Beautiful spring, a busy nursery and a walk along the River Tweed

Spring is such a wonderful season as all the plants come back to life after winter. The colours are intense with bright yellows, deep pinks, pure whites and clear forget me not blue. Here are just some of the highlights in our nursery gardens, why not come and enjoy them yourself. Get a take away coffee from the cafe and take a walk through the gardens, enjoy a seat in the sun on one of the many benches we have dotted around, listen to the nesting birds and then browse the stock beds, sales area and wee shop, a perfect hour or two re-connecting with nature and escaping the crazy world out there.  

I love a colour co-ordinated shelf in our wee shop

It was great to see some blue sky and sun, just need that easterly wind to ease off. Its to be quite cold at night so we've fleeced a few things including the annual seedlings in the tunnel. Its not to late to nip out and chuck fleece, bubble wrap a blanket or even a jacket over anything you think might get nipped with the cold.

Thursday is sales area tidying and refilling day, you do keep us busy Lots more spring flowering plants coming out and hopefully strawberries on the fruit table - Cambridge Scarlet - the best variety and we've still got plenty water plants and some lovely flowering cherries coming into flower

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The sales area is topped up with our fabulous plants, including many spring interest plants, herbs, water plants too and just out Strawberry Cambridge Favourite, the best variety in my opinion and all our old favs and new plants coming out to the stockbeds every day.

But enough from me, here at Quercus we let the plants do the talking both in the nursery gardens and in the sales area and stock beds

Open Wednesday to Sunday 10am to 5pm

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Tulipa Aveyron

In the front garden at home this week, it feels like spring has sprung overnight but very happy to see some sun, blue sky and warmth.

Rhododendron 'Little Ben'

Anemone nemorosa 'Allenii'

This week we are showcasing some of my wonderful Epimedium collection in the test tubes and you can see them growing in the woodland garden. I love them and now have over 20 varieties and we are working on propagating and making them available to our customers

Thank you to everyone who visited over the week and this weekend, enjoying the warmth and sunshine, having a chat with us and buying plants, pots, compost and bits n pieces from the we shop. It was lovely to welcome everyone to enjoy the Quercus experience, enjoy a moment to sit on one of our benches in the sun and appreciate all that we do and have created here. Your feed back and lovely comments are very much appreciated by the Quercus team

I am having a lie down with some wine, a catch up in my own garden and then we are back on Wednesday ready to do it all again

As my much loved and much missed Dad would say, I’m at the coo’s tail again this week. In other words behind again and slow enough to be at the back. Last week we had some lovely spring weather, the sunshine, blue sky and warmth has encouraged customers to visit and makes it much more pleasant for the Quercus team working. Its been lovely to chat to our regulars, new customers and customers visiting for the first time this year, its great that you want to keep coming back and many new folks are finding us

So what have the team been up to this week? Isabel has been working through the shade stock beds, potting, tidying, feeding and top dressing the plants, getting labels in place and making sure we have all our shade plants out for sale from the tunnels and reserve stock beds. She also got the sales area topped up and tidied on Thursday and helping customers with their queries and finding plants for them

Fiona was in on Saturday and manned the shop and helped customers while I did a quick hoe and weed of the gardens while it was warm and dry, so the wee blighters would shrivel in the heat. She’s working through last years cuttings, getting them all potted up and back into the tunnels. She also got some seeds sown, these will be stock for next year, mostly herbs to fill some gaps in the stock list. She also got all our annual seedlings out the tunnel as they are getting huge, so they need to be slowed down a bit until its time to plant them

I’m still working through the bulbs and summer plants in tunnel one and a lot of them are coming out into sales as I go through them likewise with the stock beds, I’m in P’s of which like S’s there are A LOT and it takes forever, but the stock beds are getting there and looking good and there will soon be even more plants out for sale. We’ve been putting aside orders for customers and now that its dry keeping the watering going. Summer must be on the way as I got all the exotic plants out of tunnel 4, tidied and fed and put out for display. The last of the herb pots are also out in the herb garden

In the gardens the spring colours continue to brighten the place and there are so many plants now doing their thing. Every day another plant comes into flower and more emerge from their winter sleep. The Woodland garden is always my favourite as I love woodland and shade plants and its looking particularly fine at the moment. I am especially pleased to see Paris quadrifolia Cally Form spreading and in flower at the moment, and so many other interesting and unusual plants, especially my Epimediums

We had the first railway running afternoon of 2026 and David and Dan got to run the new railway stock they bought at the exhibition they were at on Saturday. They’ve got plans for some modifications to the lay out and keep mumbling about extensions through the rest of the nursery gardens

I ordered more pond plants, including a bigger selection of water lilies and marginals, so there will be plenty of choice later in the week after I’ve unpacked them on Wednesday. We will also have more terracotta pots arriving soon as the sets we got in at the beginning of the season have almost gone already! Lastly more trees, shrubs and climbers will be arriving in the next week or two, including hopefully a small range of shrub roses and more apple trees

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Erythronium 'White Beauty'

Maisie "helping" in the tunnels

Weeding the gardens

Trillium sessile

Paris quadrifolia Cally Form

Annuals have moved out to harden off

Time to get the exotics out the tunnel for summer

Tuesday turned into a lovely day after a cold cloudy start. A walk up to the high street to do some errands and check every clothes shop for a dress then a much needed walk along the river with Maisie. Haven't done this walk in ages and it was lovely to see all the blossom on the trees and wild flowers out in the woods. Home for an afternoon cutting grass, weeding and house cleaning before glider man came home. Nice to have a sunny day at home.

This week in the back garden. I love my wee garden at home, its my escape, even when I’ve been gardening all day at work. Its really coming together as we approach owning this house for four years and has looked fab over the past week whe.n the sun finally put in an appearance and spring felt like it had arrived

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