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us at Chenies Manor
Chenies Manor Plant and Garden Fair will be held Sunday 20th July
and we will be there! Do please come along. We’ll be creating
a display garden within a wonderful topiary parterre in the grounds
of the Manor. If you’ve never been, we strongly recommend
it as the gardens to the Manor are wonderful (amazing beds and borders
to dream over), the house is fascinating (listed in the Doomsday
survey no less – even King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn stayed
at the Manor!) and the plant fair is well worth a browse. Fingers
firmly crossed for some fine July weather. It’s very much
a family event with a fun-packed Punch & Judy on hand to entertain
the little ones.
You’ll find Chenies Manor on the A404 between Chorleywood
and Little Chalfont. The Fair is open between 10am and 5pm and the
house from 2pm and 5pm.
There is an entrance fee of £4 (children under 15 admitted
half-price) and there’s a further charge of £3 to go
into the house. Car parking is free.
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Think big with must-have specimens
A new welcome addition to the ever-expanding Buckingham plant stable
arrived in a 40ft articulated lorry at the garden centre few weeks
ago – huge specimen shrubs!
 Fuelled
by the ‘quick-fix’ makeover approach to gardening (thanks
Alan, Charlie, Tommy and Diarmuid!), we can all benefit from these
amazing plants and create instant impact into our gardens –
whatever their size.
We’ve shipped in many of the plants from Italy (they tend
to enjoy a much longer growing season than we do) and we’ve
also sourced a diverse range from our regular UK growers as well.
The range includes larger abelia, box (Buxus), euonymus, fatsia
japonica, escallonia, berberis, photinia, hebes, hydrangeas, ceaonothus
as well as trained forms of clematis, cotoneaster and mouth-watering
grapes. There are standard lollipop versions of bay trees, Italian
privet and euonymus if you’re looking for a new front door
plant. If you want to introduce a touch of the Mediterranean into
your summer garden you can choose from olives, oleander, palms (three
types - phoenix, chamaerops and trachycarpus) as well as stately
cordylines and spiky agaves.
These plants are ideal for patio areas where instant effect is
required and many will prosper in large ceramic or terracotta pots,
provided they are re-potted into a gritty, open textured compost
(we recommend 3-part John Innes No3, 1-part pulverised bark and
1-part lime-free horticultural grit).
If your soil is on the heavy clay side, don’t let this put
you off establishing larger, more so-called ‘tender’
plant material. Incorporating plenty of lime-free horticultural
grit into the ‘sub-soil’ as well as adding some into
your usual planting compost in the base of the planting hole is
all that is required.
So, next time you visit; do come have a look at our new arrivals!
You might feel like Tom Thumb in a Lilliputian landscape, but set
them into the garden and you’ll add drama and a great conversational
piece – but, hey, who says all gardeners have to be patient!
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 An
end to Blanket Weed?
Is blanket weed a constant problem in your pond, and have you spent
money on cures which have not really worked? Well here in The Aquatics
department of the Garden Centre we may have the answer for you.
We now have an Oase Water Computer which will let you know what
you need to do to your water Chemistry in order to banish blanket
weed.
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Summer Offer on Bradford Furniture Set
90cm Hardwood Table, 4 chairs with cushions, parasol base and parasol,
normal retail price £232.98 now ONLY £179.10, whilst
stocks last. Quality good, price excellent so do come and see.
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