Hello,
Welcome to the Crown Nursery blog - a down to earth and humorous look at life at this busy Suffolk Nursery.
The big thing that seems to be dominating life here at the moment is the weather! Parts of the nursery seem to resemble something in between Noah's Ark and the Battle of the Somme!
Despite being on a very light soil - almost pure sand - water stands in every low spot. The hedging bay is mud city - but the girls are still doing stirling work out there - although I think Miss Potter may well soon be able to leave her waterproof trousers standing up on their own with the amount of mud caked onto them!
Customers always say how nice it must be to work in your nursery - yes that's during the summer - come and see it now!!
Who is Miss Potter? - One of the brilliant duo who do the hedging orders and shrub sales areas.
We will meet all the members of the team here at Crown Nursery as the weeks progress.
Despite the grim weather - there are some plants that are looking good at the moment. The Christmas Box - Sarcococca - is flowering a little later than normal - but visitors to the shrub sales area can smell our stock plant before they see it. The Winter-flowering Honeysuckle - Lonicera x purpusii is also a little late - but delightfully scented delicate flowers are on the plant now.
Our all time favourite though for winter scent has got to be the Winter Sweet - Chimonanthus praecox - we are lucky enough to have a mature plant for sale in a pot - and it has a scent to die for - though it would surely fail to win any prizes for aesthetic value!
It is one of the beauties of our world that despite the dreadful weather and the economic gloom - nature still has some little goodies to lift our spirits!!
Until next time
Richard
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