As we enter the last week of March, not sure how that happened, I am working through the never ending nursery work. Its a busy time as we sort through the stock beds, pot new plants, labelling and keeping the propagation of new stock going. Its lovely to see all our regular customers returning and new customers finding us too and loving what we are doing here at Quercus. It always makes all the hard work worth it. Its not hard to ignore the weather isn't being very spring like, a brief moment of warmth and sunshine last week has gone and the low temperatures and rain is back.
We have lots of fabulous shrubs in the sales area at the moment. From short growing shrubs to tall ones, evergreens and deciduous, flowering or for fabulous stem colour, spring flowering, summer flowering and autumn foliage colour, there is sure to be a shrub to fit your garden. You can find them all listed on our tree and shrub page on our website.
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Come in and grab a wee bargain, a gift for you or someone who might love one of these.
and we can raise some money for charity. We collect for Breast cancer care in memory of my sister who died 9 years ago 
Last week it felt like winter had come back to stay, it was
back to all the layers and chucking a fleece over the annual seedlings at
night. Regardless our hardy customers have made the effort to visit which is
much appreciated and the work continues with lots of potting and stock bed
tidying. In between all that I’m doing some catch up propagation that we didn’t
get done in autumn or has failed over winter and sorting through the herbs
splitting, tidying and getting them ready to come into the sales area once the
weather warms up, It’s a great job for the first hour and a half keeping warm
in the tunnel. Some of the perennial seeds Fiona sowed a couple of weeks ago
are germinating already, there’s going to be a lot of potting to do. I also
sowed more perennial seeds this weekend directly into 9cm pots. This reduces
the amount of work we have to do and the plants will be for sale much quicker.
Its something we experimented with last year with specific varieties of plants
and it worked really well. As quick as we are emptying tunnel 3, we are filling
it back up again!
The sales area is full of fabulous plants, you may have seen
my post about all the great shrubs we have in stock, earlier in the week. We
have a few wee shop items reduced to half price to clear room for lovely new
items in the wee shop. You can find them in the covered area. Our wee free
garden book library is now open again for 2026 with lots of new to us second
hand garden books to borrow, make a donation for or swap for one of your own.
I’m working through S’s now in the stock beds, there’s lots
of potting this year as we were so busy last year, the beds are quite empty but
good that we have all our propagated plants redy to come out to the stock beds.
This year I’m also working on filling on the gaps of the information cards we
have out in the stock beds, so you have all the information at hand to help
make choices about which plants to buy.
I’ve also emptied and cleaned out the water plant sales area
as the first lot of water plants arrive, yay. This will be a
selection of marginals, oxygenators, pots, and compost.
Fiona spent Saturday filling up our garden book wee library,
so its now open for the season. She also got all the cuttings sorted out ready
for potting and some more seedlings potted, its all go.
Our days off this week were spent in beautiful Northumberland, one of our favourite places. This was David's Christmas present, a couple of days away here including a tour to see the Chillingham Wild cattle, which he's wanted to see for ages. You can read all about these great places in another blog all about them when I have time to write it.
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| Chillingham Church yard |
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| Inside Chillingham Church |
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| Visiting the Chillingham Cattle |
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| On Bamburgh Beach |
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| Craster |
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| Rona and Maisie, Dunstanburgh Castle |
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