Welcome to the website of Weasdale Nurseries, retail mail-order specialist suppliers of hardy trees and shrubs since 1950.

Servicing customers throughout EC Europe, our open-ground grown plants are carefully packed and shipped to our customers during the period of winter dormancy, from early November until mid-late April, ready for planting in their new surroundings.

Please take your time to move around our site and discover what we have to offer, how we do business, how to order, how to plant your trees and much more besides. We look forward to welcoming you as a new customer in the near future.   Useful hint: If you'd prefer to see larger text press "Ctrl" and the "+" key and you will zoom to a larger page size.  To return to a smaller size, press "Ctrl" and "-" (the key next to the +).

2012-2013 Season - Lifting and Despatching Update - Friday 10th May 2013.

So, the time has come to raise the drawbridge on the lifting season and finally call a halt to bare-root despatches until November.  This has been the latest season that we can recall, extended by the long period of cold and quite dry weather.  The Bank Holiday's rain and then warm sunshine has finally got everything moving and the nursery is now full of every shade of green once more.

If you have a requirement for larger numbers of plants, we can supply container-grown stock during the summer using pallet-delivery service, but this is not cost-competitive for small quantities of plants.

Sundries, books, gloves and so forth are available year-round as usual.

Over the summer months, we shall be preparing the new catalogue and stock-list and so, for now, please treat the stock shown here - and in the downloadable 2011-12 season catalogue - as indicative of what we grow.

Ash dieback?  Well, that's a challenge we could have done without and we're sorry to say that although we have plenty of Ash available, we can't move it until further notice, even though our stock is clean.  Never mind, that leaves about 998 other species and varieties of trees and shrubs that we have to offer so browse away or pick up the phone and ask if you would like help.  Our own belief is that we should carry on planting Ash and hope that some will grow through the disease cycle; it is too important a species to give up on. 

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Ash Dieback (Chalara fraxinea)

This serious disease of Ash is now in the UK and you can find out more about it under "Useful Stuff".  Sadly, it means that no-one is allowed to sell or move this valuable tree until further notice.

A customer earlier this season was considering the protection of his new Weasdale Christmas trees from the various beasties that are / might be intent on eating or damaging them.  He found our various website notes and planting instructions helpful, but nowhere could he find what he should use to guard against attack by the Porcupines that his (it has to be said, North American) reference book said are likely to be a problem.  We think that a Skunk should do the trick....

Red Squirrels

Many of you may know that the nurseries here are a stronghold of the endangered native Red Squirrel and we are on the front line of the invading Grey Squirrel's territory.  For an "aaah!" moment, click here: Bold little Red Squirrel for a brief introduction to an endearing friend of ours....   Her first approach was in the depths of a bitterly cold winter 2009, when probably particularly hungry.

Weasdale Nurseries are suppliers of bare root trees, Conifers, Hardy trees and shrubs, Hedge plants and planting sundries such as tree stakes, shelters and ties all by mail order.