05 Dec

Herbs News Plants

Thyme Foxley

Thyme Foxley.. One of my favourite herbs. It just keeps giving. Lovely colour just as it is, but when it flowers in the summer you get a lovely delicate pinky red flower. Very bee friendly too! These will sit happily outside now until next season and toughen up!

07 Jun

Chilli Peppers Herbs News Plants

30% Reduce Peat

We’re currently trialling 30% reduced peat and working towards further reductions in the times ahead.

With already going peat free with our Wild Flowers, we are hoping each step will help towards the environment.

Here’s to adapting and improving our ways.

14 Jun

News Plants

HTA National Plant Show 18/19 June 2019

We’ll be attending the HTA National Plant Show next week. Come view our plants on stand 57.

To view the floor plan, please click the following link HTA_joint_hall_plan

For more information please visit www.nationalplantshow.co.uk

27 Mar

Herbs New Products Plants

New Pot Range

As you will all know the use of plastics in all areas, commercial horticulture included has fallen under close scrutiny in 2018.  In our sector, supplying the Garden Centre trade, it is pots that are felt to be the priority as these end up being distributed all around the country, to consumers’ homes.  Transport trays end up at Garden Centres from where it is normally possible for them to be palletised and then recycled.

At Country Herbs and Plants we have spent a lot of time this last Autumn and Winter exploring the various options available to us within the market.  We also sent out a questionnaire to you, our customers and most who responded favoured the use of a pot that was both made from recycled waste that was in turn recyclable in kerbside bins.  We are pleased to say that we have found a range of Taupe coloured pots that tick these boxes.  These pots are made by Aeroplas, a UK company, using UK origin post-consumer waste.  These Taupe pots are carbon pigment free which means that it is far easier for them to be recycled again.

We believe that the pots that we have chosen are the best and greenest commercial option available at this time.  We are now potting into the new taupe pots so you will begin to see some coming your way in the forthcoming weeks.  There will be a period of time when we will be out loading orders where some trays are of the old black pots and others are in the new taupe pot.  Unfortunately this is unavoidable and whilst it will look a little untidy the alternative would be to create unnecessary waste plastic which hardly seems appropriate in the circumstances.

We hope that you and your customers will all appreciate the steps that we and other nurseries are taking to address the serious issues surrounding the issue of plastics.

04 Jan

News Plants

Wallflowers

We have a great selection of 1 Litre Wallflowers available now for some early colour.  Please see our current availability list for details of varieties.

To enable promotion of Wallflowers, we have a bespoke complimentary point of sale board available (please ask for details).

17 Aug

Plants Uncategorised

Chilli Pepper Plants

Our Chilli Pepper’s are now fruiting… Yum Yum, not just good looking but tasty too!