Hello - finally - at long last - it's all here!!! After a herculean effort - we have got everything heeled into our hedging bays. Despite snow,frost and just about everything else - in the last two days - over 16,000 hedging plants have been processed!!
Heeling-in during a blizzard yesterday was one of the highlights for me - that lovely feel as the snow starts to get in the back of your neck is just bliss!! Couple that with the plants getting heavier - the spade getting slippery - the soil getting wetter - and you have a nightmare scenario!! But we persevered and it is now all done - and in neat rows - ready for the bare-root hedging season.
We are working through the backlog of orders as fast as we can - so we will be in touch soon if you have pre-ordered your hedging. If you are just coming to visit the nursery - then we do have a hedging section near the fruit sales area - that has a good selection of most of the main hedging plants we offer - in convenient packs of 12 - plus also most of our popular hedging packs mix (50 plants in a pack) - including the new thorn-free and painters pallette mixtures.
However - if you are looking for several hundred plants - or a lot of packs - then it is best to pre-order - since we can only lift so much in one day - and we like to keep our plants as nursery-fresh as we can.
Our full hedging catalogue can be downloaded via the website - we are here to help as much as we can - we can advise you on the selections that may be best for your soil types.
Now that the darker evenings are here - please remember that the nursery opening hours have changed - due to safety reasons - we are now open Monday-Saturday 9am - 4pm only.
Now that the main planting season is in full swing - we are also delighted to announce that we are now stockists for the ROOT-GRO MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI. Much has been said about this product in the last few years - the RHS - ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY now fully endorse it.
It is particularly useful for use with bare-root plants since it helps the plant to re-develop an active root system. Almost every gardening programme seems to be in favour - so we are very pleased to offer it here at Crown Nursery - since it sits very well with the plant range we grow.
It is available in ready-to-use handy sachets - just right for sprinkling around the base of the trench when you plant your hedging!!
After a long and cold week of digging thousands of plants into the ground - I am off for a nice long soak in a hot bath - and perhaps even a glass of something stronger!!
SO UNTIL NEXT TIME,
RICHARD
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