About Seaside Plants

Dartington Hall - Devon

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.

MARCH 2010 NEWS FROM THE NURSERY

Things are beginning to improve for growing - which is what we like to do best. It is all very well tidying up the nursery and pondering where to put cables in the office, but it doesn't feel like a proper days work!
We are braving the coldness of the potting compost and potting things on or splitting things up - it's great .
The birds are moving on from the cold winter as well. We have a song thrush which sings nearly all day and the long tailed tits are back building in the same shrub in the garden as last year.
This is the time to hard prune the late flowering Clematis, before they put on too much growth. Cut them back to about 30cm to nice fat buds and tie into a support. I noticed today that the spring flowering C. macropetala are already in bud.
Other Clematis in bud are x cartmanii Joe and Early Sensation both evergreen varieties.

Now is also a good time to buy herbaceous clematis which are shooting strongly from the base. they are easier to dispatch in this state and we have several varieties available. The integrifolias in white pink and blue and also eriostemon Hendersonii with its lovely dark blue flowers.

Perhaps these Clematis might make a suitable gift for Mother's Day - March 14 -. We also have greetings cards in which we can put your message.





GIFT TOKENS - We are now offering Gift Tokens - nice to have something to plan for the season ahead at this time of year.


NURSERY VISITS

As we are also a wholesale Nursery supplying our local West Country Garden Centres we therefore have deadlines to meet preparing and delivering orders. So although it is nice to meet our web customers we can not spare the the time selling retail at the nursery especially at this busy time of the year. We have prepared web orders for collection on request and perhaps in the Winter months we will be able to see visitors by appointment.

We have added a new category 'Cards for Special Occasions'
These cards many by local artists, are for you to choose from to include with plants being sent as a gift with your message included for birthdays and other anniversaries.