Almost the end of our 2025 season already

Posted by on

 WINTER HOURS

Just under two weeks until we close for winter on Sunday 26th October until the beginning of March2026 when we re-open for the 2026 season.
I will be back and forward to the nursery doing all those winter tasks, so if you wish to purchase plants or to ask advice, please email quercusgardenplants@gmail.com
Our AUTUMN SALE continues until the 26th and there are still loads of bargains to be had. We still have bulbs for sale and all our usual plants on our stock list.
Hope to see you before the end of the month.
Photo of Cortaderia selloana 'Pumila' and Miscanthus sinensis 'Kleine Fontäne' looking glorious in the autumn sun.


My Acer ‘Bloodgood’ has outdone its self this year with its autumn colour. Purple through spring and summer, it subtlety starts turning until it is this translucent glorious red. I’ve had it for near 30 years in a pot, so I have kind of made it a large bonsai tree! As long as its well watered and fed its happy as you can see. Its also looks brilliant in its new home here in this little courtyard I created this year between my greenhouse and potting shed.






A sneaky peak of another page in my journal for October, spent part of the afternoon on this leaf from my lovely acer featured in the previous post, definite improvements happening I think.




Autumn highlights in the nursery gardens, the grasses are at their peak and looking fabulous, late flowering olants such as asters, autumn crocus and sedums provide pops of colour. If you need autumn and winter inspiration for your garden, pop in before 26th October for hardy, tough plants grown on site here in the nursery.






This will be the last looking good in the garden for 2025 featuring New England Asters. Aster are such great plants for autumn interest. some can flower right through November too depending on the weather. If you want to know more about Asters, follow the link below for my blog post all about these fabulous flowers ❤


The huge nasturtium that took over the greenhouse courtyard refuses to die! Despite being removed from the garden and put on the compost heap 3 weeks ago, its still going!!!


My fish bone cactus flowers have begun to open, there were over 30 flowers in the end!!! Last year there was 6. Awaiting the incredible scent from them and they only last 24 hours or so, got to make the most of them ❤️



Celebrating all those flowers my fishbone cactus produced this year by capturing one in watercolour in my journal ❤


Our penultimate week and what a busy week, no slacking just because we finish up in two weeks time, oh no this is when we catch up on all the jobs we haven’t got done already, or as many as we can.

Isabel got the stock take finished which is great, all the future plant stock planning develops from this vital record and Fiona did some last minute potting, a few plants that we are now short of thank you for buying them and keeping us busy propagating. She also divided (with saw) the bamboo I lifted earlier in the week (more on that later).

I moved all the pots up from the middle terrace to the tunnels for winter protection, gathered up all the benches and antique barrows from the gardens to go undercover, this prolongs their life for a few more years. I had decided the bamboo I had planted five years ago in the railway garden was going to get to big ultimately so I decided I would dig it out…..by myself……I of course won……eventually, just don’t tell David I used one of his saws out his work shop! I managed to chop it into bits and lift it out, half has been planted in the woodland garden where it looks like its always been there and the other half as I mentioned, Fiona divided up further and potted up for sale.

I wrote up a garden consultation and wrote and sent off the last installment of my gorgeous in the garden feature for Scotland Grows magazine. When David was in the nursery on Thursday we knocked in more posts to extend the dead hedge which I then filled with the pile of branches we’ve saved up and we strimmed and raked the herb garden bank now all the seeds have dropped.

On Saturday we held our last workshop of the year, the propagation workshop that was rescheduled due to the storm at the beginning of the month AND we covered the last two tunnels. This was a fantastic day of hard work from the Quercus team and family and the weather was perfectly still and dry, exactly what we needed. It is amazing to end the season with all the tunnels finished and all our young plants undercover for winter. I am so happy to get to this point in the nursery’s development and with all the hard work everyone has put in.



Photos from our walk at Gameshope yesterday, with views of Talla from the Megget road, one of my favouriote local walks up to the bothy at Gameshope and then great reflections on Tall resevoir.









#rural #countrylife #countryliving #cottagelife #antiquecottagescenes #interiors #scottishborders #independantretailer #smallbusiness #localbusiness #independantplantnursery #uniqueplantnursery #hardyscottishplants #scottishgarden #gardeningontheedge #scottishborders #lifestyleblog #gardenblog



 If you to see what's new and looking good at the nursery like our Facebook



Find out more about the nursery here - our web site: www.quercusgardenplants.co.uk

Follow us on Instagram @quirkybirdgardener and Quercus Garden Plants

Comments

Post a Comment