Pershore College Student Plant Unit

11/06/2026

Time is nearly here for our Pershore college summerfest.
Come and join us all at the college. There will be plenty for all to do with shows, talks, stalls and much more.

We at the Pershore College Student Plant Unit will also be hosting our very first student led plant sale, come take a look at a range of fantastic plants the students have potted on.

Our very own Josh will be hosting the 'Classy plants for classy gardeners' talk

Along with a small plant identification quiz where you could win the plants you guess correctly.

Can you also beat the team at our potting up challenge 🌸🪴

Saturday 13th June 10am-3pm

08/06/2026

Great to see our plants yet again in the middle of Pershore. This time in Pershore Abbey Park Wychavon. The parks team wanted some of our Penstemon plants with Pershore in the name, or ones that we’ve named after local villages. Top left to bottom right:

Penstemon ‘Bredon’
Penstemon ‘Comberton’
Penstemon ‘Pershore Pink Lady’
The planted Penstemons.

27/05/2026

Just a small selection of gorgeous flowering perennials grown by our fantastic Hort students.

Dont forget to book your tickets for Pershore College 'Summer Fest' Saturday 13th June 10am- 3pm.
Plants will be on sale plus many more activities, talks, stalls throughout the campus.

17/05/2026

And they nearly did all go too. Thanks for your support of our students, and can’t wait to be selling you plants again at Pershore’s Summer Fest on Sat 13 June 2026.

Our Pershore College Horticulture team are here at the Moreton Morrell Annual Show with a fantastic selection of plants — and they’re going fast. Make sure you stop by and grab yours while stock lasts.

08/05/2026

We’re delighted with our GOLD 🏅🏅🏅 medal at the RHS Malvern Spring Festival in the floral marquee. With the changes we’ve made this year to enable us to focus on students and education, we couldn’t be prouder. The L3 year 1 and 2 students have been involved through the last months selecting plants, carefully growing them, and pulling together the research needed to put on the display about three great women in horticulture, Gertrude, Ellen and Beth.

An extra special thanks to Jo, Dan and Bryony for their expertise in growing and support of the students to enable the display to be gold worthy!

We are also selling our plants, potted by our ready for adulthood and landbased groups, for which the public have been buying in their droves so far - even Joe Swift bought some Euphorbia ceratocarpa, which he’s been looking for for some time.

We’re there until Sunday - maybe see you there and if not, SATURDAY 13 June 2026 where we’ll be open for Pershore College’s Summer Fest (open day). As always, keep an eye on wcg.ac.uk/spu for any news on opening.

Josh (a proud Head of School).

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08/04/2026

☀️ Calling all local vendors & makers! ☀️

Want to showcase your brand to 1,200+ visitors? Join us for the first-ever Summer Fest at Pershore College!

📅 Date: Saturday, 13th June 2026
⏰ Time: 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
📍 Location: Pershore College, Avonbank

Available Pitches:
🍔 Food & Drink: £50 (6 spaces)
🎨 Market Stalls: £25 (15 spaces)

How to Apply: Complete the form by Monday, 20th April (12:00 pm):
👉 https://forms.gle/4nHKqTUd2RJU9qsP9

Note: PLI, Risk Assessment, and Food Hygiene (4+) required for successful applicants.

27/11/2025

RFA group hard at work. Tulip planting in some planters 🌷🌷🌷

13/10/2025

It’s been a busy few weeks since students returned, helping move and prepare stock for the launch of sales from the Student Plant Unit. Our students are now involved with all activities going on with our plant growing operation.

Supported learning groups have been doing a wonderful job of preparing and cleaning areas ready to accept freshly tidied plants.

Level 1 and 3 students have been taking semi-ripe cuttings of various evergreen shrubs and have been involved with some of the prep work for building our new propagation unit too.

When we know with more certainty when we can open for some sales, we’ll be announcing dates.

29/07/2025

At Pershore College a new National Plant Collection of plants raised by and associated with the college has been recognised. Working with students it's an important part of the the links between people and plants, recognising the contribution to plant breeding over the years. Penstemon, Cotoneaster and Ceanothus amongst others are listed in this unique collection.

We look forward to seeing future work with the students, adding to this collection.

Find out more: https://bit.ly/SearchNationalCollections

Image: Cotoneaster frigidus 'Pershore Coral' at Pershore College

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18/07/2025

And that's a wrap! Thank you so much for all of the customers, students and staff that have supported and worked with us over the years. This might be the end of an era, but it is the start of a new one too!

Both the garden centre and wholesale nursery at Pershore College are now closed to the public and our trade customers. I acknowledge this is disappointing to many, but it is a necessary adjustment to ensure the long-term financial health of the horticultural department and so that we can give students the best facilities that reflect the industry in 2025. In order to do this, we'll be refocussing our efforts into our new Student Plant Unit.

This new unit will allow our students to get much more involved, whether it's from planning production for the Malvern Spring Festival, or propagating and growing ready for the public sales we'll be planning for you so you can come and buy our student-grown plants.

We really look forward to inviting you back in once we have dates planned for public sales, and we'll be posting updates on this page as we re-launch, and at wcg.ac.uk/studentplantunit

So to end for now, enormous thanks from me and the team - we'll see you in September for the new term and look to share the great things we have going on with you then.

All the best, Josh
Head of School Animal Sciences, Land based and Horticulture