Woottens of Wenhaston, specialist plant nursery

Woottens of Wenhaston
specialist plant nursery
www.woottensplants.co.uk

Use the links on this page to purchase from our online shop

Woottens are specialists in Auriculas, Bearded Iris, Grasses, Hemerocallis and Pelargoniums.

We also grow the largest general range of sun and shade loving Herbaceous Perennials in Suffolk, plus a small but growing list of Shrubs, Climbers and Clematis.

Woottens is a real specialist plant nursery not a garden centre.

Click here for details of our opening times and special events.

We offer a border design service.


Auriculas
Woottens grow over 300 varieties of Auriculas.
We have large collections of Alpines, Border Auriculas, Doubles, Selfs, Stripes, Edges and Fancies.


Grasses
Woottens has a range of over 80 varieties of grasses.
View our collections of Grasses for shade and Grasses for sun.

Hemerocallis
Woottens grow over 300 varieties of Hemerocallis.The collection includes Selfs, Doubles, Edges, Eye Patterns, Spiders, Spider Variants and Unusual Forms. Visit Woottens on one of our Hemerocallis open days. Search for Hemerocallis by colour

Herbaceous Perennials
Woottens grow over 3,000 varieties of herbaceous perennials - everything you could need for the herbaceous border: Agapanthus, Ferns, Hardy Geraniums, Hostas, Paeonies and Penstemons….

Iris
Irises were recently ranked as one of the nation's top ten favourite flowering plants. We have one of Britain's largest collection of Modern Bearded Iris - over 300 varieties. Tall, Intermediate, Dwarf and our amazing repeat-flowering Irises The Remontants. We also grow Iris ensata, Iris foetidissima, Iris louisiana, Iris sibirica (over 50 varieties), Iris spurias, and Iris unguicularis. Visit Woottens on one of our Bearded Iris open days. Search for Iris by colour.

Pelargoniums
Not the usual boring old zonal geraniums. A range of over 250 varieties of angel pelargoniums, regal pelargoniums, scented leaf pelargoniums, decorative regals and species pelargoniums. Superb pot plants for the windowsill, conservatory or terrace.

Shrubs and Climbers
Woottens now grow a small but growing range of Shrubs, Climbers and Clematis.

Publications
Woottens "Woottens Handbook 2007" is now available for £2.50 + £2.11 postage.

Gardener's Guide
Use Woottens online Gardener's Guide.

These are just a few of the searches you can use to find the plants you require:

Choose plants by characteristics:
flower colour, flower season, plant height.

Choose plants for different conditions:
plants for full shade, plants for part shade, plants for full sun, plants for dry soil, plants for heavy badly drained clay, plants for moist well drained soil.

Choose plants for special conditions:
suitable for marine gardens, to attract bees, to attract moths and butterflies, deer-proof, rabbit proof.

Choose plants for containers.

www.woottensplants.co.uk

Susie's Lupins - photos

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Norfolk Reed Fencing, friendly to the environmentally

Norfolk Reed is the most durable material for thatching; a roof well thatched with it will last a lifetime.

What is not so well known is that good-looking and long-lasting fencing has traditionally been made by hand in East Anglia using Norfolk Reed.

Bill Bear, who runs Norfolk Reed Fencing, trained as a textile designer but made a fence for his own garden in 1992, and was asked by several people to make some for their gardens too, and so it carried on.

Norfolk Reed is environmentally friendly. Not only do regularly cut reedbeds provide valuable habitats for numerous birds and mammals, but both reed and timber are from sustainable sources.

Norfolk Reed Fencing is good-looking as well as practical. The timber frame is robust without being clumsy and the colour matches that of the reed. Timber and reed will mellow to make a wonderful backdrop for garden plants and an effective screen to hide unsightly tanks or dustbins.

Since the panels are identical on both sides, there is no 'good' or 'bad' side.

Unlike a solid fence, Norfolk Reed Fencing makes an efficient windbreak; withstanding strong wind by allowing a proportion to pass through.

All the timber used is pressure-treated and will therefore need no further attention. The reed needs no further treatment. The life expectancy of reed panels varies from 10-25 years.

Norfolk Reed Fencing is simple to erect. Use galvanised screws or nails to fix the panels directly to posts through the edging battens.

There are two types of panel; framed and open panels. Both have a substantial gravelboard at the bottom to keep reed clear of the ground. The reed is firmly sandwiched between treated timber battens. The reed in open panels is trimmed with either a straight top or wavy top. Framed panels have a chamfered timber capping to shed rainwater and protect the reed.

The panels are available in a range of sizes from stock, or as special sizes or types to order. Sloping panels, gates and panels incorporating trellis can all be made.

For more information, please visit the website
www.norfolkreedfencing.co.uk
ring on
01379 871011
or email
info@norfolkreedfencing.co.uk

Gold Star Fencing, Bungay - timber panels, posts, chainlink, gates

Gold Star Fencing Ltd
Your local manufacturer of quality products

CHAINLINK - NETTING - WIRE

CLOSEBOARD COMPONENTS

FIELD AND DOMESTIC GATES

POST AND RAIL

POSTS - CONCRETE
AND TIMBER

RUSTIC STAKES

Trade and Public Enquiries Welcome

DELIVERY SERVICE AVAILABLE

www.goldstarfencing.co.uk

enquiries@goldstarfencing.co.uk

TEL: 01986 892810
31 Staithe Road, Bungay

Garden Flowers in June - photos

Wortwell Open Garden Day, 8 June 2008

Wortwell
Open Gardens

Sunday 8th June 2008
10am to 4pm

£1.50 per adult
maps given with ticket purchase
children go free

Purchase your tickets from:
Waveney Farm Shop - Wortwell
The Bell Pub - Wortwell - on the day
The Card and Party Shop - Harleston

Refreshments will be available form many gardens
and local amenities

DISCOVER THE SECRETS FROM BEHIND THE CLOSED GATES!

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Woottens Paint the Iris Competition 2008

Woottens Iris Field Open Days provide one of the most spectacular shows of Bearded Irises in Europe – over two acres of blooms – over 400 varieties.

May 24th – 10th June

WOOTTENS 2008
PAINT THE IRIS COMPETITION

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Prizes. Rules. Entrance Requirements.

Group 1 for artists over 18 (on 01/05/08)
1st Prize £250.00
2nd Prize £100.00

Group 2 for artists under 18 (on 01/05/08)
1st Prize £200.00
2nd Prize £75.00

Group 3 for artists under 14 (on 01/05/08)
1st Prize £150.00
2nd Prize £50.00

Group 4 for artists under 12 (on 01/05/08)
1st Prize £125.00
2nd Prize £40.00

Group 5 for artists under 9 (on 01/05/08)
Ist Prize £100.00
2nd Prize £30.00


To enter Woottens paint the iris competition.

Stage 1
Download entrance form (pdf file) from www.woottensplants.co.uk

Stage 2
Each entrant must visit the Woottens Iris Fields at Wenhaston between the 24th May and 10th June – you will find a map and directions on the downloaded entrance form. Bring your entrance form to the field and we will stamp it- please note no entrance form will be accepted which has not been stamped. Select an iris at the field you would like to paint (please chose a variety of which there is plenty), ask a Woottens staff member to cut you a stem to take away. We will try to give you a stem with plenty of buds still to open – these open in succession so you should have at least a week to draw and paint the flower! If you have a camera do bring it to the field - most botanical artist use photos as well as live flowers when painting a plant portrait.

Stage 3
All entries must be submitted on A4 paper by August 30th.
All entries must be of a single named variety of Iris from the Woottens Iris Field. Each artist may only submit one picture. All entries must have sticker on reverse side with the name of the iris variety you have painted, your name, your age on 01/05/08, postal address, telephone number and email address if available. All entries must be accompanied with a completed entry form (downloaded from www.woottensplants.co.uk) If you wish your entry to be returned to you after judging, please include a stamped addressed envelope. Woottens cannot be held responsible for any loss or damage to entries in the post or whilst in their care.


The Judging

Each entry will be judged
1) on its accuracy as a portrait of the named variety
2) for boldness of composition and vigour of graphic line.

N.B. The competition will be judged by the RHS gold medal winning, botanical artist Christine Stephenson and by Michael Loftus, founder of Woottens Plants. The decision of the judges is final and no correspondence will be entered into. Woottens reserves the right to use photos of any entries

The Awards
The awards will be presented at Woottens on 5th October. All Prize winners will be expected to collect their prizes in person.

www.woottensplants.co.uk

Redisham Open Gardens, Beccles, 1st June 2008

Open Gardens in Redisham, near Beccles

Sunday 1st June 2008
2pm to 6pm

for the East Anglian Air Ambulance

Situated on the main road between Beccles and Halesworth and with over 2 acres of gardens to explore.

A refreshment, plant stall and a stand for the Air Ambulance it promises to be an excellent afternoon.

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NOW includes
A Vintage & Classic Car display!

Those guests who have a Sat Nav system should select the post code of NR34 8LU, alternatively I have included directions below:

From Beccles, follow the main Beccles to Halesworth road, through the village of Ringsfield, after leaving Ringsfield travel for approximately 1.5 miles further towards Halesworth, the garden are situated 0.5 miles Beccles side of Redisham.

From Halesworth, follow the main Halesworth to Bungay road A144 until you drive through the village of Spexhall, after passing the public house of 'The Huntsman & Hounds' be prepared to take the next major right turn towards Beccles and Redisham. Follow the road through the village of Redisham and after leaving the main part of the village drive for approximately 0.5 miles and the open gardens are on your left hand side.

Both directions will be signposted as you approach the area.

www.angliaone.org.uk

Supporting the East Anglian Air Ambulance

Bungay Garden Market 2008 - photos

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Human fruit machine fruit holders left to right:
Deputy Mayor Arthur Fisher, Mrs Fisher, Rotarians: Roger Madgett,

and Mike Daniels in the Red Hat

May Blossoms 2008 - photos

courtesy Keith Moore

Keith's Little Bit of England

Homersfield Snowdrops 26 January 2008

Somerleyton, Historic Hall & Gardens - Events

Somerleyton Historic Hall & Gardens

Events 2007

November
Special Gardens only opening on Sundays in November plus end of season gift shop sale

GARDENS OPEN 10.00 - 5.00
HALL TOURS 11.30 - 3.30
NORMAL ADMISSION PRICES APPLY TO ALL OUR EVENTS

ADULTS £4.75
OVER 60'S £3.75
CHILDREN £2.75
(HALL TOURS £3.25 OPTIONAL EXTRA CHILDREN £1.25)

Only ten minutes from Gt Yarmouth and Lowestoft

www.somerleyton.co.uk
or call 0871 222 4244

Bungay & District Horticultural Society Late Autumn Show

Bungay & District Horticultural Society
Late Autumn Show
Saturday November 3rd,
Community Centre, 2pm

For a late autumn lift, come along to see the prize exhibits from the Horticultural Society: vegetables, fruit, pot plants, cut flowers as well as handicrafts, cookery and photography. Meet old friends and have a chat over a cup of tea and a biscuit, enter the raffle and poke about amongst the plants for sale.


And if you feel like entering anything yourself you will be more than welcome! Contact the secretary:

Didy Ward on 01986 893 824 or email didyw@aol.com for details.

Sunflowers - photo

Somerleyton Hall, Gardens and Maze, YouTube

Summer Blooms in September - photos

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NGS “RIG A JIG JIG” Garden Party, East Ruston Old Vicarage

“RIG A JIG JIG”
Garden Party at East Ruston Old Vicarage

The National Gardens Scheme in Norfolk are celebrating the end of the “Open Garden” 2007 season with a NGS “Rig a jig jig ” garden party at East Ruston Old Vicarage on the 6th October 2007 by kind permission of Alan Gray and Graham Robeson.

This is an opportunity for the Norfolk NGS to invite the private garden owners, commercial gardens and nurseries who open their garden gates and thank them for contributing to such a worthwhile cause.

Alan Gray, Ambassador for the National Gardens Scheme in Norfolk said “Few people realise that the NGS support national nursing caring and gardening charities with a proportion of some openings going to other charities nominated by the garden owner.”

Major beneficiaries include Macmillan Cancer Support, Marie Curie cancer care, The Queen's Nursing Institute, Perennial – Gardeners’ Royal Benevolent Society, The Royal Fund for Gardeners' Children, National Trust - NGS garden careerships, Crossroads – caring for carers, Help the Hospices and County Nursing Associations.

This event will help raise the profile of the NGS in Norfolk and its great horticultural product. Group and tour organisers along with the garden owners are invited to attend a VIP reception to mark the occasion.

It is a fantastic way to end the eightieth birthday celebrations of the National Garden Scheme in Norfolk and plan 2008 garden days out!

The East Ruston Old Vicarage garden gates open to the public at two o’clock until five thirty, admission £5.00

Enjoy a traditional garden party with folk and country music by the Rig a jig jig band. Let the children, grandchildren, or yourselves, listen to the story telling provided by the new woodland theme park BeWILDerwood to make a fantastic family day out.

Light refreshments, plant sales and handy garden tips are all available.

Visit www.norfolkgardens.org to order a leaflet, or visit your local tourist information centre. For more information about opening your garden in Norfolk for the NGS contact County Organiser, Fiona Black on 01692 650247

www.e-ruston-oldvicaragegardens.co.uk

www.norfolkgardens.org

www.ngs.org.uk

Blooms of Bressingham, YouTube

Hales Hall Garden Sculptures Exhibition, August

Hales Hall is having an Exhibition of Garden Sculptures by East Anglian Artists throughout August.


OPEN DAYS
Wednesdays to Sundays
From 11 am to 4 pm

Entrance to the Barn, Garden & Sculpture Exhibition is just £2.00

www.haleshall.com