New
Plants and Products
Our new mail order catalogue is now out! You can pick one up from the shop, download it from our web site or request that one is sent to you in the post by calling 01280 827933.
Our online shop has now been updated with all the new lines in this year's catalogue.
The new gardening season traditionally starts in the autumn and at Buckingham Nurseries we herald and celebrate it with the publication of our Autumn 2011 - Summer 2012 Mail Order Catalogue.
So, what's new and exciting for this season, asks Chris Day? Well, for starters, let's begin in the fruit department. Last year there was lots of interest in a new red-fleshed apple being promoted in the gardening press.
Well this year we have a new exciting variety with an unusual, attractive pink speckled 'rosette' pattern deep in the flesh that's called, strangely enough, 'Rosette'. This apple produces delicious, crisp and juicy red fruits in August on a compact tree, which is perfect for the smaller garden.
We also have apple 'Christmas Pippin', a much improved 'Cox' type apple maturing later in the season with a lovely sweet flavour and pleasant honey aftertaste.
This year has been superb for soft fruits - especially the likes of strawberries and raspberries, so we have a couple of new varieties to tempt you with. Raspberry 'Cascade Delight' is perfect if you have heavy soils where raspberry crops have been difficult to grow as this variety tolerates much more moisture and is resistant to root rot. It produces handsome crops of very large conical fruits with a lovely sweet flavour. It crops late season.
The other new variety, 'Sugana', which like other autumn raspberries will crop on the new season's growth from August to October, but you should leave these stems to re-crop the following June, whilst training the new stems in for the following autumn's crop.
The fruits are delicious and are larger than traditional autumn croppers, and best of all this variety is perfectly suited to growing in large pots on the patio!
We love our trees and it appears we are planting more of them, which is great for the environment as well as the landscape, especially if the tree keeps to a manageable size. We have added a named variety of the spindle tree, Euonymus 'Red Cascade' this year as it grows to around 10ft (3m) and makes a lovely compact tree, famed for its unusual rosy-pink fruits which look spectacular through the winter as well as the amazing autumn colour from the foliage. Our other new tree for a larger garden is the weeping purple beech. This makes a spectacular tree in time, a real head-turner with its deep purple foliage which later turns copper in winter on a weeping structure that literally cascades. A class-act tree, give it centre stage in your garden and you will not be disappointed!
Our hedging range continues to offer the wide and varied palette of native, evergreen, deciduous and ornamental hedges we are famous for, and this year we've added a couple of collections. Our Horse Friendly Hedging basically offers a selection of mainly native species that are safe to horses (should they graze on them) but still require some protection from horses to get them fully established. Please see the catalogue or website for the full listing of plants that make up the collection.
Our Butterfly and Bee Collection is a direct response from our customers wanting to encourage more butterfly and bee activity in the garden in the wake of declining numbers. This collection will certainly help increase and expand the variety of the fauna that is likely to visit your garden and of course these plants attract perfect pollinators if you have a new or an established orchard or fruit or vegetables planted nearby. Plants featured in this collection include Buddleja, Cotoneaster lacteus, Old English Lavender, Marjoram and Sedum.
Finally, the beautiful bearded iris, perfect for that hot, sunny border where others things sadly wither and fail. We've two new additions to our iris range. The first variety is 'Amorpha', a dwarf white flowered form with gold edging, its stature makes a perfect variety for front of borders and rockeries. The variety 'Grape Adventure' rounds off our review of new varieties. This highly attractive purple flowered iris has white veining and an orange throat together with a delicate fragrance set on tall 60-75cm (24-30in) stems.
Broadleaf P4
Broadleaf P4 is the ideal product to use alongside Rootgrow to get your hedge, tree or any other plants off to a really good start, unless you are planting into soil that is always wet. Even if the soil is waterlogged Broadleaf P4 can improve the drainage so long as a drainage channel exists.
For optimum growth plants need three things from the soil or compost: MOISTURE, AERATION and NUTRIENTS. Broadleaf P4 helps improve availability of all three. At the same time it can extend the intervals between irrigating by treble or more saving time and possibly money.
Broadleaf P4 is a granular polymer that can absorb hundreds of times its own weight of water as, when the granules come into contact with water they absorb it, swelling to form particles of water-charged gel. Incorporated into soil or compost, the polymer acts as many tiny reservoirs of 'contained' rain or irrigation water. Soil and compost water-holding capacity is greatly increased and the roots of the growing crop will colonise the gel particles, from which they can extract over 95% of the stored water as required, over a prolonged period of time.
By using Broadleaf P4 you will dramatically reduce plant losses to moisture stress and thereby improve establishment and growth. Soil and compost are also easier to re-wet and wilted plants recover more quickly when water is applied after drought stress, although we would emphasise that you should not allow plants to become dry.
Because the polymer holds water so efficiently, losses by evaporation and percolation are reduced, so fewer nutrients are leached away. In fact, dissolved nutrients can be absorbed into the polymer (gel particles) then extracted from it by plant roots unimpeded, thus further improving nutrient usage.
The presence of the gel particles increases the porosity of soils and composts, counteracts compaction and creates a permanently open, well aerated structure. This promotes development of strong, extensive root systems which are better able to support vigorous, robust top growth. Together with the secondary root of the mycorrhizal fungi produced by use of Rootgrow any newly planted plants will have the best start possible. |
Young Laurel
plants. Plants on right hand side are using Broadleaf P4 - showing better root delvelopment
Plants grown with BroadviewP4 on right were watered less often but grew faster
Details of root growing through Broadleaf P4
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Broadleaf P4 is inert, safe for all plant species in all types of growing media and is non-contaminating, is durable in most growing conditions and crop production systems, giving up to five years of environmental benefit as they have unlimited drying out and re-hydrating capacity. |
ROOT-WRAPPED ROSES
 We have extended our range of root-wrapped roses onto our web site and these proved to be very popular. They are a good way of purchasing top quality roses at a more economical price than pot grown plants. They are field grown, then lifted and root-wrapped in polythene with damp peat to keep the roots moist and healthy.
We now have listed 23 varieties of climbers and ramblers, 19 varieties of large flowered (hybrid tea), 27 varieties of cluster flowered (floribunda) and 7 patio roses. We will be shortly adding to this range 5 ground cover roses. We hope to have these available until about March next year, but we would advise ordering early to be sure to get the varieties you want.
Sections in our catalogue:
Hedging, Trees, Shrubs & Conifers, Ornamental
Trees & Shrubs, Specialist Plants, Ornamental
Grasses, Climbers, Ground
Cover & Perennials, Ferns, Hostas, Iris, Fruit, Citrus
Plants, Root-Wrapped Roses, Camellias, Herbs & Vegetable Plants, Celebrity Fuchsias
Seeds, Seed Potatoes
RootGrow, Broadleaf P4, Plant Protection, Plant & Tree Ties, Stakes & Canes, Growhouse & Cloches, Gloves, Watering, Fertilisers, Root Grow Friendly Fungi, Weed Control & Mats, Tidy Up Bags & Sheets, Pest Control
Gift Vouchers, Barbecues, Aquatics |
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