Buckland Nurseries

Buckland Nurseries was established as a family run garden centre business over 150 years ago. 

The business was founded by Thomas Hogg in 1865 and has continued through six generations of the Hogg family into the hands of David and Linda Hogg (pictured alongside). 

Buckland Nurseries stocks a wide range of perennials, trees, shrubs, bedding plants, roses, herbs, garden sundries, tools, turf, seeds, paving and gravels and the friendly team looks forward to giving you a lovely welcome when you next visit their traditional Garden Centre. 

Recovery mode in the garden after the heat of summer – September gardening notes :

After the challenges of this summer, with regular heatwaves and so little rain, the cooler (and hopefully wetter) days of early autumn will be welcome in the garden.

– Parched soils will benefit from mulching. Your own well-rotted compost spread around beds, borders, young hedging and trees will help enormously to loosen up compacted and dry ground. Alternatively, spread around mushroom compost, which is particularly good for improving humus and texture, or horse manure. Composted bark will help ericaceous plants such as azaleas, ferns, pieris and heathers. Even without digging in, worms will do a marvellous job in breaking down the soil using any mulch.

– Use September wisely to remove and replace any plants that have failed during the summer. Herbaceous perennials can be divided now: this will re-invigorate what is left and also give you extras to spread around the garden. Most bedding plants are by now looking tired, however much watering and feeding you have managed to give them. Autumn bedding can now provide a fresh replacement, safe in the knowledge that they will benefit from the cooler conditions in the latter part of the year. Violas, pansies and cyclamen are often the mainstay, with calluna heathers, hebes and ivy providing reliable autumn colour.

– As soon as the ground is workable, dig in some spring bulbs. There’s plenty of varieties and colours to suit all tastes. Plant in groups for maximum impact.

– After so little rain during the summer, check water is free-running into water butts;  gutters and downpipes need to be cleared of debris and leaves.

– It hasn’t been a bumper year for most allotment crops, so enjoy any harvest that you have. Let’s hope for a bumper year in 2027!

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David Hogg
Buckland Nurseries