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08/09/2021

Our plant of the week is… the Japanese Anemone 🌸

When the Japanese anemones bloom, you know autumn is just around the corner. These tall, elegant perennials flower in late summer, just as other plants are starting to fade. With their sculpted pink or white flowers on long slender stems, they’re a dramatic presence in the border, keeping summer going just that little bit longer and we just love them.

This beautiful plant is a perfect way to add a flash of colour to your late summer garden, and the good news is we have plenty in stock at our plant centre near Sherston.

Come and visit us soon!

06/09/2021

🌷Spring flowering bulbs are now available 🌷
I know we don’t want to think about autumn as we are yet to have a summer. Hopefully we have a few days of sun still to come ☀️🤞.

We also have a good range of late summer flowering plants as well as some great grasses to keep you garden looking fresh into the autumn.

Come and see at our plant centre near Malmesbury soon!

30/08/2021

We have lots of fab hardy plants available at our Sherston Nursery! Come along and have a look 👀🪴

22/07/2021

Dead-heading is much less brutal than it sounds! Basically flowers are a plants way of having s*x- that got your attention didn’t it! 😱💖

Plants produce flowers in order to attract insects who will either bring pollen from another flower to them or take their pollen away to fertilise another flowers.

Once successfully fertilised, the flower starts to make baby plants - seeds. Have you heard to expression "going to seed" - often used by people about people - and often in a negative context? Well this is where the expression comes from.

If a plant goes to seed then it stops flowering and put the energy into growing those seeds, so if you remove the old flower heads once they've 'gone over' or 'died' then rather than producing (going to) seed the plant will produce more flowers to try are attract more pollinators.

To dead-head just using your fingers is enough on many plants, like cosmos, with thin snap-able stems. Scissors are useful with petunias and fleshy stems that'll get sticky and secateurs for tougher plants like roses, cut the stem below the flower head and if the flowers on a long stem cut the stem back to the first leaf.

All that said- sometimes you need to leave the flowers to go to seed as its the seeds you want - notably fruit - blossom is the flower but you don't deadhead blossom because its the seed (albeit inside a fruit) that you grow the plant for.

It's also worth knowing that bulbs are different again, the bulb actually stores the sugar (energy) that will help the plant regrow the following year so although it's OK to remove a flower stem when it's 'gone over' but leave the foliage as its making the sugar (remember photosynthesis?) to help next year's growth.

Hope you found this helpful! If you have any questions please ask away!

17/07/2021

Need some late summer colour in your garden?
🌸Loads of fresh stock added today including HUGE late summer flowering Rudbeckia and Gaura.
🌸A massive selection of hydrangea in full colour.
🌸Echinacea that’s swarming with pollinators 🐝and we still have some full sized hanging baskets and 2L home grown perennials from £4 each in our summer sale.

Coffee shop open with outdoor seating amongst our Christmas tree plantation. Hortico is in Sherston. SN160NX

12/07/2021

Since 2019 all Hortico production is in special pots than are made from kerbside recycled plastic AND they are kerbside recyclable.

They are mostly a distinctive blue colour but more recently they're being made in grey, brown and green too. We reuse pots when we can and reuse carry trays many many times.

Even the black plastic that isn't recyclable isn't quite that bad, the reason it's black is because it's been recycled so many times before, it’s now too poor to reuse. Many black plastic pots are made from old tyres.

What steps have you made to help reduce plastic use in your gardening practices?

06/07/2021

Our plant of the week is Ostepspermum or Cape Daisy. If you asked a child to draw a flower, they’d draw an osteo. Classic daisy like appearance, long flowering (but of course you need to remove the old flower heads) and you can even over winter them with care!

Order yours today at www.hortico.online

23/06/2021

Massive savings on Herbaceous Perennial 12 plant collection and free delivery to Swindon and North Wiltshire. Full sized plants, not seeds or plugs. Repeat Flowering. Recycled plastic pots and grown pesticide free!

19/06/2021

🌱 Meet the team 🌱

Piers started work at Homebase, when it was owned by Sainsburys, as a trainee buyer. Piers was placed in the garden centre buying team which was based at the depot in Swindon rather than the head office like the rest of head office.

He learned about plants on the job and did his RHS general certificate in Horticulture (the lowest level acedemic qualification from the RHS) at Lackham in 1998.

Piers then enjoyed several jobs buying for, and selling to, most UK multiple plant retailers whilst building up a huge range collection of contacts.

In 2006 Piers (and Sarah) set up Hortico with a plan to sell hanging baskets to pubs. Over the ensuing years the business evolved and Hortico became a grower/ retailer, and since March 23rd 2020, an online retailer too!

Piers has other jobs too whilst Sarah and James run Hortico, mostly travelling the UK visiting other growers and retailers, advising on specialist growing and plant nutrition. Whilst doing this job (and helping run Hortico) Piers also did the RHS Master of Horticulture qualification (the highest level qualification from the RHS!)

We’d love to learn a bit about you too! Where are you from and what is your favourite plant?

11/06/2021

These amazing pictures were all taken yesterday at our off-grid nursery! It’s definitely time to add some colour to your garden. Free delivery in Swindon and North Wilts 💙💚🧡💜❤️💛

ORDER your perfect plants today at www.hortico.online

08/06/2021

Looking for healthy, established, pesticide free plants delivered to your doorstep by a local supplier?

We are Hortico.Online a family run business providing AMAZING quality plants with next day delivery to your home in North Wilts and Swindon.

👉ORDER online today at www.hortico.online👈

04/06/2021

Hello 👋 We thought we would quickly introduce ourselves!

Hortico is a family owned and run plant centre in Sherston, North Wiltshire. We are growers of perennial (cottage garden) and bedding plants. We also buy from trusted other specialist growers, locally if possible.

The plant centre is “off-grid”, so has no mains services including electricity, because of this everything is grown in it’s natural-season, so the plants are strong and healthy.

We also will not use harmful pesticides and instead use safer biological solutions. We keep Bees and sell our own honey 🐝

In the first lockdown we set up Hotico.online to serve the local area, and it was a great success. We have now relaunched to replicate this service in Swindon, bringing gorgeous plants directly from our nursery to your home!

Find out more about us and our team by visiting www.Hortico.online

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