The catalogue is now available to download and contains a listing of all the plants which we are proposing to offer for sale over the coming year. This is where you will find our new plants listed long before the plant list goes to print and consequently posted to those on our mailing list.
New 2010 Introductions
Click here for the details of our new introductions.
It is the time of autumn gales again as I write the epilogue to 2009, a brilliant year for the nursery I must confess, especially as you our customers are learning that it is far better to plant in the autumn. As it was last year our extending into offering bare-rooted field grown plants has widened our scope. This combined with customers arranging appointments during the summer to tag plants for lifting in the dormant months has given new impetus to our trade. Undeniably the quality mailorder service we are providing is also paying off, the compliments have been pouring in. Therefore Sue and I would like to take the opportunity to thank and congratulate our staff for their achievements in 2009. Oh yes, our customers as well, must not forget a special thank you for supporting us throughout the 2009 season.
The year started on a high note with our first RHS show at Vincent Square, where we were awarded a silver guilt medal for our display. Soon followed by an exceptionally good spring, which boosted the many events we staged, Dan’s Day was exceptional yet again, that man certainly is a gifted speaker. By mid summer the heat was blistering followed far too soon by record high winds and dull skies. Sue managed to escape for a while as she had been invited to show in Italy where she swept the board (see News page). We were favoured by a short Indian summer which regained our spirits in time for the visit by the big guns of The RHS Woody Committee in early October.
Alas still no collecting this season, bar a few on our visit to the Azores. At least it is forcing us to concentrate our efforts on the collections that we still have undeveloped, that will take several more years along with some skilful propagation. But we are hopeful in getting back ‘into the field’ for next year.
For details of some of our new introductions for this year please look at the News page of this site, where we hope to tempt you with our efforts. Mail order may have finally arrived but we do still welcome visitors to the nursery. We still prefer to meet our customers in person and feel more than justified in claiming that a visit to our nursery and display gardens repays the effort of travelling to our beautiful North Wales site.
For those of our customers who are unable to visit the nursery we offer an online shopping experience on our mailorder website, where you can search by many criteria as well as by name (i.e. colour), the website also indicates pot sizes and prices with deliveries throughout the UK and Europe. Our carrier, City Link offer an overnight fragile service, which should have your plants delivered in fresh condition before 5.30pm the following day to dispatch (UK). We have specially designed packaging boxes in 3 sizes giving us the option of dispatching plants from 30cm (1ft) to 249cm (8ft) tall. Our carriage charges are by the box, (volume not weight) hence please consider ordering enough plants to fill a box, rather than one plant as the carriage charge would be the same. There is no minimum charge for the plants purchased. However we feel that we should forewarn our customers that as the season progresses many of our lines will be out of stock. Conversely new lines will only be offered/available after we re-open our on-site sales in the spring. For enquiries on plant availability etc please contact Sue.
Bleddyn