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Events
Suttons Demonstration Day - Saturday 10th March Clyst St Mary (2-4pm) & Old Rydon Lane (10am-12pm)
Tom Sharples, Suttons Seeds Senior Horticultural Manager, will do a demonstration and talk that will cover the following topics followed by a question and answer session:
Sow and grow - how to use the 16 Jiffy 7 propagator and pellets and its benefits
Speedy Veg sowing
Seed tapes and mats how it's easy to grow even if you are a beginner
This will be a brilliant opportunity to get all the advice you need and products to get your seed sowing off to a perfect start.
Garden Re-Leaf Day - Tuesday 13th March - Old Rydon Lane
A national event to kick start the gardening year and raise money for Greenfingers (making magical gardens for children's hospices). We will be offering Nursery Propagation Tours at 11am and 2pm. Tickets are £2.50 with all money going to Greenfingers. Visitors will get to go behind the scenes of our nursery in Old Rydon Lane and meet our propagation experts who will demonstrate seed and cutting propagation techniques and answer questions. Each ticket holder will receive two free trays for seedlings/cuttings. Please buy your tickets from our garden centres or by calling 01392 873672. Please note that there will be a fair amount of standing but some chairs will be provided. Tours should last approximately one hour.
Children under 13 years can enter our Garden For Mum - Garden in a seed tray competition. Simply make a garden that you think a mum would like in a seed tray. Entries should be brought to our Old Rydon Lane garden centre on Saturday 17th March between 9am and 11am. It's free to enter. There will be two age categories (under 7s and 7-13) and all entries will be displayed for visitors to vote. Visitors will have to vote with their coins (all money going to Greenfingers charity). Each entry will have a pot displayed next to it and the entry in each age category that raises the most money for Greenfingers will win a prize. The under 7s winner will receive Gruffalo gardening goodies worth nearly £29 and the 7-13 yr old winner will receive Garden Apprentice tools worth £34. Entries can be collected and given to Mums from 3pm on Sunday 18th March. Prize ceremony at 4pm.
Alpine Society - Saturday 24th March - Clyst St Mary & Old Rydon Lane
The Devon branch of the Alpine Society will once again be at both of our garden centres inspiring us with displays, answering questions and explaining more about this great garden society.
Tree Field Tours
If you missed our tree field tours and wish to purchase trees then our nursery manager Phil would be pleased to make an appointment for you to come and view our tree field where we have thousnads of fruit, ornamental and native trees available for immediate delivery/collection bare rooted.
To make an appointment, please e-mail Phil at sales@stbridgetnurseries.co.uk .
Plant of the Month - February
A small and very special group of shrubs flower in late winter, just as the days are lengthening and spring is approaching. Of course these are a delight, bringing colour and excitement to beds and borders. What comes as an unexpected pleasure is the scent that some of these produce. Especially if situated in sheltered corners of the garden, this scent can accumulate and intensify in the moist, heavy air of winter days. Mahonia is the perfect candidate if flowers and scent are what you want. Also known as Lily of the Valley bush, Mahonia is the perfect choice for a shaded or partially shaded position. One way to maximise the benefit of this plant is to grow it at the back of borders so that when the plants in front die back, the flowers and foliage of the Mahonia are clear to see.
‘Winter sun’ is an appealing variety, as well as a beautiful shrub and if the real thing fails to put in much of an appearance, the dense clusters of beautifully scented yellow flowers along the stems of this Mahonia will bring joy to dull days.
We grow and sell six varieties of Mahonia, namely:
aquifolium Apollo and Altropurpurea, japonica Bealei, Charity, Lionel Fortesque and Winter sun.
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