For those who listen to Radio Cambridgeshire you can listen again to Angela talking with Christopher South on Gardener’s Questiontime on Sunday lunchtime 12 till 1pm on 2nd December.

Radio Cambridgeshire are also  following our progress from now until Chelsea on the building of our display and what has to be done to get ready for a big show like Chelsea.

Luke is interviewed by Vanessa Mann from Radio Cambridgeshire, discussing the progress of our Chelsea stand.

Gardener’s question time Radio Cambridgeshire

Winter is definetly on its way and the pots of plants are frozen, making it impossible to do much now as we grow our plants naturally and so they have to take whatever the weather throws at them.

So now it is time for a tidy up and some maintenance work.  This has involved so far in having a JCB in and removing one of the banks outside the nursery gateway to make it easieer for customers to find us. But oh what a lot of soil! We waste nothing on the nursery so this in turn is being shaped into a rockery with a wall shaped into one part of it. Although the soil is clay (makes you several inches taller in seconds) the roots of the trees and bushes on the bank have broken the soil down nicely which will be excellent for when we come to plant up next Spring.

There will be plenty to see when you visit the nursery next year when we open again in March.

Well that’s one job finished!

Remember we are open now….. but by appointment only

Winter jobs

Finally the nursery is covered in butterflies again. We have had plenty of bees but the butterflies have been missing for a long time. But now they have returned in abundance. We have seen so far plenty of Peacock butterflies and now the odd Painted Lady which we have not seen for at least 2 years and a few Tortoiseshells as well.

We have planted on the nursery lots of butterfly plants including Echinops and Buddleja and now we are being rewarded.

Also plenty of bees. Wow!

The butterflies have returned