Welcome to the 2010 season following a winter of extremes.

As the floods gave way to ice and snow all land based industries throughout the Lake District and North West struggled to keep to any production schedules.

The most extreme winter has been a test of hardiness and testimony to our aim of producing top quality grasses to extend the garden and landscape interest throughout the winter. En-masse the late season grasses stood fantastically throughout. Here in the nursery by systematically cutting back our stock grasses and moving them under cover ongoing propagation has continued.

The Design and Installation service has also struggled with schedules, however, with applied mitigations involving scaffolding and sheeting over workspaces and the continued use of quality materials and plant stock we look forward to seeing the spring cheer of the winter external works.

For 2010 an indoor installation project in association with BroadwayMalyan Architectural services and Stoke Sixth Form College. The college, still in construction, offering an Atrium planting of specimen timber bamboo incorporating a fully automated irrigation/fertigation system will provide both staff and students with a healthy and comfortable working environment.

Bamboo for interior use? Bamboo are particularly efficient in removing impurities from the air along with raising humidity levels it is therefore a plant of choice, where space permits, for air conditioned buildings.

We were delighted to receive the 2009 Lakeland Rose & Garden Show Challenge Cup along with our Gold Award for an outstanding horticultural display we look forward to returning in July 2010

And finally thank you to those designers who have placed orders for their 2010 RHS show gardens.

Architectural Grasses - Care & Maintenance

We receive many calls for help regarding care & maintenance of grasses therefore we list below a few pointers to keep your plants looking and feeling good.

Warm Season & Non Evergreen Grasses
Regardless of their height, may be left until the late winter gales have destroyed the architectural beauty of the foliage and flowers, it is now before new growth begins March-April with us that each plant can be gathered up in gloved hands and cut back close to the ground, or back to a tussock. Follow with a general fertilizer application.

Evergreen Grasses
During winter evergreen grasses can look slightly dishevelled leaf tips can desiccate and tatter, how bad this is will determine how far to cut back. Early spring tidy plant by removing damaged leaf area only. Trim using sharp shears/scissors; try to steeply angle the cuts to resemble a more natural look. With evergreens the closer you need to trim to a tussock the slower the recovery, this can be helped by applying a general fertilizer.

Pick up the phone to make your appointment to see our quality plants 01229 774454 or drop us an email: pauline@wildlyrural.com

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