St Bridget Nurseries Blog

Thu 23 Jul 2015

Kissing It Better

St Bridget Nurseries was pleased to support the charity Kissing It Better.  Kissing it Better is about sharing simple healthcare ideas. It is also about harnessing the energy of the most dynamic groups in a local community and inviting them to use their specialist skills to make a difference to the care of patients and their […]

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Wed 8 Jul 2015

Sensory Garden - Sight

For those of us lucky to have good eye sight we really should enjoy the rainbow of colours that nature provides us for our gardens. Working with our charity of the year, Devon In Sight, we really are learning just how valuable our senses are and how to maximise the use of the senses we […]

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Thu 25 Jun 2015

School visit

Last week we welcomed some very important people to St Bridget Nurseries on a school visit. Year one from St Peter’s School in Lympstone came on a school visit to see behind the scenes and discover how we grow plants as part of their science work. The pupils included our fifth generation Caitlin whose great-great-grandparents founded […]

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Thu 18 Jun 2015

In the press

Thank you to the lovely team at Devon’s Country Gardener Magazine for a wonderful write up on our 90th anniversary. Free copies of the pubication are available from both our garden centres or you can read the online version here (flip to page 32).  

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Wed 10 Jun 2015

Plants for Bees

Thank you to Dani Furlong for a brilliant question sent to our plant doctor today. Dani asked, “What plants can I put in pots to attract bees?”. We answered as follows: There are numerous plants for bees you could plant in pots but the balance you may have issue with is between plants for bees and […]

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Sun 7 Jun 2015

Gardening rant

Well this weekend has been beautiful and we know many of you have spent the weekend gardening. If, however, you are daunted by the word gardening and think of it as hard work then step this way to our little summer gardening rant… “Gardening” is for everyone. The benefits of gardening are proven – need we […]

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Fri 5 Jun 2015

Brightening up Topsham Train Station

Congratulations to a small group of Topsham residents who have volunteered to form a group responsible for the plants on the platform of Topsham train station. The ladies then got a group of volunteers from Plymouth University to help weed the area and then prepare the planters for their new plants – kindly donated by […]

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Thu 21 May 2015

How to be a show garden winner!

News just in – we’re remaining champions at the Devon County Show – a large gold medal and the winner of the Midmay-White Perpetual Challenge Trophy for the best exhibit in the Flower and Garden Show. Well done to the team involved Gary, Rob and Tammy.     Above is Gary’s masterpiece – letters and […]

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Wed 20 May 2015

How to create a show garden - day two

Well we’ve just spent another 9 hours out at the Westpoint show ground completing our display. It’s hard to know where the time goes as at first glance we had most plants in place at the end of last night but believe me, no time was wasted! Our first job was to moss around visible […]

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Tue 19 May 2015

How we create a show garden

Today was our first full day setting up our trade stand at The Devon County Show. But months of planning have taken place before now. Gary on the nursery has been gathering and caring for hundreds of plants in the lead up to the show and Rob has been digging up large specimen shrubs and […]

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