Sitting some 270 metres ( 850 feet in old money ) above sea-level, growing conditions here could be loosely described as being ‘testing’ but, the spin-off of this is that our slow-grown open-ground stock can be despatched almost anywhere and look forward to an easier life than it had enjoyed here at Weasdale. As a result, we have loyal knots of customers in some of the bleakest parts of the British Isles, who are united by a real sense of achievement in being able to grow anything in their locale. Of course we also despatch to customers in ‘ordinary’ parts of the country and now, with the new Plant Passport regulations in place, have also extended our service to EU European customers.

Our ‘shop-window’ for our customers is an 86page (2008-2009 season) A4-sized illustrated catalogue, which is packed with detailed information about the plants that we sell, their sizes, their prices and with line-drawings to indicate their form and ultimate size compared with, say, a house or pipe-smoking gardener. This season, it is avalable free of charge to any UK address or £3.50 (£4.00 with credit card) to an address in The Rest Of The World but, for the latter, please bear in mind that we cannot export plants to the R.O.T.W.! You can print off a catalogue request form elsewhere in this site and send it to us with your payment for despatch by return. You may choose to give one to friends with a Gift Voucher to spend up to a certain limit for a birthday or anniversary present, but please see the passage below about Despatch of Orders in case the date of arrival of such a present is critical.

Although not convinced that printed matter will ever be completely replaced by electronic media, (part of the joy of reading is the silence of it all and the tactile quality of different papers and.... I could go on, but wont) you may download our catalogue in these very web pages (go to "Downloads") or run your virtual shopping trolley through the stock, picking a Cotoneaster here and a Euonymus there until your garden or work-schedule is full. Click on "Catalogue" in the menu.

Despatch of Orders

As we grow our stock in the open-ground (ie in the soil and not in containers), we start despatching orders to our customers once the plants have become dormant for the winter and continue until just before bud-break in the spring. In a ‘normal’ year, this would ordinarily be from around the first week in November until, at the latest, late April or even early May (the later dates being reserved for the late-leafers such as Beech, Oak, Ash etc. and many of the conifers). Whilst our growing season may be horribly short (on account of our altitude and northerly latitude), the corollary is that our sales season is uncommonly long, enabling us to be despatching plants long after the time when more southerly or lowland nurseries have closed their doors for the summer.

 All sundries, such as stakes, tree-ties, rabbit guards, gloves and midge-proof clothing are available year-round.

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