, it means a lot x

A fantastic day off in Northumberland visiting Stanton Hall gardens and nursery which has been on my to visit list for a couple of years. A lovely sunny warm day to be out in a part of the country we love. The nursery was lovely and a very similar ethos and business model to us, so great to chat to like minded folk. We follow each other on Instagram and I was recognized straight away lol. A lovely hour or so wandering around and yes I did buy some, ok quite a few plants for the nursery and my own garden. We headed north to Longframlinton for a lovely lunch at the Running fox, accompanied by baby spuggies lol. A walk in the dog park along side colourful allotments before heading to Alnwick and our book heaven Barter Books. Great to go on a longer journey in David’s new to him very comfey car.

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