Herbalicious - Flowers

Herbalicious - Roses

Everyone loves being in a beautiful garden. However, most of us just don't have the time to learn everything you need to know to be a successful gardener. It is really easy to make mistakes - buying the wrong plants, putting them in the wrong place and not knowing how to care for them. That is what we help you with at Shoot. We tell you what you can plant, where you can put it, and how best to care for it so it will thrive in your garden. We even send you helpful email reminders each month. Our vision is to inspire and empower all gardeners to create the garden of their dreams

Of most interest, perhaps, are those rare plants that are both beautiful and seldom seen, due to their being difficult to propagate, or, in need of a particular expertise to ensure some success, add to these, those plants which are only appreciated by the cognoscenti, often simply because they don't suit a wholesalers production system, so are never seen in garden centres and you have the type of plants for which the word rare, might be most appropriate. It's fun to have something, few, if anyone else may have, nurturing a rarity will offer great satisfaction and can only help develop your gardening skills and reputation! If you do though go against all your instincts to preserve its rarity and pass it on, you will be following the example of some of the most prominent 'plantsmen' (plantspeople) in the country.

Scent allows a plant to expend energy in producing more flowers, without the need to attract by size alone. So evergreens are rarely known for flowers. Their value in gardens comes about due to their form, the shape and gravitas that they give to a planting, we should remember though, that like pieces of new modernist art the space around them is as important as they themselves! Let's not crowd them, allow space so they can develop and be admired, of course one can plant more than one of a kind if the desire is to have an immediate effect, but plan to remove the excess in good time.

When it comes to describing our plants that very enthusiasm tends to send most of us in to hyperbole, sometimes verging on rapture. Hardiness is one area. Various formula exist to categorise plants to suggest how likely they are to survive winter, but so many variables exist. Here in the nursery we tend to go by practical experience based on good garden practice and are always happy to give specific advice if you can furnish us with some detail of your proposed site.