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Master the basics
Essential How to Planting & Aftercare Guides
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Environmental Policy
It is part of our environmental policy to avoid the indiscriminate use of toxic pesticides. To do so, we believe, is wasteful and endangers wildlife. Instead, we operate a system...
Container grown plants available now
>It's May, the world is green with fresh new growth, fruit trees have flowered, the sun is warm. There is still time to plant pot grown fruit trees, but this...
Testimonials
Some superb testimonials from our superb customers! Thank you all for your kind comments."Ornamental Tree Nurseries has a comprehensive list of trees, many of them rare and unusual..."Alan Titchmarsh"The service...
Apple Bramley Seedling
It is a wet and windy Friday afternoon and I’m sat here thinking about food! In particular the Apple Bramley Seedling. The Bramley Apple is widely recognised as the very...
Pretty In Pink
Pretty in Pink - A lovely selection of some of the top pink plants for the garden! From deep pinkish/purples to palest candy floss, pink plants make a statement and...
Resplendent Reds
Red is fiery and hot. It's a vibrant colour that evokes a range of seemingly conflicting emotions from passion and love to violence or danger. In the landscape red adds...
Witch Hazel Hamamelis
Now is the time that the winter flowering shrub Hamamelis unfurl their ribbon like petals. These Witch Hazel shrubs boast a choice of red, orange and yellow scented flowers all...
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Trees for Winter Interest
There are many deciduous trees that give fantastic winter interest, from stunning bark to those that hold their berries or even flower in winter.Maples and Birch trees offer some of...
Dull Days and Bright Birches
It's dull grey weather like this that brings the bright white bark of white stem birches out! The white barked birch trees on the nursery look amazing against the greying...
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Around The Nursery Today In Pictures
It's cold out, with a thick lingering frost on everything. Here are a selection of photographs that I've taken whilst out and about this morning on the nursery. If you'd...
Primary School Competition Winners
We had a fantastic response to our 'Win A Mini Orchard For Your Primary School' competition, with hundreds of entries selecting the 3 top poems was a daunting task but...
Apple Tasting Success
Our apple tasting day was a real success with a great turn out and lots of interest in the different varieties available. Sue our accounts manager spent countless hours stewing...
Why Choose A Family Fruit Tree?
A family fruit tree is a great choice for those with room for just one tree.The family fruit tree consists of 2 or more varieties of a fruit grafted onto...
Growing Blueberries
Growing blueberries couldn’t be easier!Blueberries are one of very few fruits to originate from North America, where it is referred to by Native Americans as ‘Star Berry’ due to the...
Top Picks – Fragrant Flowers And Foliage
Often we choose trees and shrubs for our gardens that are aesthetically pleasing; sumptuous foliage, rich flowers and striking architectural forms but we mustn’t over look the importance of fragrance....
Around The Nursery Today
Some of the photographs that I've taken around the nursery today... Pear 'Thorn' - Looking rosy the perry pear 'Thorn'. View here Nyssa sylvatica - The black gum or black...
Trees For Small Gardens
Blog update - November 2018.This blog is packed with tree ideas for small gardens. For those of us with small gardens, patio gardens or courtyard gardens choosing a tree is...
Homage To The Moggies
Fluffy and Socks This very short post is to pay homage to our resident pussy cats - Fluffy and Socks who do a marvellous job keeping our sheds rodent free!...
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Trees For Pots
Many of us have a patio garden or balcony garden on which to create a lovely green habitat, others may have a roof garden; any of these small gardens can...
Win A Mini Orchard For Your Primary School
Win a mini orchard for your primary school!Growing fruit trees is a great way to promote healthy eating and an understanding of where our food comes from. We think it’s...
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