Bregover Plants
Nursery & Cottage Garden
Hardy plants for the herbaceous border, cottage garden, woodland, waterside and wild garden.
The nursery and cottage garden are situated in a steep valley on the edge of Bodmin Moor above the River Lynher in east Cornwall. High rainfall and frost, combined with a lack of winter sunshine, mean that our growing season begins later than in the rest of the county.
In the summer months, without any cooling sea breezes, it can become very hot and as most of my plants are grown outside without any protection their condition will not always appear perfect!
Most of the plants are hardy, at least for conditions in the south of Britain. Any plants that do require shelter are so described.
Bregover Plants List for 2016Please email (see details below) for my new plant list, available as a pdf from mid-March.
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Snowdrops Galanthus ‘Magnet’
Frosted Seed Umbel
Adoxa moscatellina
Frosted leaf litter |
OPENING TIMES
Please check with us beforehand
From mid March to mid October: WEDNESDAYS from 11am. to 5pm.
Other days/times by appointment
At weekends, please telephone first to make sure that we are open as we are often away at plant sales.
The nursery is always CLOSED on Mondays and Thursdays.
DATES FOR THIS YEAR
April 2nd-3rd 2016 |
This year we will have a stand at the County Spring Flower show at Boconnoc |
May 7th 2016 |
We will be at The Hardy Plant Sale at Truro Cattle Market |
Chrysosplenium davidianum
The Cottage Garden
Many rare and unusual plants are grown in the borders around the cottage and along the stream in our field. Spring remains my favourite time of year but late summer has the best show of perennials.
Changes happen slowly and despite a feeling that the garden should be 'more designed', it simply refuses to conform; and we enjoy a wide variety of wildlife ~ twenty-five different kinds of butterflies, un-countable moths & hover flies. Bats roost in the potting shed and Hazel Dormice breed and nest around the garden and field so we have to take great care when trimming shrubs & hedges. Some interesting birds include Lesser Redpoll & Siskins and Brambling, Redwing & Fieldfare in cold winters.
However not all species are welcome ~ rabbits & Bank Voles continue to destroy many plants; Roe deer visit the field but luckily they have not ventured into the garden! For controlling slugs we are using a product based on an iron compound that is proving fairly successful & is not palatable or toxic to other creatures.
Part of the adjacent wood is carpeted with Primroses and Bluebells in spring, something to treasure and safeguard as a 'wild' place so planting is limited to groups of wild daffodils and single Snowdrops which are already spreading.
The garden remains a 'working cottage garden' with stacks of wood waiting to be cut, overflowing compost heaps and, as we rarely catch up with all the work, it is not always neat and tidy but we hope to have part of the garden ready for visitors by the end of June this year.
HOW TO FIND US
Middlewood is about 5 miles from the A.30 and approximately half-way between Launceston and Liskeard on the B.3254 which also goes through South Petherwin and Upton Cross.
OS map ref: SX 273 752
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Further Information and Presentations
Because of my interest in wildlife, especially dormice, I am happy to give talks and presentations to interested groups.
