cordwood nursery

Over the coming years we have an acre of gardens close to the house, an acre and a half of meadow, orchard, vegetable garden and so much more to fill with enticing plants ... and without a budget!
So, I am looking to friends and family to help with cuttings, seeds, seedlings, divisions - you name it, we'll have it!!!
I cheekily invited myself around to my clever cousin Sue’s garden suggesting I take ‘a few’ cuttings for our ‘new garden to be’. Sue is an amazing gardener and designer and Jill describes her garden as ‘magical’. She combines plants superbly and has a plants woman's eye for extra special plants.

By the time we’d arrived Sue had already been busy potting up and bagging big roots for us to take away and then she set about plants like a fevered locust with secateurs.

The conclusion of this frenzied morning is the following carried home in our car:

Clematis tangutica

Geranium Bill Wallis

Leycesteria Formosa (Pheasant berry)

Kalamaris Incise Charlotte

Geranium Psilostemon

Papaver rupifragum Orange Feathers

Geranium Johnson’s Blue

Cyclamen

Harts Tongue Fern

White Dicentra

Leucanthemum X superbum (Shasta Daisy)

Aconitum Sparks (Monkshood)

Heuchera Greenfinch

Allium hollandicum Purple sensation

Fuschia Pink

Fuschia variegated

Lonicera evergreen

Hydrangea serrata Miranda (Lacecap hydrangea)

Garyya Elliptica (Silk-tassel bush)

Dianthus French pink

Witch Hazel

Cotinus coggygria (Purple smoke bush)

Hydrangea blue

Rosa Isphahan Large pink

Rosa x odorata ‘Mutabilis’

Rosa banksiae ‘Lutea’

Rosa Frances E Leicester

Rosa Seagull/Wedding Day

Campanula blue

Back over to Roger's greenhouse where we potted up hardwood cuttings and then over to the rainy allotment where we planted out plants that were bagged or potted.

Not only was this a superb source of free plants, importantly these plants will always have the emotional tag of being from my lovely cousin and her lucky husband and chief gardening assistant Mal.