Grange Plant Centre with Abi & Tom

🌷🌷🌷TOMORROW SUNDAY 11th AUGUST🌷🌷🌷 The weather looks set to be amazing! As well as our beautiful nursery garden to explore there will be behind the scenes access, tours, demonstrations and plenty of tea and cake to be enjoyed ☕️ 🍰 🌺

All entrance money goes direct to the National Garden Scheme supporting many national charities while the pop up tea and cake cafe is raising money for St Mary’s Hospice in Ulverston 🌺🌺🌺

Our dahlias are now in the garden shop. We grew a large number of these last year in our own garden nursery at Halecat and we were thrilled with how well they did. If you get them now the dried tubers can be potted and kept somewhere frost free until they start shooting later in the season. Once things begin to really warm up you can root cuttings taken from the new shoots or just leave them be and once rooted through the established plants can go out into the garden. Rich luxuriously coloured colours, the hardest part is choosing! Prices start at £3.79

Our Scottish seed potatoes are now in! first earlies, second earlies and mouth watering main crop varieties to whet your appetite. Many work well in large pots If you’re lacking space to grow them in the ground. All varieties are £3.60 per kilo and you can pick and mix as much as you like.

Spring is well and truly in the air with our extensive selection of early flowering spring bulbs potted up by our team last autumn. The vast majority once planted in your garden will spread and begin to bulk up over time. If you need any advice on what to use where then please ask as we’re more than happy to help! 🌱

Should you be on a quest for some last minute gardening gifts then fear not as the Plant Centre will be open until 5pm on the 23rd!

This Thursday!! Do call in for some festive cheer 🎄🎄🎄

We’re making our Christmas wreaths at the shop and have a great selection to choose from, we can also make up your own bespoke arrangement. Prices start from £13 for a simple Holly wreath to more elaborate decorated blue spruce. Whilst we’re on the subject we also make up memorial holly pots and have plenty of quirky ideas for outdoor festive pots to grace your doorstep or windowsill 🎄🍁🌿🪴

Hope to see you at one of our later open evenings in December where you can enjoy complimentary warming mulled wine or delicious festive punch accompanied by some delicious home-made mince pies. The shop is full of imaginative gift ideas and we genuinely think there's something for everyone and every age. The lights outside this year are looking lovely and this is a chance to enjoy them when they're at their sparkling best!

With some dry, cooler days heading into next week now’s the time to embrace all that spring bulbs can add to your garden borders, pots and window boxes. We still have plenty of gorgeous, richly coloured Tulips, Daffodils ranging from the dainty to the largest cultivars. We also have excellent bulbs that will naturalise and do their own thing in long grass and wilder areas including some stunning coloured Camassia and Alliums. All our bulbs are available loose and much like the sweet shops of old you can pick and choose to your hearts content (just don’t chew on any when you get home)

One of our favourite hardy exotics, is this beautiful Schefflera taiwaniana it’s one of those plants that despite the inclement weather can transport you to somewhere warmer and slightly more exotic… well we like to think so, even in Cumbria!
Another lovely example is Fatsia polycarpa ‘Green Fingers’ with its exquisite, deeply lobed leaves and for some variegated pizazz there’s it’s more exuberant cousin Fatsia japonica ‘Spiders Web’ all three are great in pots or in the ground, use them at home in a shady corner where you need evergreens to make the space more inviting particularly during the depths of winter, all three are available from the shop 🌱

As we head Into the final throws of the summer season the Plant Centre has a wide selection of hardy outdoor bedding plants as well as evergreen shrubs of various sizes to create some fabulous Winter displays, especially if you’re wanting to plant up an existing container be it a hanging basket, trough, plant pot or re-purposed dolly tub….!
If you need any advice we’re all here to help and point you in the right direction, even if that’s helping you select the right compost from out range of peat-free growing mediums made by Melcourt and of course don’t forget you can include some spring flowering bulbs in your planted up creations and we’ve loads to whet your appetite….

Ever since Abi & Tom took over the Plant Centre in Grange we’ve loved having the opportunity to fill the indoor shop area with a wide range of indoor plants and despite not having that much space?!
With all of our lovely team we always seem to manage to squeeze everything in and display it all with a pinch of fun and creativity. As we approach the autumn the winter juggle begins and that also includes making room for our festive winter gifts. To make room we’ve discounted our largest uk grown houseplants by 30% so for those of you who might be looking for some more soul nourishing greenery in your kitchen, study, bedroom or living room, might be worth popping down to have a look…🪴🌱

Our outdoor pots have always been eclectic and the latest ranges include some contemporary designs with simple lines and mottled glazes that range considerably in size making them ideal for a whole plethora of planting options from small alpines to Japanese Maples. We can plant these up for you or guide you on what might work well including bulbs to think about for the spring and closer to home winter flowering annuals to provide you with colour and interest throughout the coming months.

Our spring flowering bulbs are now in with everything loose so you can pick and choose how many of a particular bulb you’d like!
We have a great range of Tulips from the subtle rockery varieties through to grandiose multi-headed beauties. As well as Tulips you’ll find Crocus, Camassia, Muscari, Hyacinths, Fritillaria, Snowdrops, Anemones and many more…..and of course our usual gathering of Daffodils ranging from the dainty to the boldest classic varieties 🌹💐🌷🌸

Pretty windows for the summer holidays.

And inside, lots of lovely plants and gifts to say ‘Thank you’ to wonderful teachers as term comes to an end.

Proud to help Grange look lovely by making pots, baskets and troughs up for superb local
businesses and the Town Council.

Hazelmere Grange - light and natural under the arcade.

Thyme Out - hot planting to suit their Mediterranean menu

Butterfingers - sheltered pots

Victoria Hall - bonkers and her friendly

We love our pots which hopefully inspire your gardening.

Super quality Franchi seeds.

Great value for money with generous helpings of seeds.

Available at both our locations.