Oak End Nursery & Potager opens in Chalfont St Giles, Bucks

Specialist in Perennials to the trade 10% off all trade orders before 8 July 2013.

Trade Open Days 20-21 June, 3 - 8pm.

Oak End Nursery & Potager has opened, providing top quality herbaceous perennials to garden designers, landscapers and contractors, and the general public. The nursery also offers a garden design service, from whole garden layouts to individual borders, and a planting service.

Oak End founders Liz Apedaile and Liz Robinson both have backgrounds in horticulture and long experience in garden design and landscaping. Together they have worked to create their ideal production nursery and make it a source of inspiration and plantsmanship. “While garden design has been an important part of our working lives,” says Liz Apedaile, “it’s the plants that captured our hearts.” Oak End’s stock includes more than 170 different varieties of perennial plants, ranging from acanthus to verbena, and the nursery can source plants as well.

“Perennials have become increasingly popular,” notes Liz Robinson. “Although many die down in winter, with clever planning, you can always ensure there will be something of interest in the garden – even in the depths of winter, you can create the anticipation of something about to happen.”

Liz Apedaile, PhD studied Agricultural Botany and has worked in garden design since 1988, winning an RHS Bronze medal at Hampton Court Flower Show in 2001. Liz Robinson gained a diploma in garden design at Merrist Wood College in 2000 and set up her own garden design business, winning medals from the Hampton Court Flower Show and Chelsea Flower Show.

In March 2012, they took on a two-acre site in Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire that had been left to nature for 20 years, and transformed it into a welcoming oasis of green and growing space. In the heart of the nursery, Ms Apedaile and Ms Robinson are creating a beautiful potager for the local community, an edible garden where vegetables are cultivated amidst flowers, herbs and fruit to create a lovely fusion of form and function.

Liz Robinson observes, “We are both strong believers in the importance of locally produced food, and our potager is designed to feed the body as well as the soul.”

Oak End Nursery & Potager is located at Lambscroft Farm, Narcot Lane, Chalfont St Giles, Bucks HP8 4DX, tel: (01494) 411 001. Summer opening hours are Tuesday to Friday, 9:00 am-5:00 pm, Saturday and Sunday, 10:00 am-4:00 pm.

Website: www.oakend.co.uk

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