Hairy team

Morning all,

Christmas is creeping up quickly, it's Secret Santa on Monday, I must get out and to do my gift shopping. In the light of high covid rates and the appearance of the new variant, we opted for an in-house socially distanced gathering in despatch, which is big and airy. Jacket potatoes and a selection of stews is the order of the day, followed up with mince pies and brownies, and all is, I believe, organised and ready to roll. Our decorating expert Danny is currently erecting a light display to rival any Mickey Mouse grotto and the heaters will be turned up to max. What excitement there is in store for us all.

The first set of replacement printing screens arrived this week, along with some slower drying ink and thinners, and yesterday I bit the bullet and had a go with them. It's not a job I used to look forward too, as it was fraught with impending disaster. Large volumes of permanent quick drying thick black ink and clumsy old folk are never a comfortable mix. Last time I managed to relegate a perfectly nice old sweatshirt to decorating duties within minutes of starting to 'help out'.

Thankfully one disastrous session actually prompted new investigations and some major improvements. Conversations with experts prompted a change of ink, some tweaks in technique and the production of the new set of screens The upshot of it all was a relatively stress free and very productive session, of fairly mess free printing,. Quality and consistency of print improved and output rate more than doubled. Who says you can't teach an old dog and all that. Ok, so I won't remember tomorrow how we did it, but luckily with a few younger minds about someone will remind me. Just another 9,500 slats to go, no worries.

With confidence in screen printing revived, this week I sent off our old printing screens for the wooden POS boards for re- hanging. A refresh of the wording on some of them to bring them up to date, and we will see a fresh start to everyone's displays in the New Year, when you receive your first orders. It might mean getting right into the printing groove very early in the year, but now we are so much better at it I'm sure it will be fine.

I finalised the staff kit range early in the week and put out a display of the stuff on offer so everyone can make their own decision on what they would like to adorn themselves in. It was surprisingly tricky selecting for the variety of weather conditions, peoples individual dress styles and jobs we have to endure on the nursery, and at the same time sourcing only sustainable items, When buying in quite big quantities the temptation is to go cheap and cheerful, but I eventually bit the bullet and went for the right kit, not based solely on price. Some of the designs look really sharp, so I think we will get more for our money than just organic or recycled, time will tell. With a choice of 22 items, some in a choice of colours, it is going to be quite a mash up of looks, but being a member of an exciting team shouldn't stop you from standing out.

Despite the covid scares we squeezed in a bit of socialised this week, pub quiz with fab food Monday and a great blues gig on Thursday. Oli Brown at the cosy Farnham Maltings venue was sensational and luckily not too crowded. Such an astonishing talent on guitar, with a great voice and very, very loud. It was only his bands second gig of the year and the last, such was the disruption caused by the chaos of the last 20 months, but he was so excited to be there doing his thing, it was infectious (but in a good way!).

Autumn wooden box collections are now just about done

Most of our wooden trays have now been collected up, but if you have a collection of trays ready to go, please do drop us an email and we will call in a pick them up as soon as we are in your area. At a replacement cost now in excess of £10 a box now, we can't afford to lose too many. Just been informed of another timber price rise, so definitely need them back!

Availability list highlights

Things are getting really very quiet now and most plants are settling into their winter rest. There are still a few stars shining out there, but fewer each week.

The long flowering Cyclamen coum varieties are coming along with flowers opening already. This coum series we are growing, flowers continuously from September to April given reasonable winter conditions, it is really hardy although the number of flowers open at any one time is more subtle and modest than some of the very showy modern and less hardy pot cyclamen. A favourite of ours,

Some of the Helleborus niger are in bud and flower, Christmas has come early. Helleborus orientalis are looking strong with the occasional bud showing. A slightly enlarged range from us this year with the introduction of the Pretty Ellen range of a red, white and a pink.

Take care out there, from all at Kirton Farm Nurseries

Hairy charging

Morning all,

Getting some nice results now from our winter endeavours which is great for feeling like we are making progress again rather than just juggling endless demand. I was surprised how exciting it was to get the new EV charging station wired up and running. We have had the trench dug and concrete pad prepared for ages, just waiting for the kit and installer to arrive, which they all did on Tuesday. By lunchtime we were up and running with a system that more than surpassed my expectations. It is a Zappi smart charger so it doesn't just charge up the vehicles, it manages itself over the Wifi and selects when and how to do the charging. We have it set so that it only charges when the wind turbines are generating more than we are consuming and it constantly adjusts the charge it uses to match the amount being exported. This means the effective cost of charging comes down from about 18p/unit if we used imported power to 5p which is what we get paid for exporting it. That brings to fuel cost down to just over 1p a mile, once we get our car delivered. Hopefully it won't be too long before we can get our first delivery van plugged in as well, although that might be a year or two yet. The electrician has an electric van so we were able to test charge that for a while just to make sure it all worked ok. An app on the phone gives us real time data and records of all power imported from our site, exported and used for charging, so we can see what's going on whereever we are. Can't stop checking it out now! Luckily it's been fairly breezy over the last few days so the graph looks pretty good at the moment, even though I know in reality that the year as a whole has been the lowest turbine output since the turbines went up 10 years ago.

We have got through all our end of season wooden tray drying and cleaning and the barn is full of pallets of neatly stacked trays, very satisfying. Now we are getting stuck into the construction of the new tray stock. As demand has increased and some of the old boxes bite the dust, we are having to replenish supplies in a fairly major way. The huge increases in timber prices and difficulties in getting the components printed and constructed has meant we have had to bring the job in-house. It's a monster amount of work but at least at this time of year we have a few of the team more available to get it done. We had a problem with the screen printing last week but a new set of screens and fresh supplies of ink should see us back into full production again. It gets a bit scary when I think about 4,000 new boxes being made at about £10 per box, but because we started some in the summer we are nearly halfway through, so we will soon be on the easy slide down to completion. The propagation tunnel had its climate control computer repaired and reset on Monday and a heater fan repaired on Wednesday, so fingers crossed it will hold out through the cold weather keeping all the microprop crops toasty, although it sounds like the whole system may be close to the end of its serviceable life. Might be time to check out the air source heat pumps suitable for the job.

The tunnels are looking more organised with each passing week, as the rest of the team crack on with tidying and top dressing the pots and cutting the dormant plants back. It's surprising how much growth is still going on despite the cooler weather, I think winter has still to really get a grip on things.

Nursery Christmas lights are on already around the mess room entrance, anything to brighten up a December day and alleviate my guilt at sitting in a comparatively warm office while everyone else wraps up and gets going in the unheated net- sided tunnels. Now where are those crumpets?

Autumn wooden box collections are now just about done

Most of our wooden trays have now been collected up, but if you have a collection of trays ready to go, please do drop us an email and we will call in a pick them up as soon as we are in your area. At a replacement cost now in excess of £10 a box now, we can't afford to lose too many. Just been informed of another timber price rise, so definitely need them back! 

Availability list highlights

Things are getting really quiet now and most plants are settling into their winter rest. There are still a few stars shining out there, but fewer each week.

The long flowering Cyclamen coum varieties are coming along with flowers opening already. This coum series we are growing, flowers continuously from September to April given reasonable winter conditions, it is really hardy although the number of flowers open at any one time is more subtle and modest than some of the very showy modern and less hardy pot cyclamen. A favourite of ours,

Some of the Helleborus niger are in bud and flower, Christmas has come. Helleborus orientalis are looking strong with the occasional bud showing. A slightly enlarged range from us this year with the introduction of the Pretty Ellen range of a red, white and a pink.

Take care out there, from all at Kirton Farm Nurseries

Hairy projects

Morning all,

A very productive week, most of it done in the warm, but with a fluffy brain produced by the end of today! Battled my way through the last of the plant orders for next year, a job I started over a month ago. The numbers are mind numbing and the decisions needed endless when you are looking at over 600 lines, multiple deliveries of each and probably ten different suppliers. Then the whole lot has to be juggled onto a label ordering spreadsheet, along with the current stock of plants and left over labels from this season. I stick in a column for this year's sales for each variety, just to add an extra level of thoroughness and complication and then pluck out a number of labels I think we will use. Then there is the final jiggle to make the total number ordered add up to a multiple of 72,000, so that they fit onto the label printing sheet efficiently. What fun. 

Now I can get back to some more fun planning and spending. I only get a very short time frame to get the winter projects ordered and underway and although some have already started like the new vehicle charger, the new van, new electric car, new potting machine and the wooden box production programme, I have a few other bits up my sleeve waiting for the go ahead. The hairy pot plant themed work-wear is coming along, just need to get the next batch of samples ordered. I know lots of people cover this sort of thing, but it adds another whole level of complication when you try to pick out sustainable items to use rather than just the cheapest. 

The irrigation water collection system should take another step forward this winter but I haven't quite decided on the scale yet. I think we will take a steady route into more investment into water storage, which we will have to fund ourselves, rather than spend £90,000 and maybe become eligible for a partial grant. I saw a very interesting bit of water treatment it this week, which I first saw 8 years ago, it should improve our plant health and resistance to disease so reducing the amount of spraying we have to do. I was a bit sceptical originally but after many years use it had proved itself to be very effective on this particular nursery. A good test was when it broke down this summer the diseases returned and once repaired it all settled down again. We don't do a huge amount of spraying but any reduction will be welcome in labour saving and fewer chemicals being needed. This will be another valuable experience we will have picked up from being part of the NBIS scheme which has served us so well over the 25 years or so we have been members, although the best bits are the talking therapy, which I need a lot of, and the pub lunch. I don't get out much. Everyone in the group is still pretty anxious about what lies ahead and the news of the South African new variant is an added worry, but I'm glad to say Caroline and I got our boosters done today so feeling slightly smug. So many ups and downs. Might go for a lie down in a minute just in case I am overcome with weakness and fatigue. That log burner is beckoning.

Autumn wooden box collections are now just about done

Most of our wooden trays have now been collected up, but if you have a collection of trays ready to go, please do drop us an email and we will call in a pick them up as soon as we are in your area. At a replacement cost now in excess of £10 a box now, we can't afford to lose too many. Just been informed of another timber price rise, so definitely need them back! 

Availability list highlights

Things are getting really quiet now and most plants are looking for their winter rest. There are still a few stars shining out there, but fewer each week. The mild weather is keeping things ticking over at the moment but the coming cold snap might slow things up.

The long flowering Cyclamen coum varieties are coming along with flowers opening already. This coum series we are growing, flowers continuously from September to April given reasonable winter conditions, it is really hardy although the number of flowers open at any one time is more subtle and modest than some of the very showy modern & less hardy pot cyclamen. A favourite of ours, Some of the Helleborus niger are in bud and flower already, Christmas has come early. 

Helleborus orientalis are looking strong with the occasional bud showing. A slightly enlarged range from us this year with the introduction of the Pretty Ellen range of a red, white and a pink.

Take care out there, from all at Kirton Farm Nurseries

Hairy winter planning

Morning all,

It already seems like weeks ago that we were away, I'm ready for another break already! Got back into the swing of things fairly quickly and started planning some winter projects which is usually quite exciting if not a bit expensive. We are so busy for 9 months of the year producing and despatching plants that we don't get much time to look at investing to improve things and then we get this short little window to cram in all the planning, spending and installing of anything new. This period is punctuated by holidays, Christmas, winter weather and lower staffing levels, so it does have its additional hurdles to get it all done. Last year we fitted in a luxurious new loo block (by horticultural standards) and heating and lighting systems in despatch and potting to make the cold weather work a bit more bearable and hopefully productive. There was a new 3.5t van to cope with all the extra demand, masses of trench digging, drain making, slab laying, remodelling despatch and updating the despatch work benches, it was all go. A government covid bounce back loan did help a lot with all that work and I was hoping that this winter would be a lot quieter, but things already seem to be hotting up to another active winter. We are printing and constructing over 2,500 new wooden trays so that we have enough stock for the spring rush, the old 7.5t van has to be replaced so we are nice and clean on our emissions and our first electric car should be here in the New Year. I have just ordered a replacement potting machine as our old one has been held together with plywood, screws and cable ties for too long and has been moments away from becoming scrap on several occasions over the last year or two. It has been refurbished a couple of times but there is little on it solid enough to hold a repair now so the time has come.

Then on top of all this there is another couple of sustainable hurdles we wanted to jump. One is to increase the amount of water we collect and put into our irrigation system. We have been building quite a bit of the infrastructure over the last 3 or 4 years by hand digging french drains along the edges of all the production tunnels but we have yet to join everything together to actually collect a significant amount of water. The drains have done a great job in reducing the amount of tunnel flooding we get if there is a torrential downpour, but the investment in time, effort and money to join it all up and build a reservoir/sump, install filters, pumps and pipe-work has just been a step too far. There was funding announced this week for farms and nurseries to help fund this sort of investment but as usual it looks like we will miss out. We would have to spend a minimum of just under £90,000 to et a £35,000 grant which is quite a bit more than I had imagined spending and there would be a lot of rings to jump through to get it, if we were lucky enough to get selected. The grant scheme for smaller investments doesn't fit what we want either, so not much help there. The problem is that the amount of money we would save is minimal for the investment made, but the environmental benefit would be great. We might be better off looking at replacing the oil boilers in the prop tunnels and replacing with air source heat pumps, still expensive but a much better financial and carbon return. Decisions, decisions.

Autumn wooden box collections are now just about done

Most of our wooden trays have now been collected up, but if you have a collection of trays ready to go, please do drop us an email and we will call in a pick them up as soon as we are in your area. At a replacement cost now in excess of £10 a box now, we can't afford to lose too many. Just been informed of another timber price rise, so definitely need them back!

Availability list highlights

Things are getting really quiet now and most plants are looking for their winter rest. There are still a few stars shining out there, but fewer each week. The mild weather is keeping things ticking over at the moment but the coming cold snap might slow things up.

The long flowering Cyclamen coum varieties are coming along with flowers opening already. This coum series we are growing, flowers continuously from September to April given reasonable winter conditions, it is really hardy although the number of flowers open at any one time is more subtle and modest than some of the very showy modern and less hardy pot cyclamen. A favourite of ours,

Some of the Helleborus niger are in bud and flower already, Christmas has come early. Helleborus orientalis are looking strong with the occasional bud showing. A slightly enlarged range from us this year with the introduction of the Pretty Ellen range of a red, white and a pink.

Take care out there, from all at Kirton Farm Nurseries

Hairy return

Morning all,

Back to it after a few days off in sunny St Ives. A lovely break with loads of weather, walking and way too much eating out. Major personal self control required over the next few weeks to try and recover the situation, but well worth it. The increase in taking UK breaks is obviously continuing in Cornwall, we have never seen it so busy in November, even out on the hills the parking was packed out when we usually hardly see a sole. Unfortunately for us a few of our favourite restaurants were closed or on short time opening as they struggled to find staff cover for holidays through the rest of the season. They had been extremely busy over the main season and so just shut up shop for a couple of weeks or longer in their quietest month, so they could all grab a break. I have every sympathy for them and in the end we didn't starve. Glad to say that three new Moomaid ice cream cafes had opened up in the area and we made the most of that! Local ice cream from the village of Zennor just down the road, way too good to pass by un-tasted although a double scoop Shipwrecked nearly finished me off. 

The nursery needless to say survived without us and it looks like lots got done in our absence. Must go away more often. Greg and the team seem to have kept a lid on everything although the list of things to mend seems to have got a bit longer. The house is spotless after being looked after by my mum and the post holiday mountain of washing and ironing is already nearly done after just 24 hrs!

The wind turbines had their annual service last week, with just one hiccup. Looks like one of the generators will have to be replaced shortly. It's not cheap to do but the design is supposed to have been improved for quieter, more efficient operation and a longer life span (this one lasted 10 years), so there are benefits. We had one done before and is does have a marginally better output and so far seems to be running smoother, which should lead to a longer life, touch wood. It will be interesting to see if the current electric wholesale price remains at a higher level that it was 12 months ago, as it would make a big difference to us in a few years time when the turbines have to justify their ongoing maintenance from savings and income alone, without any feed in tariff. I am investigating a few solar panels to add to our energy arsenal as we increasingly turn to electric fuelling for heat and power rather than the alternatives, but it's early days yet.

I will be sending out the updated catalogue and price list as soon as I can get it all together. There will be a 10p per pot rise for next season to try and cover some of our cost increases. I thought a few weeks ago that this was going to be enough, because some of the costs would begin to settle down again after the covid disruptions to world trade, however I must admit to being a bit nervous that this might not happen as fast as I thought it might. With big pressure on wages and labour availability adding to things, we are having to aim at even more efficiency improvements to make it work out right for 2022 and I suspect we are already looking at more rises for 2023. That is a long way off yet but just to let you know the pressures are there, with little scope for many more material cost savings. At the moment 75% of the 2022 price increase will be needed to cover the extra container freight costs for importing the coir pots, which are currently nearly ten time the cost of a year ago! Fingers crossed this will settle down again but it shows no sign of doing so at the moment.

On the bright side, demand is still growing with a healthy list of new sites wanting stock in 2022 so no complaints there. Just need to get the plants grown as efficiently and beautifully as we can.

Autumn wooden box collections are now just about done

Most of our wooden trays have now been collected up, but if you have a collection of trays ready to go, please do drop us an email and we will call in a pick them up as soon as we are in your area. At a replacement cost now in excess of £10 a box now, we can't afford to lose too many. Just been informed of another timber price rise, so definitely need them back!

Availability list highlights

Things are getting quiet now and most plants are looking for their winter rest. There are still a few stars shining out there, but fewer each week. The mild weather is keeping things ticking over at the moment The long flowering Cyclamen coum varieties are coming along with the odd flower opening already. This coum series we are growing, flowers continuously from September to April given reasonable winter conditions, it is really hardy although the number of flowers open at any one time is more subtle and modest than some of the very showy modern and less hardy pot cyclamen. A favourite of ours.

Some of the Helleborus niger varieties are in bud and flower already, Christmas has come early. Helleborus orientalis are looking strong with the occasional bud showing. A slightly enlarged range from us this year with the introduction of the Pretty Ellen range of a red, white and a pink.

Take care out there, from all at Kirton Farm Nurseries

Hairy hols

 Morning all,

An early list this week as I might not be here for a few days, depending on how things turn out. The nursery will still be up and running, but with some younger blood at the helm for a short while. Possibly time for a bit of a reassessment of how we go forwards from where we are and how to keep up the positive momentum, and eat a lot.

There seems to be so much big news about at the moment I am finding it hard to watch sometimes, I am looking forward to some head burying on the beach and overdosing on pasties. What with the budget, Covid scares, COP26, labour shortages, supply chain problems, energy price chaos, general price rises and all the rest, it is hard sometimes to pick up on something a bit more joyful to lighten the load. When you add in a spot of Harry Billinge, the war veteran, visiting the Normandy War memorial a couple of days ago and an episode or two of 'The Repair Shop' and I'm all over the place! Luckily I do have a holiday each day with a tea time online visit to our St Ives beach and a check over of any potential retirement homes that have come on the market. Fantasy can then take me on a bit of a break as I work out what we might do. There was a very exciting one last week, that we are going to have a look at, on a bit of a walk next week, but it is a bit old and has probably too many restrictions on it. Set in 23 acres, with distant sea views to the north and the south, it is an iron age hill fort. Ok so you can't actually live there, but what a fun thing to have. Perhaps I'm on my own on this one! I have done a bit of research and it has bronze age and iron age features and it has never been excavated, hours of fun.

Back to reality and good old nursery life, it's been another hectic week with a little flurry of half-term orders, plus a lot of pot mulching and wooden tray maintenance going on. We are knocking off a few winter site jobs already, the windbreak poplar leaves are mostly down and have been raked up before they block the drains down the sides of the tunnels and the irrigation acid tank has had its fencing upgraded and signage refreshed. Good jobs to get under the belt. I'm almost looking forward to having no income for a few months, just to get a few more of those things out of the way, so we can feel under some level of control again. It seems a long time since I felt even remotely in control of anything. We over did it a bit last winter, with new loo's going in, new electrics and heating in despatch and the potting tunnel, everything took so much longer than expected and was double the cost, plus all the usual winter jobs we had to get through as well. It didn't help that last winter was pre-vaccination and tensions were high with lockdowns and NHS worries. This winter, I'm trying to be a bit more modest in my ambition and hopefully it will be a bit more relaxing and prepare us better for next season. Although covid is still a worry, it is not the untamed beast it was a year ago, and hopefully that situation will continue to improve. We have all our covid secure practices and facilities already in place here so no rushing around trying to make things right, it is already our 'new normal'. How we took for granted those earlier carefree days, I do hope they return at some time before my brain pops.

Autumn wooden box collections are now nearly done

Most of our wooden trays have now been collected up, but if you have a collection of trays ready to go, please do drop us an email and we will call in a pick them up as soon as we are in your area. At a replacement cost now in excess of £10 a box now, we can't afford to lose too many. Just been informed of another timber price rise, so definitely need them back!

Availability list highlights

Things are getting quiet now and most plants are looking for their winter rest. There are still a few stars shining out there, but fewer each week.

The long flowering Cyclamen coum varieties are coming along with the odd flower opening already. This coum series we are growing, flowers continuously from September to April given reasonable winter conditions, it is really hardy although the number of flowers open at any one time is more subtle and modest than some of the very showy modern and less hardy pot cyclamen. A favourite of ours,

Some of the Helleborus niger varieties are in bud and flower already, Christmas has come early. Helleborus orientalis are looking strong with the occasional bud showing. A slightly enlarged range from us this year with the introduction of the Pretty Ellen range of a red, white and a pink.

Take care out there, from all at Kirton Farm Nurseries

Hairy propagation

Morning all,

Just a quick one today. Despite the big jobs for the year mostly out of the way now, there still aren't enough hours in the day. I won't bore you with the details but getting stuck into updating COSSH assessments etc isn't as much fun as it sounds and takes an age to do properly! Now I've only got a few minutes to get this email and list all polished off before I have to rush off and get my flu jab. Booster Covid due at the end of the month and then hopefully I'm nearly set up for the winter. Just the eyes and teeth to rescue and I might make it physically through until the spring, touch wood. Whether the mental capacity will keep up I'm not so sure after another embarrassing evening. Caroline rustled up a fab cauliflower cheese with parsnip chips (first of the new winter season) which went down at treat. I say it' went down' I may be misleading you, as later in the evening I found a good dollop of Romanesco and cheese sauce in my hair, what is going on? Best not think about it too long.

Things on the nursery are quieting down a bit although as usual the list of things to do seems to be getting longer. We had a big box repair session this week which brought several hundred boxes back to life which is great and very cost effective.

We also had a well overdue tidy up in the irrigation pump shed and sorted out the hanging up of all the tools we use in there to make our running repairs. No more lost spanners with a bit of luck. The new straw mulch we are using this winter to slow up the moss and liverwort growth on the top of the pots is now being applied by several teams of hardy staff. It all looks so clean and tidy once it is done, but it is going to take a while.

The microprop lab which has made such a strong recovery after pretty devastating covid disruption, is just about to go into its busy period building up the numbers for the spring orders. Not the time to suddenly go from 7 staff to 3, but hey-ho we will hopefully get back to proper levels before too long, not all the losses are permanent, just unfortunate timing on multiple events. Such is life. We are in a slightly tricky strategic position in the business as a whole but especially in the lab. The government drive towards a high pay, high productivity, economy is going to need a bit of thinking about as we find ourselves at the wrong end of that equation. 70% of the costs in the lab are labour and that labour is pretty skilled, it takes months to get new staff to achieve good work speeds coupled with the right quality of work. It doesn't take many heavy handed or misguided cuts with a scalpel blade to destroy the quality of a batch of plants, so the quality has to be there before the speed builds up. With most microprop production now being centred in developing countries where labour is cheap, there is limited chance of major price increases for us, so any hope of increasing the value of our output compared with the cost of our labour is pretty slim. With very little scope to mechanise the process, I suspect this is one area of our production which is only going to have a limited life as wages rise, which would be a shame after doing this for so long and being quite good at it, even if I do say so myself. Hopefully the nursery output which is slightly less labour orientated and less easily replaceable by imported plants, will have a brighter future but I'm sure productivity pressures will build as well as prices rise, Interesting times!

Autumn wooden box collections are now nearly done

Most of our wooden trays have now been collected up, but if you have a collection of trays ready to go, please do drop me an email and we will call in a pick them up as soon as we are in your area. At a replacement cost now in excess of £10 a box now, we can't afford to lose too many. Just been informed of another timber price rise, so definitely need them back!

Availability list highlights

The long flowering Cyclamen coum varieties are coming along with the odd flower opening already. This coum series we are growing, flowers continuously from September to April given reasonable winter conditions, it is really hardy although the number of flowers open at any one time is more subtle and modest than some of the very showy modern and less hardy pot cyclamen. A favourite of ours.

Some of the Helleborus niger varieties are in bud and flower already, Christmas has come early. Helleborus orientalis are looking strong with the occasional bud showing. A slightly enlarged range from us this year with the introduction of the Pretty Ellen range of a red, white and a pink. There are a few fresh grown Erigeron Stallone available and in bud. Ours in the garden have been known to still be flowering at Christmas. Only a few left.

Take care out there, from all at Kirton Farm Nurseries