About Seaside Plants

Myrtus communis - with berries

We are a small family run business set in the South Hams area of South Devon. We have been trading since 1979, supplying trade customers throughout the south west.
In that time we have built up a wide range of different plants, many of which are suited to coastal conditions.
We now feel we would like to offer our knowledge and range of plants to you through this site.

FEBRUARY NEWS FROM THE NURSERY

The garden is again something that is on an upward quickening beat - not slowing down for winter. It is not on a constant upward course, there will be the inevitable 'cold snaps.'

Many of the shrubs that brave this time of year to give us some flower - like Lonicera x purpusii Winter Beauty and Viburnum bodnantense Dawn - can suffer damage to their open flowers, but they have more buds in reserve that continue unscathed.
Sarcococcas are in flower now and the small white flowers are very fragrant - but the frosts do not seem to cause damage to these.
Similarly Clematis cirrhosa balearica and Clematis cirrhosa Wisley Cream do not get damaged.

Other plants looking good at the moment are :
Coronilla valentina glauca, Correas, Iris unguicularis, Vinca difformis, Pulmonaria Blue Ensign, Ribes speciosum, Double Gorse and Leptospermums.

We are busy on the nursery trimming hedges and perimeter trees before the birds start nesting, although with all the mild weather so far they are already looking interested.
See Natrural England - Hedgerow regulations