A very happy and prosperous 2026 to all our friends and visitors who’ve supported us through the years here at Woodlands. Last year was a challenge at times but the autumn rains really gave us a lovely late show. Today, though, it is snowing and we have finally completed and published the Plant Catalogue and, as usual, there are more than a few interesting goodies in it! Hope you enjoy browsing and we hope to here from you soon and, remember, our first open day is February 15th.

Ann and Bob

After a hot, dry challenging summer the autumn rains came and the September garden started to look really beautiful. We are now starting to prepare for next year and already have some exciting new plants to be added to the catalogue so keep an eye out for updates.

We are pleased to announce that we’ve just had our best ever year for funds raised for the NGS and we’d like to thank all our lovely visitors for taking the time to come and see us here at Woodlands. Next year’s open days have just been added to this website and we hope to see some of you then.

We are pleased to announce that Bob is much better and we are looking forward to our summer openings, commencing June 15th. Our crevice garden has come on leaps and bounds and full of flower power. It needs to be seen though so we look forward to welcoming you soon.

Unfortunately, due to a little health scare for Bob, we haven’t been able to attend any plant fairs and apologise to any who have been disappointed. However we are still holding our NGS open days here at Woodlands and maintaining our plant orders. We are very grateful to everyone who have been so understanding.

The good news is that Bob is slowly recovering and working on light duties in the garden.

Although our official open days have finished for the year, we are still pleased to welcome occasional visitors. You will see that, far from setting up shop, we are usually extremely busy with general maintenance and, very often, starting new projects around the garden. This winter we plan to make some changes to the nursery area and re-vamp several of the beds that we feel could be improved. Of course we will be watching the new crevice garden, which has attracted so much attention, to see how the newly planted alpines cope with their first British winter. Also we hope to make a few new additions to the catalogue and the new list should be available early in 2025.

Thanks to everyone who’ve supported us this year, without you it would be very lonely!

Ann & Bob

Our new format plant catalogue is available on the Catalogue page.