Guides, Advice & Inspiration Hub
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Master the basics
Essential How to Planting & Aftercare Guides
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How to Plant a Pot-Grown Tree
This step-by-step guide covers how to correctly a plant pot-grown tree (a tree supplied in a pot or container) into the ground, including how to install a single stake &...
Ornamental Trees
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How to Plant a Mature Tree
This step-by-step guide walks through how to plant a mature tree, including how to correctly install a Large or Extra Large Stake & Tie Kit (two stakes and a crossbar)....
Ornamental Trees
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How to Plant a Tree into a Container
This step-by-step guide covers how to correctly plant trees and shrubs into pots or containers. You can watch the video version of this guide below. Growing trees in containers is...
Ornamental Trees
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How to Plant a Bare Root Tree
This step-by-step guide covers how to correctly plant a bare root tree into the ground, including how to install a single stake & tie. This guide is aimed specifically at...
Ornamental Trees
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How to Prune Ornamental Trees Correctly
This step-by-step guide walks through how (and when) to prune ornamental trees correctly. You can watch a video version of this guide below. Pruning helps to keep trees healthy, promote...
Ornamental Trees
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How to Install a Tree Irrigation Kit
This step-by-step guide covers how to install an irrigation kit for a tree being planted in the ground. You can watch the video version of this guide below. A tree...
Ornamental Trees
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How to Install a Container Irrigation Kit
This step-by-step guide covers how to install container irrigation kits, which are designed specifically for trees planted into pots or containers. You can watch a video version of this guide...
Ornamental Trees
Start growing your own fruit
Fruit Tree Guides & Advice
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Beginner's Guide to Fruit Tree Pollination
When you grow your own fruit tree, you’ll need to consider pollination – how and if your tree needs to be pollinated in order to produce fruit. Read our beginner's...
Ornamental Trees
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Beginner's Guide to Fruit Tree Rootstocks
To those that are new to growing their own fruit, the concept of rootstocks can seem a little daunting. However, it's not as complicated as it seems! Read on for...
Ornamental Trees
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Ultimate Guide to Patio Fruit | How to Grow Fru...
If you only have a patio or a small garden, or if you’re struggling for space, growing fruit in pots and containers is a great option.It is one of the...
Ornamental Trees
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Ultimate Guide to Apple Trees | How to Grow You...
Apples are some of the easiest and most rewarding fruits to grow in the UK. With an established tree, you can enjoy delicious fruits for many years, as well as...
Ornamental Trees
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Guide To Pear Trees | Choosing, Planting & Pruning
Planting Pear Trees A sunny, sheltered position is preferable for pear trees. Our pot grown pear trees can be planted at any time of the year, whereas bare root pear...
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Guide To Cherry Trees | Choosing, Planting & Pr...
Choosing Cherry Trees Nothing beats the taste of home grown cherries. To grow your own, ensure you choose a fruiting cherry tree, not an ornamental one. Fruiting cherry trees can...
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How to Espalier Train Fruit Trees
Espalier is a method of training fruit trees so that they grow flat with horizontal tiers against a support, and is a great option for areas or gardens with limited...
Ornamental Trees
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How to Fan Train Fruit Trees
Fan training is a method of training fruit trees so that they grow flat against a wall or support, with the branches forming an attractive fan shape. This is a...
Ornamental Trees
Garden Guides, Advice & Inspiration
What's Flowering on the Nursery This Week?
We’re now halfway through April, and with spring in full swing, we’re starting to see many of our trees bursting into flower, brightening up the Ornamental Trees nursery with their...
Rich Colours of Autumn
The seasons are changing and Autumn has officially begun. The bright colours of summer are fading and making way for the rich coloured foliage and berries of Autumn. Maple trees...
Fresh Foliage In Striking Colours And Shapes
The wave of Spring flowering trees may be passing, but there's a plethora of fresh foliage in striking colours and shapes.Many Japanese Maples are in their prime. Acer palmatum 'Beni...
Beautiful Blooms of ‘Beni chidori’
Japanese cherry and Japanese apricot trees are starting to come into bloom now that it's spring. Prunus mume ‘Beni chidori’ is one of the first to come into flower and...
Give a Gift, Give a Tree
"My husband's birthday trees arrived this morning and are stunningly beautiful. I've been buying presents for him for so long now that finding anything different and/or interesting is a struggle....
Why should you choose a Native Tree?
There are endless reasons why native trees are a great choice for your garden, not including the wonderfully striking aesthetic impact that they provide.By choosing a native species, immediately you...
Shinto Tree Planting Ceremony
Shinto Tree Planting Ceremony Abbotsholme School 125 year Anniversary | October 1st 2014 Shinto - An ancient Japanese belief in the bond between man and nature. Shinto is about communicating...
Autumn Colour Focus ~ Warming up your garden af...
Autumn is the beginning of the warmest season in terms of the colours that flood the foliage of your trees and shrubs, giving a vibrant burst of life as the...
Small and Striking Dwarf Trees
When choosing an ornamental tree for your garden, the species, colour, seasonal interest and price all have an influence on the decision, however, the size of the tree can often...
Summer days out for little green fingers
With the summer holidays just around the corner, we’ve found a selection of fun and exciting places to take the kids to get them involved in wildlife and gardening; The Eden...
Summer Colours
With the blossoming of so many bright, new flowers in the spring and the rich, warm colours that autumn brings, summer is often overlooked as a season perfect for a...
Get The Look - Love Your Garden with Alan Titch...
The new series of Love Your Garden started last night on ITV and as always the show featured a remarkable family who greatly deserved a beautiful garden makeover. The first...
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Growing Japanese Maple Trees in Containers
Japanese Maple trees make up some of our most popular ornamental trees and our customers regularly ask us if they can be grown in containers. The great news is that...
Winter Gardens - Ornamental Trees That Look Gre...
While lots of other plants are hunkering down for the winter, there are many tree varieties that are just beginning to burst into life, bringing a wonderful splash of colour...
Thinking Ahead ~ Autumn Inspiration
All this rain in August has me thinking about the Autumn months. Beautiful crisp, cold days and colourful autumn leaves are my favourite time of year. Nothing brightens up the...
Top 3 Garden Blogs
Here at Ornamental Tree Nurseries we love technology and when tech and gardening come together we can't get enough!Here are our top 3 garden blogs;My Tiny Plot A veritable feast...
Cornus - Dogwoods
There are some glorious flowering Dogwoods out there and now is the time that they are looking fantastic. Cornus kousa chinensis with its creamy white bracts looks good grown as...
Wordless Wednesday - Japanese Maples
Here on the tree nursery we are surrounded by handsome plants daily, catching my eye this week are the fantastic Japanese Maples. Take a look at some of my favourite...
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Environmental Policy
It is part of our environmental policy to avoid the indiscriminate use of toxic pesticides. To do so, we believe, is wasteful and endangers wildlife. Instead, we operate a system...
Container grown plants available now
>It's May, the world is green with fresh new growth, fruit trees have flowered, the sun is warm. There is still time to plant pot grown fruit trees, but this...
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