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Time for a cocktail! Pulborough-based New Place Nurseries Ltd is offering retailers a cocktail of beautiful plants for 2012.
This stunning range of Coprosma are plants which promise to add a splash of colour to any plant area.
foliage, this range has been selected by Stephen Burton of Annton Nursery, Cambridge in NZ, and will provide a stunning array of colour throughout the year. They are available from New Place Nurseries as either a
N
ative to New Zealand and well known for their colourful evergreen
9cm liner or 10ltr specimen. Although most are only
hardy to -5°C, if planted in a sheltered position and given some protection for the winter months, or brought into a conservatory if container grown, this range will reward you with a rainbow of colours throughout the year. All of them have nice compact growing habits and are ideally suited for growing in tubs or containers where their full beauty can be admired.
WIDE RANGE OF VIBRANT COLOURS The range consists of: Midnight Martini, with its small glossy leaves which change from bronze with shades of green and yellow in the spring to a rich black with orange and red tones in the summer and autumn; Pina Colada, with glossy golden-hued foliage which has a distinctive bronzy overtone that intensifies in the autumn months; Scarlett O’Hara with stunning red foliage which features a dark brown to black centre to the leaves and turns a dark burgundy colour during the autumn and winter; Tequila Sunrise offers a wide range of vibrant colours during the year, starting in spring with a showy lime-green/yellow before changing in the summer to a sunset orange and finally a deep- crimson burgundy during the autumn and winter. George Duncan, the founder of
New Place Nurseries Ltd, sadly passed away in November aged 82, following a long illness. He started New Place Nurseries with an operation occupying the 100-acre site at Pulborough in West Sussex in 1958, initially growing wheat before moving into fruit production, growing soft fruit for Kentish Gardens and top fruit for Fargro. He later developed one of the first Pick- your-Own farms in the South
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East. In 1975, due to the farm’s fruit-growing connections and soft water, Duncan was asked by Fargro to consider container tree and ericaceous plant production for the expanding co-operative now called Farplants. To manage this, Duncan appointed John Hedger in 1976 and supplied Farplants with a wide range of product including Ballerina Trees and Pride of Place Plants, both of which Duncan was integrally involved with during their introduction. In the late 80s, the nursery
decided to leave Farplants to specialise in the supply of container trees to the garden centre market and pot-grown liners for nurseries countrywide, expanding to its position today as one of the leading suppliers for both products in the UK. After a company re-organisation in 2008, the nursery continues in its present form with John Hedger as managing director and a team of directors including Duncan’s daughter Clare as finance director.
For more information call 01798 873774 or email
sales@npnurseries.co.uk
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