Seed grown plants are already growing on

Our seed grown plants are already growing for the coming season.

We grow our pond plants from our own stock plants from cuttings or by divisions as well as from seed.

We are a small family plant nursery based in Leicestershire, UK, committed to being as sustainable and environmentally friendly as possible.

• Our Plant Passport Registration is in place as per the legislation of 14 December 2019 to help with Plant Health & disease control. This system enables the tracking of a plants' history.
• By 'Growing our Own' we keep the carbon footprint of our plants small and the risk of importing pests & diseases to a minimum.
• We buy very few plants.

Growing from seed:

• We collect our own seed on the Nursery when it is ready, as each plant naturally produces it.
• Seed grown plants take the longest time to become mature and ready for sale.
• We have already planted many seed trays for next year and some have germinated and the seedlings moved on into 7cm pots.
• The new young plants overwinter in unheated poly-tunnels before hardening off outside in Spring.
• We transplant the young plants into their final mesh basket for dispatch later in the season.
• The plants ready for dispatch in early Spring were seeded down and processed from seed to final basket during last year.

We have a constant turnaround of our own seed-grown plants. See our list of seed grown varieties in the table on our Pond Propagation page.

There is nothing more satisfying than creating a new plant from a seed!

In February some of these small plants photographed in January will be ready to move into a larger 11cm basket.

British Native plants grow well:

• Many British Native species will seed down.
• You will find new plants in the mud or water of your pond that will make small plants for next year.
• A sure-fired method of gaining extra plants for your pond and bog garden
• collect the seed to sow in a more controlled way.
• Remove seedheads once you collect enough seed if you do not want random plants.
• Do this before seed ripens and drops naturally.
• British Native are often prolific seeders.
• In the moist emergence zone British Native plants will set true seed too.
• Some non Native plants come true from seed too - Iris versicolor, Cyperus eragrostis Primula beesiana Primula japonica.
• But Named varieties of pond plants and bog garden plants like Iris versicolor Mysterious Monique should not be allowed to set seed. Seedlings will not produce the named variety so remove these seedheads.
• Propagate Named varieties by splitting the parent clump - vegetative propagation.

Read our Tips and Advice page on propagating plants.

Cuttings and divisions are produced in warmer weather and grow into mature plants more quickly than seed grown plants. These will be started when the weather warms a little.

See the list of plants grown on by cuttings and division in the table on our Plant Propagation page.