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Feb. 2005
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Baby Plants Arrive

By special request

Seed Potatoes, Onion Sets and Garlic

New Opening Hours

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Buckingham
Garden Centre
Tingewick Road
Buckingham
MK18 4AE

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01280 822133

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01280 815491

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Baby Plants Arrive

You know when spring is just around the corner, and no, it’s not when the first Cadbury’s Crème Eggs are spotted in the local supermarket aisles! No, far more exciting is when, if by magic, masses of pots containing the fresh green shoots of rooted cuttings and seedlings descend into the garden centre. There’s no doubt about it, seeing these plants ever so slightly gets those ‘green’ fingers twitching with the anticipation that the new growing season is well and truly underway! Well, this season is now with us and we’re stacked to the gunnels with a wide range of young bedding plants and shortly vegetable plants, too!

This year we’ve increased our range dramatically to reflect the shift into this popular market and we have sourced UK growers who offer plenty of varieties to tempt you with, including hardy, patio, trailing and bush fuchsias, F1 Hybrid Geraniums (Pelargoniums), bush and trailing Petunias as well as part-grown seedlings including Impatiens (busy lizzies), Begonia semperflorens, Geraniums, Lobelia, Petunias and the usual basket plants species such as Helichrysum, Verbena, Nepeta, Plectranthus and Lamium.

The nitty gritty: The cutting raised young plants are sold in net pots (4.6cm) and are priced from 89p with larger plug plants (6cm) ranging from £1.30 each, depending on the variety. The pots of seedlings cost £2.99 and £3.49 respectively. We offer quantity discounts on all our young plant range… so, don’t delay, and get planting today!

STOP PRESS: Plug-U-Grow plants now in.

By special request

If you are looking for a larger sized tree, shrub or fruit tree then now is a good time to speak to us about bare-rooted stock. We use a range of Belgium and Dutch suppliers and are able to offer a ‘special order’ service to our Garden Centre customers, so if you are tempted to splash out on a tree or a more unusual plant then this is great time to check us out.

This season, we’ve had much interest in the wonderful snow-white stems of Betula jacquemontii for bold group plantings or more unusual trees, like the handkerchief tree. You might be tempted by Alan Titchmarsh’s favourite tree, the katsura tree (Cercidiphyllum japonica), you know the one that smells of burnt sugar at leaf fall.

Other popular requests have included Mountain Ash varieties, the Indian Bean Tree (Catalpa bignonioides) in both its green and yellow leaf forms, the wedding cake tree (Cornus controversa Variegata), Liquidamber, Winter Flowering Cherries (Prunus subhirtella) and how about this one… Ugni molinae Flambeau (honestly this is a plant you can grow in the UK)!!

Seed Potatoes, Onion Sets and Garlic

Seed potatoes are now in stock, so for those enthusiasts who want lots of different varieties, do come early to get the best choice. There are fourteen varieties of first earlies, eight varieties of second earlies and eleven varieties of main crop. We also have 6 new and unusual continental varieties this year: Alpha, Bintje, Doré, Irene, Sirtema, Spunta.

Also the onion sets and garlic are also in stock so the new veggie season is definitely with us.

New Opening Hours

We are pleased to announce that we will be extending our opening hours on Friday and Saturday. On Sunday we will now be open 10:30am to 4:30pm, opening at 10am for viewing. The full opening hours are shown below

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