A Proper Sort Of Nursery!

Yesterday three of us from the Grapes Hill Community Garden Group went to Reads Nursery at Hales Hall, near Loddon to look at fruit trees, which we need to buy for the garden.

The nursey is superb - lots of varieties of tree, including local varieties of apples and the national collection of fig trees. The staff are very helpful and knowledgeable too. As if this isn't enough, the nursery's location next to Hales Hall and its beautiful thatched barn is great too.

We will return late next week to make our purchases, including apples, pears, an apricot, cherries, a fig, a medlar, a quince and some soft fruit bushes and canes.

Fig tree

A proper sort of nursery like Reads is a real antidote to many garden centres, which sell fewer and fewer plants and seem to be just plant supermarkets. You can find more good nurseries on the Norfolk Nursery Network website. I will certainly try to visit more of them during the year.