{"id":13191,"date":"2024-03-03T22:52:12","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T22:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13191"},"modified":"2024-03-07T14:57:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T14:57:22","slug":"a-plantsman-nursery-holden-clough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/art-and-sculpture\/photos\/a-plantsman-nursery-holden-clough\/","title":{"rendered":"A Plantsman’s Nursery – Holden Clough"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Heuchera\"<\/a>
\n\"Heuchera\"<\/a><\/p>\n

A nursery should grow there own or at least a good proportion of the plants they sell. Well you can’t complain at the sight of these Heuchera growing in Holden a small hamlet near Bolton by Bowland in Lancashire.<\/p>\n

\"Auricula\"<\/a>
\nHolden Clough nursery<\/a> has a great reputation and tradition for alpines that survive the wet local conditions.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately these glowing Auriculas were in a quarantine area having already been sold but awaiting collection. Still with an eagle eye I could look at the special varieties someone else had chosen and consider my needs for the next visit. (I got a 10% off voucher for registering for the newsletter that I can use with my next purchases.)<\/p>\n

\"Heuchera\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I was impressed with the amount of bark chippings used to mulch and trim the pots. At check out I was told is saved the staff weeding but that in this location watering was no real problem due to the amount of rain.
\nThinking about grit or chippings I wondered if the former compacted the soil more than the chippings and I think I will run some tests when I get home.<\/p>\n

\"Passion<\/a><\/p>\n

For 95 years the nursery has nestled in a charming hillside spot growing alpines and it is still going strong! Now they not only grow alpines, but also a larger range of plants including many new and unusual perennials.
\nThe one drawback was that the new young team are keen to show their plans for site development which include a tearoom. Welcome though tea may be they could leave that to the ubiquitous garden centres and keep the nursery focus.<\/p>\n

\"Heucherella\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Photo above is of Heucherella Tapestry a hybrid between Heucheras and Tiarellas with many of the best qualities of both parents. This and a limited display of plants in their own small garden area show how and where a good plant can grow.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Compared with my visit on the same day to my local Garden Centre\u00a0<\/a> the range of plants at Holden Clough just what I wanted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nurseries that specialise and grow there own beat garden centres with pantechnicons delivering foreign grown plant in massive car parks. Well you can’t complain at the sight of these Heuchera and other plants growing in Holden a small hamlet near Bolton by Bowland in Lancashire with its own plantsmans nursery as the main employer in the hamlet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[244,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden-visits","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13191"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21490,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13191\/revisions\/21490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}