Plant nurseries
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Fruit trees, bushes, canes and vines | Perennial Veg | Plants for more than one layer | Seeds | Herbs | Hedging, shuttlecock ferns, Elaeagnus | General plant info
Hulme Garden Centre: www.HulmeGardenCentre.org.uk
visit: 28 Old Birley St, M15 5RG
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Fruit Trees, bushes, canes and vines
www.kenmuir.co.uk (good range , especially strawberries (French varieties: Mara de bois, Gariguette, Manille)
www.victoriananursery.co.uk (grapes and kiwi)
www.plantsandapples.com (Scottish fruit trees amongst other things)
www.orangepippintrees.co.uk (brilliant range that they source from Frank Matthews)
www.rvroger.co.uk (excellent family run nursery in North Yorkshire. Top quality stock)
www.korewildfruitnursery.co.uk (some hard to get hold of trees eg Raisin Tree)
www.iansturrockandsons.co.uk (Ian Sturrock and Sons for fruit, if you think you can’t grow apples because of your site position, try his Bardsey apple)
Perennial veg
www.incrediblevegetables.co.uk/category/perennial-vegetables
Plants for more than one layer
www.grahambell.org.uk/product-category/catalogue-a-z Based in Scotland, Graham has the oldest intentional forest garden in the UK
www.edulis.co.uk (specialists in rare edible plants)
www.agroforestry.co.uk/product-category/plants (Live again in July after lockdown)
www.victoriananursery.co.uk (including grapes, kiwi)
www.poyntzfieldherbs.co.uk (hardy plants including native Scottish; amazing catalogue of herbs)
www.hedging.co.uk/acatalog/index.html (hedging, shuttlecock ferns, elaeagnus)
www.futureforests.ie (Based in Ireland; temporarily closed – ‘very healthy hedging plants, Berberis & Autumn Olive amongst others’)
www.pfaf.org (You will find the ever growing plant database Plants for a Future database useful)
Seeds
unlike most seeds you buy (like f1 variants) Real Seeds all come good so you can seed save and resow or swap them, they even tell you how.
Herbs
Poyntzfield Herb Nursery: on the Black Isle, an amazing catalogue of herbs worth a visit https://www.poyntzfieldherbs.co.uk
Hedging, shuttlecock ferns, Elaeagnus
General
The RHS has a plant finder (with a native filter) https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/Search-Form
There’s an amazing UK database of insects and their food plants here https://www.brc.ac.uk/dbif/hosts.aspx
You can find out first/last frost dates in around the UK here with a planting calendar www.gardenfocused.co.uk/adjust-dates-uk.php
And a companion planting guide permaculturenews.org/2010/07/30/companion-planting-guide/,
Companion planting is part of what we call guilds www.neverendingfood.org/b-what-is-permaculture/permaculture-guilds/
You might find this useful too, Hugelkultur beds www.richsoil.com/hugelkultur/ a great way to use brash and old wood to make a drought resistant raised bed.