Niwaki S-Type Hori Hori
Everyone’s favourite weeding and planting tool, with a razor sharp, stainless steel knife-grade blade, serrated down one side for roots and what-nots, and a chunky beech wood handle for grip….
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Irrigation For Your Garden
Welcome To The Irrigation Station Welcome to our irrigation station. Here, we have all the essentials you need to build a complete system, extend one, or to repair and replenish your existing set up. We have been using this system of components on our nursery and installing them for our customers for over 20 years….
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Linda’s ‘Niwaki’ Production Zone
Welcome to Linda’s ‘Niwaki production zone’. Filmed by our friends, HDmoments, Linda is seen here clipping, Ilex crenata ‘Niwaki’ and among some of her other favourites, Myrtus apiculata, Pinus sylvestris and Taxus cuspidata….
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The Landscape Show 2021
The Landscape Show 2021 A New Adventure for 2021 Last month Guy and Flo travelled northwards to the NEC Birmingham for the Landscape Show 2021. This was their first time back since 2017 so they were really looking forward to catching up with old friends and seeing what was new. This was a great opportunity…
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‘Niwaki Book Pruning, Training, and Shaping Trees the Japanese Way’ by Jake Hobson
Jake Hobson draws upon years of experience with Japanese gardens and landscaping. He spent a year at a nursery in Osaka, and in 2004 started his own business-Niwaki, Japanese Garden Tools. A keen observer of the artistry of gardens, Jake received his bachelor’s degree in sculpture….
View this productJapanese Garden Design
Japanese Garden Design Our Concept of fusion Our concept of a Japanese Garden Design is a fusion of form, texture, colour and contrast. We like to bring together plants which are intrinsically synonymous with Japanese aesthetics and plants which are most definitely not, but do by their habit and shaping (topiarising), compliment each other brilliantly….
View this pagePest & Disease Guide 2
Advice For Home Gardeners Whether your favourite plants are outside or inside they can, unfortunately, easily pick up unwanted pests and disease despite your best efforts. Our guide introduces you to the more common UK pests and how to treat them. It’s by no means definitive, and a wealth of useful information can also be…
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The White Glossary
‘The White Glossary’ For the curious and hungry-for-knowledge, the glossary is stuffed with things you need to know to become a gardener. We make a point to weave, thread and insinuate horticultural, meteorological, botanical, geological and evolutionary knowledge through everything we say, write and do. For us this is as much an essential professional horticultural…
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Butia capitata
A remarkably frost hardy palm tree from Argentina with huge blue leaves. Someone once described it as looking like an enormous beautiful blue sea anemone. Please contact us for stock availability and sizes.
Hardiness level Amber
Hakonechloa macra
A graceful little grass that – unusually – likes heavy soil and a bit of shade. Plant it under your trees. Very green but going orangey red in autumn to brown in winter. 2ft x 2ft. Please contact us for stock availability and size.
Hardiness level Green