L I V E 2 4 -SE V EN
THROUGH THE GA RDEN GAT E
ASHWOODS NURSERIES, KINGSWINFORD
This month our Media Horticulturalist, Camilla Bassett-Smith, visits a nursery and garden full to the brim with a fantasia of February delights…
Point your car in a northerly direction, and in around an hour, you’ll be horticulturally surrounded by some of February’s finest!
Ashwoods Nurseries is located in Kingswinford and is not only home to a collection of plants that will make your bobble hatted mind boggle, but also to John’s Garden – a real plantsman’s paradise created by nursery owner and horticultural genius John Massey.
This is a private garden open on certain days, this month, on the 10th February between 10am and 4pm. (The Nursery is open every day apart from Christmas Day and Boxing Day and is full of the friendliest informative staff you could wish to meet!)
John believes that a garden should not become a museum but that it should be constantly evolving and with so many new and exciting plants to try, the possibilities are always endless. This certainly rings true in his garden, for dwarf conifers many years old dance a merry winter tune with the latest Hellebore hybrids. There is so much to take in and many rarities rising from their roots at this time of year.
The bright white of the multiple silver birch is eye-catching and echoed in the milky marvel of around 100 different varieties of snowdrops with captivating names such as ‘Green Comet’ and ‘Treasure’. A wide selection are available to buy in the green at the nursery from a few pounds to over £100 for an exquisite ‘Green Tipped Balloon’. It is always better to plant snowdrops ‘in the green’ – meaning in leaf at this time of year as dried bulbs in autumn rarely seem to result in success.
Prunus rufa – the Himalayan Cherry – is busy peeling its glossy mahogany bark and is a real showstopper at this time of year. Dogwoods and willows also flash their colourful stems, competing for your attention.
© Ashwood Nurseries
© Ashwood Nurseries
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