In 2010 we will have an increasing selection of plants for sale as we build up the nursery again following the sale of East Lambrook Manor to Gail & Mike Werkmeister in late 2008.

We specialise primarily in herbaceous plants including hardy geraniums. In February each year we sell a small selection of snowdrops ‘in the green’ propagated mainly from the East Lambrook collection.

We have created the helpful Plants for... pages under this section of the website as a continuation of Mrs Fish’s desire to educate and help gardeners choose the right plants for the right situation. We hope that you will find it helpful, but please bear in mind that we may not have these plants for sale here - please use our list of Other Specialist Nurseries to locate plants.

History
At a time when unusual plants were a rarer commodity, Mrs Fish was one of the pioneers of the modern specialist day plant nursery. She was a kind and generous lady who would gladly dig up her plants directly from the garden for keen and interested visitors. But as her popularity and fame grew, this generosity became unworkable and so she set up a plant nursery, propagating plants from cuttings taken in her garden and selling them to visitors. People would travel from all over the country to acquire her rare ‘gems’, and some would say that her place in history is most deserved for her work in plant propagation and ‘nurserymanship’ – indeed this work actively spreads plants throughout a wide network of gardens and helped to secure the existence of many. This was particularly true for those plants which had lost favour, or were perceived as weeds or unimportant, many of which she helped to popularise and secure their rightful position in the list of cottage garden plants eg. geraniums, astrantias, vincas and lamiums, to name but a few.

Mrs Fish established the plant nursery in the mid 1950’s and the nursery has been selling specialist plants ever since. Today visitors are able to purchase a small selection of different varieties of plants, the majority of which are still propagated by hand here in the gardens.

Purchasing Plants
There is no mail order service, but visitors are welcome, 10am to 5pm, whenever the garden is open. Alternatively, or at other times of the year, if you want to check if we have a particular plant for sale ring 01460 240328 and press 4 to speak to Tom Wild in the nursery. If we have got what you are looking for you can then arrange a convenient time to collect your purchase.