Supplying fab plants, quality tools and gardening advice - from the heart of Lewes. Fi’s Yard is packed full with hardy herbaceous perennials. and she does!)
Favourites like lupin, salvia and delphiniums, old stalwarts like Ladies Mantle, Geum and hardy geraniums and special treats for the discerning gardener to spot among the crowd, take home and nurture. I also sell ferns, grasses and a range of herbs. With weekly deliveries, from growers around Sussex, the range and diversity is always fresh and dynamic. As the seasons change, so too the plants, the
ir colours and the inspiration they bring. Bedding plants and a range of vegetable seedlings are available after the last frost. There is also a small selection of good quality tools from Niwaki - quality tools made to last. Snips, herbaceous sickles and the sharp-bladed trowel, the Hori-hori. I’m doing what I can to make our industry green. All of my plants are sourced in the UK, most from Sussex nurseries. The growing medium is peat-free. All of the nurseries I work with use biological controls in preference to chemicals. I offer peat-free compost, in small carry out bags for the non-car user. All pots and labels are suitable for kerb-side recycling and better still, there is a used-pot swop bucket. Don’t forget your tote bag as we only supply small paper bags, none of the plastic stuff. (...and I leave the ivy on the walls to flower, for the Holly Blue butterfly to lay her eggs on ….
13/10/2022
Hi there folks,
Fi’s Yard closes at the end of the summer through to March. This is because I largely work with herbaceous perennials and they don’t look at that best during the winter months.
However, I can’t resist the autumn planting season altogether so, I have a number of rather special apple trees on order. They are all rare varieties that are unique to Sussex. These will be delivered at the end of November. I shall post as soon as they arrive .
Also, I know I shouldn’t mention this until after Bonfire, but if I just whisper ‘Christmas trees’ ….you’ll remember where to get them when the time comes.
I must apologise for the loss of Fi’s Yard Instagram. Goodness knows how that evaporated into the ether, but hoping to be up and running shortly….
Ps. Enjoyed helping with the harvest at Breaky Bottom vineyard!
04/04/2022
Now open 7 days a week!
9am-4pm - see you soon.
26/11/2021
Christmas is coming!
Find the most luscious trees in town at Fi’s Yard.
Open Tuesday to Saturday, 10am-4pm.
26/11/2021
31/08/2021
Sorry- closed for the winter months.
I shall be open for a couple of weeks to sell those conifers popular during the late December period - not wanting to mention the C-word.
Fi’s Yard will open again in mid-March. Look forward to seeing you then.
Fi
16/03/2021
New opening hours at Fi’s Yard:
Open every day but Monday
10am - 4pm
(early closing Wednesday)
09/07/2020
Loads of colour cheering-up a grey day: Vibrant terracotta, ruby red and deep purples blending and clashing their way around in this breezy weather.
04/06/2020
Very excited to see my new Shepherd's Hut installed today. Lovingly restored by Vic Oliver (seen here playing his accordion as we celebrate it's installation) and previously on show at Bentley Wildfowl Museum.
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I have been a horticulturist for over 35 years. I’ve worked nationally and internationally in horticulture and plant conservation all of my professional life and it’s been a diverse career: I started at the Royal Parks, and then worked as a Field Technician producing Evening Primrose oil. Whilst I was the Alpine & Herbaceous Propagator at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew I completed my Masters in Horticulture (RHS). With Botanic Gardens Conservation International, I was privileged to travel widely as their Project Officer and completed an MSc in plant conservation (Birmingham). I was an Advisor for the Royal Horticultural Society and went on to manage a gardener training programme for English Heritage. Lately, I was the Head Gardener at Charleston.
As Head Gardener, I spent the last three years restoring the garden at Charleston – the home of the Bloomsbury group. I focused on plants that had been grown and painted by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. Plants with saturated colours, architectural grandeur and the simple, bucolic charm of an English country garden - with a Modernist twist – above all a painter’s garden.
I became interested in the plants popular in the 1930-40’s and Fi’s Yard reflects something of that charming vintage– the blousy phlox and scented pinks, stately lupins and delphiniums, bearded iris, bold oriental poppies and the smiling faces of doronicums and marguerites. Later in the season we will enjoy the purples and blues of the asters, which so powerfully contrast with the oranges and yellows of heleniums, rudbekia and the dahlias, which will be featured, in all of their riotous variety.
Fi’s Yard is also the place for the vegetable growers amongst us – from those taking their first tentative steps at home to the full-blooded allotmenteer. As well as supplying tomato plants and other young veg plants, Fi’s Yard has a great stock of sundries from fertiliser and compost accelerator to string, coppice stakes (bean-poles) and straining wire (for your climbing roses).
I believe it’s vital to provide good quality items to support the keen gardener so you can be sure to find Sussex trugs and high quality hand tools made by Niwaki - secateurs, garden snips and pruning saws. Last but not least, locally made bird tables and nesting boxes.
