The Ashridge Nurseries Blog
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Is this the best time of the year for your garden?
My garden’s looking wonderful at the moment, even though its on a hilltop - and therefore slightly windswept - location means our plants seem to be a little later than elsewhere in the southwest of England. I recently went to the Isle of Mull for a week with some friends... -
Happy accidents – the joy of self-seeders
There’s something magical about plants that seed themselves. I sowed a pack of annual love-in-a-mist about seven years ago, scattering seeds randomly in a sunny border at the back of the garden. I may have raked over the soil and possibly even given the area a quick water. But then... -
Gardeners' Question Time
The big day finally arrived and we opened our leafy urban garden to local visitors. It had been a while in the pondering and planning, but committing to opening up to raise money for local street trees turned out to be just the encouragement we needed to fix fence panels... -
Perfect plants for pollinators
There’s nothing quite like the lazy thrum of bees on a sunny day. Dipping in and out of the tubular echo chambers of a foxglove flower, settling on fragrant spikes of lavender or buzzing heavily skywards, pollen sacs laden with golden dust. Bee on Hidcote lavender But bees and other... -
Hadspen House Gardens - now the Newt in Somerset
The Ashridge Nurseries team was honoured to be invited to the pre-launch opening of The Newt in Somerset last Thursday. Now, you may well ask, what on earth might that be all about? In short The Newt is a stunning recreation of Hadspen House gardens and estate. The family seat... -
Long Longleat Walk
It may not appeal to everyone, but a 5 mile walk around parts of the Longleat estate is my idea of heaven. To see the trees in a wonderful setting, the bluebells in the woods and having a pub at about halfway makes for a perfect walk. This means that... -
Sharing is caring
We used to have a huge sycamore at the bottom of our garden. It shaded the sunniest part of our long, narrow plot and throughout the year it covered the patio first in honeydew, then resulted in a spectacular carpeting of bird poo and finally a thick mulch of fallen... -
Over the garden gate
Every May some of my neighbours open their gardens for local charities. It’s not National Garden Scheme or anything grand, just a friendly initiative to garner a few quid to buy street trees or plant up a roundabout abandoned by the local council. It’s a pound to get in and... -
Easter
Easter seems to be more and more about chocolate now, but given my surname (Cadbury) that’s probably inevitable in my case! Alongside the chocolate fest, for we happy band of gardeners it’s all about getting out into the garden, sharpening the secateurs and planning ahead. My wife and I have... -
Hurray for herbs...
I love the geometry and neatness of Elizabethan knot gardens, the manicured symmetry of low box hedging filled with a tangle of flowers and greenery. The best, I think, are those planted with fragrant herbs such as rosemary, cotton lavender, marjoram, thyme, lemon balm and chamomile. On a hot day...
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