For information on opening times contact:
julie@willowfieldnursery.co.uk
Tel: 07887 730240
We moved into our home in August 2007. It's a lovely friendly Edwardian house but what really caught my eye was the fact that it had a 300ft (100m) garden.
The house and garden had been neglected for some time and when we first viewed the property we could only walk a third of the gardens length before we came face to face with an impenetrable wall of overgrown shrubs, weeds, brambles and stinging nettles. Of the garden that we could see the shrubs and brambles from the side borders were so overgrown that we could only just pick our way through a lawn width of about 8 ft.
Over the coming months we hacked, rotavated and burnt our way through the garden until a year or so later when we finally reached the very back, we stopped, cracked open some cans of beer and toasted our efforts.
What we uncovered was a garden that had once been loved. A large pond, fruit trees, many chicken coops, garden sheds, a small greenhouse, a BBQ area were all found under the weeds, but very few perennials or flowers had survived the years of neglect.
So we set to work re-planting the garden- which is still a work in progress but we are getting there; 300ft is a large expanse to fill with plants and there was no way that we could afford to buy ready grown plants with which to fill the space. Luckily for me I am surrounded by friends and family who also love gardening and with their help I collected seeds, cuttings and plant divisions and that is where Willow Field Nursery began- with a glut of plants, a passion for growing and an opportunity to share.
