Nurseries confirmed for 2012:

Architectural Impact 
Artisan Plant Supports 

Audacious Herbaceous
 
Bouts Violas 
Brighter Blooms 
Bryn Sguboriau Cottage 
ChickenStreet 
Chris Cooke Plants  
Chris Pattison    
Conquest Plants Nursery 
Cotswold Garden Flowers
 
The Cottage Herbery
 
Edulis 
Field Food 
Field House Nursery
 
Garden Living 
Green's Leaves 
Hall Farm Nursery
 
      
Heritage Fruit Tree Co.

Hillview Hardy Plants 
Holden Clough Nursery
 
Hooksgreen Herbs
 
John Gillies 
K & S Nursery   
Mary Green 
Mayfields Plants
 
Packhorse Farm Nursery  
Penmere Plants
 
Plantagogo
 
PlantWild  

Pottertons Nursery 
Out of the Common Way  
Roseland House 
ShadyPlants.com 
Slack Top Nurseries 
Sound Garden Design 
SpecialPerennials.com 
Springwell 
Stonyford Cottage Nursery
 
Terrapot 
Tissington Nursery 
Wheelwright's Cottage Plants  
The Wild Flower Patch  
Woodfield Nursery 
Woodland Barn Nurseries

 

SpecialPerennials.com

SpecialPerennials.com is a small nursery specialising in garden worthy herbaceous perennials.  We are one half of the team that organises of Plant Hunters' Fairs  - so if we blow our own trumpets don't be surprised!

We hold the National Collections of Helenium and Centaurea and we always bring more varieties of these than you are likely ever to see anywhere else. 

For a small nursery (more accurately a micro-nursery) we have an incredible range of home-grown plants including large collections of Hemerocallis (200+ varieties), Geum, and our other passion,  Phlox as well as many other interesting and beautiful plants. Phlox are rarely offered by nurseries these days except a limited range of mass-propagated types. We are collecting together a lot of old or local varieties and growing these at our garden. Come along to a fair in spring and be treated to a great choice of Phlox.

All our plants are hard grown in the open as we think this gives a better plant to establish in you garden. We don't force things on in polytunnels and greenhouses.

You can order plants to be brought to an event at no extra charge and it is always advisable to ring or email to ask us to bring the plants you want as we can't bring all full range to every event..

Plants are also available by mail order. Click here for a printable version of our  plant list but we really recommend visiting our website for a fully illustrated catalogue plus lots of colourful information in our Garden Diary.

We love giving talks to clubs and societies and each year we add new talks to our range .  Click here for our talks leaflet.

Our garden is open for the NGS in 2012 plus some special events as well. For details of opening times click here. We specialise in using perennials to attract bees, butterflies and other beneficial insects.

You will meet Martin and Janet at the following events in 2012:

Ness Botanic Gardens 25 Mar

Consall Hall  31 Mar

The Dorothy Clive Garden 8 / 9 Apr 

Bodenham Arboretum 14 Apr

National Memorial Arboretum 15 Apr

Bramall Hall 22 Apr

Norton Priory 29 Apr 

Weston Park 6 / 7 May

The National Memorial Arboretum 26 May

Adlington Hall 27 May

Hodnet Hall 3 / 4 Jun 

Stonyford Cottage Gardens 5 Jun

The National Memorial Arboretum 29 Jul

The Dorothy Clive Gardens 26 / 27 Aug

Bodenham Arboretum 1 Sep

Ness Botanic Gardens 2 Sep

Sugnall Hall 16 Sep

Details:

Janet & Martin Blow
Yew Tree House, Hall Lane
Hankelow
Crewe
Cheshire, CW3 0JB
Phone: 01270 811443 
Mobile: 0771 699 0695

email: plants@specialperennials.com
Website: www.specialperennials.com 
Twitter: @helenium_uk


With over 1000 varieties of perennials growing in our garden we have a great range of plants to bring to events. 


Phlox and Achillea are two more specialities of ours 


Perennials for late colour feature strongly in our range throughout the year. This is one of our October borders.


We specialise and offer advice in planting to attract bees, butterflies and other beneficial insects.


Janet and Martin Blow of SpecialPerennials.com


Heleniums from our National Collection.


Unusual and hard-to-find Centaurea from our newly awarded National Collection


Monarda (Bee Balm, Bergamot) are another passion of ours - we grow over 30 varieties.


Our Heleniums as part of the Silver Medal winning Plant Heritage display at RHS Tatton 2009


A great range of Day Lilies on offer on the SpecialPerennials stall at Bodenham Arboretum


Specialist growers of Hemerocallis and Heleniums at our garden nursery in Cheshire.


Visit our garden - open for the NGS


Photographs © SpecialPerennials.com

 

 

 

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