four oaks Autumn collection
at Four Oaks Welland Vale Nurseries expertly grows, produces and trades over 2000 varieties of high quality trees, shrubs, conifers and herbaceous plants on its site in the heart of Rutland. Its national ‘same week’ deliveries provide high-quality produce directly to your door, fully labelled and bar-coded to suit your individual requirements. Welland Vale Plants have previously been promoted at the British Plant Buying Fairs in March and August each year. As part of its expansive marketing programme, the nursery also exhibited at the premier of the National Plant Show where full details of its superb autumn collection were made available. Welland Vale has teamed up with some selected specialist growers to offer this comprehensive and competitively priced range for the coming season. These collections are available throughout the autumn and spring, and include a plethora of plant material from bare root transplants to camellias and from Helleborus to winter flowering heathers. The range of hedging conifers (pictured) are also a popular choice now, ahead of National Conifer Week in early October. See Welland Vale Nurseries at Four Oaks on stand C68. For more information call 01572 822729 or visit
www.wellandvale.co.uk
Rubus
introductions. These are ready to order for immediate delivery and tempting special offers encourage you to do just that! On show for the first time will be two superb new black Sambucus clones, a variegated Clematis wilsonii and a lime yellow clone of Rubus Olympic Double, all exclusive to Northern Liners (and so new they have not yet even been named, so any suggestions are welcome!). Other new plants on stand will include Ugni Butterball, Euonymus Kathy, Sambucus Eiffel, Euphorbia Ascot Rainbow, Caryopteris White Surprise and a range of new Heucheras, including Blackberry Jam, Electra, Berry Smoothie and Fire Chief. See The Northern Liner
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seed range for 2011. From its unique industry position and marketplace data, Kings has been able to gauge seed sector trends, drawing upon information from in-house sales. These include young plant growers for retailers, wholesale sales to hobby seed packers, Kings’ own retail and mail order sales, own label packet sales and most importantly sales to allotment growers nationally, of
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500,000 liners and grafting stocks
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akover Nurseries is now in its 31st year. The traditions and standards that the
nursery was built on still apply today. The original 20 acres of owned land has grown to over 400 acres and includes facilities for cold storage, grading and despatch, plus a hectare of plants grown under protection. There are over 4 million seedlings on an annual basis to grow on as stocks, hedging plants, feathered trees and specimens. The Oakover container site produces in the region of 500,000 liners and grafting stocks together with large trees and shrubs in a range of pot sizes up to 90L. The new 2010/11 brochure will be available at Four Oaks. For more information call 01233 713016.
www.oakovernurseries.co.uk
SUPERIOR LAURELS FROM A SPECIALIST GROWER
Laurica Plants is a leading laurel nursery selling to wholesalers throughout Europe. It offers large stocks of superior quality uniform plants in a wide range of shapes and sizes, with all trees carrying a certificate guaranteeing a top quality product. In addition to the standard shapes such as crowns, pyramids, columns and balls, Laurica Plants offers diverse shapes including twisted trunks, columns on trunk, imperial crown and
plaited trunk. It also hires out laurels internationally and organises the transportation. The company’s showpiece is the Lauretum, which accommodates the largest laurels of the collection in all seasons, and is a ‘viewing garden’ where the trees can be shown to advantage. See Laurica Plants on stands E 144 – 146. For more information email
info@laurica.be or visit
www.laurica.be
t the 2010 Four Oaks Show, Kings Seeds will launch its new packet
which there are nearly 350,000. Consumer focus groups and retailers were widely consulted for their requirements of packet design. Bright appealing images and key crop points should be on the front of the packets. To create a colourful, vibrant display under low light in garden centre glasshouse and under artificial light in other retailers, Kings has varnished all packets in the new range, giving a high gloss finish to packet pictures. See Kings seeds on stand D51. For more information call 01376 570000 or email
sales@kingsseeds.com
he Northern Liner Company will have a wide range of top quality liners including many recent
Company on stands E120+121 / E82+83. For more information call 01253 790859, email
sales@northernliners.net or visit
www.northernliners.co.uk
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