Sales: 01943 660870
Guides, Advice & Inspiration Hub
If you're looking for planting and aftercare guidance for your trees or shrubs, or are just seeking a bit of garden advice and inspiration, you're in the right place.
Got a question not answered here? Visit our FAQs section.
Master the basics
Essential How to Planting & Aftercare Guides
10 min read
Video
How to Plant a Pot-Grown Tree
This step-by-step guide covers how to correctly a plant pot-grown tree (a tree supplied in a pot or container) into the ground, including how to install a single stake &...
Sally
10 min read
Video
How to Plant a Mature Tree
This step-by-step guide walks through how to plant a mature tree, including how to correctly install a Large or Extra Large Stake & Tie Kit (two stakes and a crossbar)....
Katie
10 min read
Video
How to Plant a Tree into a Container
This step-by-step guide covers how to correctly plant trees and shrubs into pots or containers. You can watch the video version of this guide below. Growing trees in containers is...
Ornamental Trees
10 min read
Video
How to Plant a Bare Root Tree
This step-by-step guide covers how to correctly plant a bare root tree into the ground, including how to install a single stake & tie. This guide is aimed specifically at...
Ornamental Trees
10 min read
Video
How to Prune Ornamental Trees Correctly
This step-by-step guide walks through how (and when) to prune ornamental trees correctly. You can watch a video version of this guide below. Pruning helps to keep trees healthy, promote...
Ornamental Trees
10 min read
Video
How to Install a Tree Irrigation Kit
This step-by-step guide covers how to install an irrigation kit for a tree being planted in the ground. You can watch the video version of this guide below. A tree...
Katie
10 min read
Video
How to Install a Container Irrigation Kit
This step-by-step guide covers how to install container irrigation kits, which are designed specifically for trees planted into pots or containers. You can watch a video version of this guide...
Ornamental Trees
Garden Guides, Advice & Inspiration
Winter Scented Plants & Trees
When considering what to plant in a winter garden, often the emphasis is on attractive, evergreen foliage, interesting bark or beautiful winter blossoms. There’s no denying that all of this...
Shinto Tree Planting Ceremony
Shinto Tree Planting Ceremony Abbotsholme School 125 year Anniversary | October 1st 2014 Shinto - An ancient Japanese belief in the bond between man and nature. Shinto is about communicating...
Autumn Colour Focus ~ Warming up your garden af...
Autumn is the beginning of the warmest season in terms of the colours that flood the foliage of your trees and shrubs, giving a vibrant burst of life as the...
Small and Striking Dwarf Trees
When choosing an ornamental tree for your garden, the species, colour, seasonal interest and price all have an influence on the decision, however, the size of the tree can often...
It's cropping and cooking time!
With end of July already upon us and August just around the corner, now is a great time to consider the large variety of fruit ready to be cropped. July...
Summer days out for little green fingers
With the summer holidays just around the corner, we’ve found a selection of fun and exciting places to take the kids to get them involved in wildlife and gardening; The Eden...
Summer Colours
With the blossoming of so many bright, new flowers in the spring and the rich, warm colours that autumn brings, summer is often overlooked as a season perfect for a...
Get The Look - Love Your Garden with Alan Titch...
The new series of Love Your Garden started last night on ITV and as always the show featured a remarkable family who greatly deserved a beautiful garden makeover. The first...
5 min read
Growing Japanese Maple Trees in Containers
Japanese Maple trees make up some of our most popular ornamental trees and our customers regularly ask us if they can be grown in containers. The great news is that...
Winter Gardens - Ornamental Trees That Look Gre...
While lots of other plants are hunkering down for the winter, there are many tree varieties that are just beginning to burst into life, bringing a wonderful splash of colour...
Apple Day
In celebration of National Apple Day I’d like to shine the spotlight on our Dual Cordon Apple Trees. Dual Cordons are a fantastic way of growing your own Apples at...
Fact Friday - Ginkgo Biloba Tree
Fact Friday Tree - Ginkgo BilobaThe Ginkgo Biloba Tree is a large deciduous species that begins life with a conical shape, becoming more irregular as it matures.The Ginkgo is a...
Thinking Ahead ~ Autumn Inspiration
All this rain in August has me thinking about the Autumn months. Beautiful crisp, cold days and colourful autumn leaves are my favourite time of year. Nothing brightens up the...
All things bright & beautiful
We often find butterflies inside the tunnels, when we do it's best to gently scoop them up and pop them outside as the tunnels can get over warm and the...
Fruit Trees - The Maths
Whilst in the 'Market Street' of my local supermarket this week I paused to think about the cost of buying fruit. To the probable consternation of my fellow shoppers, a...
Cherries are early this year
Gareth Cherry Stella[/caption]This year the cherry trees are producing their fruit early. Now the cherries are starting to ripen-up in the fields it's staff like Gareth who get the pick...
Top 3 Garden Blogs
Here at Ornamental Tree Nurseries we love technology and when tech and gardening come together we can't get enough!Here are our top 3 garden blogs;My Tiny Plot A veritable feast...
Boozy Berries
It's this time of year when I start getting handed carrier bags full ripe fruit in the office. Last year I made colossal vats of fruit jam, apple and sloe,...
Cornus - Dogwoods
There are some glorious flowering Dogwoods out there and now is the time that they are looking fantastic. Cornus kousa chinensis with its creamy white bracts looks good grown as...
Wordless Wednesday - Japanese Maples
Here on the tree nursery we are surrounded by handsome plants daily, catching my eye this week are the fantastic Japanese Maples. Take a look at some of my favourite...
Showing 120 out of 145 Items