Nursery beginnings

Welcome to Freckles and Flora, this is a very exciting time for me as I start my small business, propagating and growing a wide range of plants for mail order, my business is very much in its infancy so all support is greatly appreciated! A little about myself; I am a thirty year old horticulturalist and nursery woman from North Yorkshire passionate about plants with a real love for umbels and asters in particular. I have trained under the team at Sarah Raven’s Perchill garden and the Beth Chatto Gardens which honed my planty obsession into the production and propagation side of horticulture.

I grow a large proportion of plants from seeds, cuttings and divisions, from the stock beds I have created. All my plants are peat free from the very start of germination through to the final product you recieve. I garden mainly on clay but I am experimenting with gravel and sand beds, meaning I grow different plants suited to a range of conditions. This year will see a range of perennials some more commonly in cultivation than others and a number of interesting annuals, both hardy and half hardy.