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Nursery News - June 2010

Wow - what a busy start to the year! With heavy snow and freezing temperatures in January and February, we had to replace over 200 panes of glass and no sooner were the repairs complete then the growing season began in earnest.

4ft of snow caused a lot of glass damage this winter; patio veg plants growing on in the nursery

Following on from a successful year last year, March 2010 was our busiest month ever with over 2,000 plants despatched for Mother's day. A nice steady stream of orders since then has allowed us to introduce some more help on the customer support side with our newest staff member Debbie joining the team in April.

May, with it's warmer weather and longer days is the month when the plants really get going and the grapevines, kiwis and courgette plants in particular appeared to be growing on by the hour! This meant all handson deck in May to repot the much larger range of plants we are growing in house this year.

Dormant grapevines in February; 3 months later these hardy grapevines are already 3ft tall

Now at long last we are through the sowing and potting rush and it's time to look again at the website and plans for the future. We hope those of you who received the new catalogue found it useful and we will be doing another mini brochure for christmas if you or anyone you know would like one then please email us here.

As part of the ongoing aim to always provide the most accurate pictures of our plants, we have just invested in a flash new camera for close up shots... check out the bees enjoying our lavender this week!

busy bees on the hidcote lavender; a riot of summer colour

History of the Nursery

Plants4Presents was founded and launched in 2004 and since then has steadily grown on year by year. We have been at our present site just outside Newick in East Sussex since September 2006 but it has taken nearly 3 years to adapt the old chrysanthemum nursery to our needs and reclaim all the areas that had been left empty. Because we sell everything from hardy camellias and bay trees to tender houseplants and orchids we have had to adapt different areas to provide the best growing conditions. Last year we introduced two cool growing areas to compliment the heated propagation areas and just this spring we were delighted to finish our custom made outside area for the roses and hardy native trees.

Roses and Cherry trees in the spring sunshine; Oak trees and farmers lemons in the new outside area

From this two acre site in the heart of East Sussex we also operate three sister companies - Fletching Glasshouses - which grows and supplies a range of organic salad and vegetables to local shops and box schemes the Intelligent Garden which supplies all kinds of useful tools for gardeners and www.ladybirdplantcare.co.uk - which supplies organic pest controls and predators by mail order. This combination of horticultural businesses works well together and we are able to 'borrow' skilled staff from the nursery side to help out at peak times on Plants4Presents.

Unfortunately our nursery is very much mail order and we are not open to the public - sorry!