Sunday 29th April is the first Stoke Hammond Plant Fair. Starting at 12.00 till 4.00 at the Community Centre, Bragenham Side.  There will be a variety of stalls selling plants and crafts.  Refreshments will be available.

Great opportunities to stock up on plants.

Friday 23rd March to Sunday 25th March 2012

Open Friday 9.30am-8pm, Saturday 9am-6pm, Sunday 11am-5pm

The show is full of ideas and on display will be lots of plants,  pots,  garden furniture, ornaments,  paving and patios, driveways, conservatories, water features, bonsai, driveway cleaning, gazebos,  umbrellas, lawn treatments, garden design, garden accessories, ladder systems, lighting – you name it – it’s there.

The Flower Garden

Winter and spring bedding plants need to be dead-headed to encourage a longer flowering period. Cut down faded foliage on herbaceous perennials before new growth starts and take out any weeds before they really take off in spring. Now is the time to divide and replant snowdrops and to plant lilies and lily of the valley crowns, as well as getting in gladioli, dahlias and other autumn flowering bulbs.

Preparation of the ground for spring planting can be carried out whenever the weather permits. Place a protective covering over soil in areas where you are going to plant or sow seeds. This will stop it from getting overly wet and warm the soil so that when you do plant they will get away quicker.

Trees, Shrubs and Roses

There is still time to plant bare root roses, trees and shrubs while they are still dormant. Don’t prune roses just yet as frosts can burn the new growth that will appear. Deadhead and prune grapevines, wisteria, buddleia and summer flowering clematis. Cut all previous seasons shoots back to within 2 or 3 buds of old wood. This hard pruning will encourage the development of strong growth that will bare good size flowers from June onwards. This is also good month for a dressing of bonemeal to shrub borders and beds. It takes a few weeks before it starts to break down in the soil, so it will be a ready source of plant food when the plants need it in a few weeks.

Kitchen Garden

Onion sets and seed potatoes should also be ordered now. Seed potatoes need to be kept in a cool, light environment while they are being “chitted”. If you encourage growth too early, energy will be wasted, and it is at least a month before the earliest potatoes can be put in the ground. Sow vegetable seed under cloches for early crops.

Cut back autumn fruiting raspberries to about 15cm of the ground and trim the tops of canes of summer fruiting raspberries. 

But we are still here and happy to welcome you to the Nursery so give us a call and we will arrange a mutually convenient time for you to come over.

10.30 – 4.30

Come along and enjoy our delicious home-made cakes.

Sunday 28th August

Events start at 2.00pm

To be held at the rear of The Betsey Wynne Pub, Swanbourne