Creating Beautiful Borders

We welcome back Laura Willgoss, who, together with her husband, runs a small independent nursery and garden housed within the old redbrick walls of a former kitchen garden, nestled in the beautiful Shropshire Hills.

They started the nursery as specialist growers of hardy perennial violas, but their passion for plants has always extended beyond this to encompass a wide range of flowering perennials and grasses. They offer an ever expanding plant list of exciting new perennial introductions and longstanding favourites. The garden here showcases these wonderful plants in exuberantly planted borders. The garden also functions as their stock beds from which they propagate. It is also where they continually test the garden worthiness of the plants they sell.

In the rapidly changing climate, understanding first hand which plants are coping with stress best is hugely valuable, as is growing their plants in an environmentally sustainable way. As 95% of their stock is propagated on site from seed, cuttings and divisions, there are no air miles involved in the production of their plants. Their plants are also grown without the use of herbicides and pesticides and they grow all their perennial stock in peat free compost.