Sue and Dave Beesley are delighted to welcome you to Bluebell Cottage Gardens and Nursery.
| The gardens and nursery are now closed for the winter, re-opening mid-March 2012. Events for 2012 are now on the website - click 'Events' on the right for details. Plant list to follow soon... |
Bluebell Cottage Gardens and Nursery are set in gorgeous Cheshire countryside a few miles south of Warrington. Bluebell Cottage Nursery (was known as Lodge Lane Nursery) is an RHS partner nursery and specialises in hardy herbaceous perennials, with a typical stock of over 1000 varieties. The adjacent 1.5 acre cottage garden is open to the public from the late March to the end of September
Together with the 2 acre wildflower meadow and 2 acre bluebell woods, the gardens offer an ideal half day out for garden lovers and non-gardeners alike. Refreshments are available in the nursery and there is plenty of seating throughout the gardens.
Horticultural events are held throughout the year in association with the RHS, including photography, painting and propagation workshops. Sue is a regular speaker at horticultural and social groups around the north west.
We welcome group bookings and provide a package of access, refreshments and guided tours to suit. For more information, select a link from the menu on the right, send an email or call 01928 713718.
Sue keeps a regular behind-the-scenes blog, click here for the latest entryPhilosophy and the art of apple tree pruningWednesday, December 28, 2011
Present me with an apple tree in need of pruning and I become a touch philosophical. I could write a book about pruning a single tree - not so much about the technical how-tos of the pruning itself but about the whys and wherefores. The vexed question of how much to direct the tree by pruning and how much to let it be the tree it wants to be. The temptation to satisfy my aesthetic sense and remove a wayward branch, set against the tree's innate instinct to grow as it sees fit. Does the tree know best? Whether to let a fat bud burst into flower, or whether to sacrifice it in favour of its better placed neighbours. Do I know better? The impossibility of capturing an entire, graceful, rounded tree on a small, flat, two-dimensional photograph. How the palest grey branches turn black when viewed against a near-white winter sky. The ladybirds sheltering in the bark crevices, the robin perched on a bouncing twig two feet away, black-eyed and hopeful. |