Quercus Garden Plants

Quercus Garden Plants Tough plants for Scottish Gardens growing at 850 feet above sea level. Inspiring gardens and nursery

We are a unique, independent Scottish nursery and gardens growing and selling a wide range of healthy and hardy plants. These include old favourites and many unusual varieties of herbs, herbaceous perennials, grasses, trees, shrubs and plants for shade. Because we grow at 850 feet above sea level our plants are tough and well acclimatised to Scottish growing conditions. The majority of them are p

ropagated and grown on site, outside for at least a season so are fully hardy and tough enough to cope with our Scottish weather and soil conditions. We are peat free both in the nursery and selling only peat free compost. We are environmentally friendly, recycling as much as possibly and trying to reduce our impact on the environment
We are wildlife friendly with gardens designed for wild life, over 46 varieties of wildflowers, over 60 species of moths and we are also home to many many frogs, toads, newts, bats, stoats, butterflies, hundreds of types of insects, water creatures, a barn owl and so much more. We also have created a series of gardens to inspire and show you what can be grown in these sometimes challenging conditions. Gradually a garden of "rooms" and different areas is evolving to make our customers visits an experience rich in colour, scent. sound, seasonal interest, an interesting collection of plants and inspiring ideas. We are always happy to advise and help you get the very best from your garden.

18/06/2026

So much to see in the nursery and gardens this month, colours, foliage, wildlife, fabulous hardy plants, wee shop stuff, pots, peat free compost and so much more.

Isabel and Fiona are in charge this weekend and looking forward to helping you with all your garden questions, chat and purchases. I am away to celebrate the first of my sons getting married, I can't wait to spend the day celebrating with Jamie and Natasha ❤️ family

Wednesday to sunday 10am to 5pm

See you soon 😊

17/06/2026

Some company on the potting bench this afternoon. A wee newt hitched a ride in a tray of iris, now safely put under some plants in the garden.

Its not all hard work and potting at Quercus, we do like a laugh too and so two years ago we had a new, unexpected and n...
16/06/2026

Its not all hard work and potting at Quercus, we do like a laugh too and so two years ago we had a new, unexpected and not entirely welcome addition to the Quercus team……………… Gnorman. David in his usually husbandly fashion, knowing my dislike of garden gnomes undertook to purchase said gnome and generally terrorize the team with it. Hiding it in unexpected place and generally making a nuisance of himself and Gnorman.

And all because there was a no plants allowed on David’s workbench sign ………….. which of course no gardener is going to ignore……….. then there were plants, lots of plants over lots of weeks………………then this arrived! Apparently it’s the defender of the work bench…….

But in true Quercus team fashion Fiona, Isabel and I rose to the occasion and dealt with this garden pest, putting all our horticultural training into practice.

Gnomebody is going to take this seriously especially us gardeners…….so the gnome ended up in jail to control its gnomey bad habits ………. Then it broke out (or was secretly liberated)…………… It kept appearing in unexpected places…….. It seemed indestructible…………My beloved husband seems to think that gmonebody gnomes better than he does……what would happen next in Gnomegate?

Sadly in early 2025 Gnorman met a timely, I mean un-timely end and was found in many pieces beyond fixing. I honestly do swear this was no ones fault and he fell from a great height…………..

To make matters worse Chelsea Flower Show of all places have decreed gnomes are acceptable! Speechless…….. which brings us to now and David had an unexpected arrival in the post this week. Revenge of the anti gnome brigade has been implemented and perhaps this is what happened to Gnorman all those months ago……

Middle of June already! Progress continues in the stock beds, quickly in the shade stock beds as Isabel makes inroads in...
15/06/2026

Middle of June already! Progress continues in the stock beds, quickly in the shade stock beds as Isabel makes inroads into Astilbes and actaeas, more slowly in the main stock beds as I fit it in amongst a hundred other jobs, but I did finish K’s on Sunday (we wont mention there are only 4 varieties in K’s :D) Progress is also being made tidying and propagating the grasses that live in tunnel 2 and clearing the field stock beds for this years prop to get potted into there 🌿

The weather has been all over the place, heavy rain, winter cold, hot sun, windy, no wind, we are as confused as the plants and while we are missing some of last years heat and warmth at least we’re not running around with hoses and sprinklers trying to keep everything alive! 🌧️❄️🌞

I’ve ordered bulbs, so they will be for sale in autumn as per usual, we have all rhododendrons half price along with a selection of grasses we are discontinuing (Sesleria caerulea, Sesleria nitidaSchizachyrium scoparium 'Prairie Blues') 🎋

Our first gardening with grasses workshop was a great hit and thanks to those that attended and left great feedback. We have another running in autumn which you can book on our website.

The sales area is stuffed with fabulous early summer colour, we’ve had more trees and shrubs delivered, theres Meconopsis sheldonii, acraeas, more scented geraniums and more of everything you love at Quercus. Peat free compost and all our wee shop gifts and gardening things. We’ve still some fruit plants (rhubarb, blueberries, red, white and black currents, grape vines and strawberries) and the water plant tanks are full of all the usual suspects inc waterlilies, marginals, oxygenators, baskets and compost.

I’ve also been experimenting this week with wedding bouquets, as after over 2 years of planning the first of our kids gets married on Saturday. We are so excited to share Jamie and Natasha’s special day with them and I will be up to my ears in flowers and plants as I am supplying and helping them put all the flower arrangements, bouquets and button holes together, such a joy to to be part of their day. We’ve been growing plants in the tunnels for cutting and many of the flowers will come from my own garden, their garden and the Quercus gardens

This weekend it's Fiona's turn to choose five star plants she would recommend you buy in the sales area :) -Primula viva...
14/06/2026

This weekend it's Fiona's turn to choose five star plants she would recommend you buy in the sales area :)

-Primula vivalli: The pagoda primula really is different from the rest, standing out wit its colour combo of purple and red and the shape of the conical flowers. Opening from the bottom of the flower up this is definitely a plant to grow if you like something unusual.

- Heuchera ‘Palace Purple’: A big bold large leaved heuchera, standing out from the rest with its upright habit. Great for borders and containers this plant will give all year round interest and it flowers too!

- Meconopsis Sheldonii: The most amazing blue flowers, as soon as you say Himalayan poppy everyone knows what you are talking about. It can be a challenge to grow but absolutely worth giving it a go.

-Osteospernum ‘Lady Leitrum’: one of the hardiest to grow in Scotland and although treated as bedding, this variety will quite often come through a Scottish winter in a sunny sheltered spot.

- Sempervivium 'Arctic White': a stunning variety of houseleek with very white “spiders webs” over the rosettes of fleshy leaves. Needing very little care they will grow in almost no soil, in stone walls, containers, on the roofs of buildings and in crevices in rock gardens.

The calendar says it June but no one has told the weather :/ After a cold, windy drizzly day here's some flower power co...
13/06/2026

The calendar says it June but no one has told the weather :/

After a cold, windy drizzly day here's some flower power colour to brighten your Saturday evening.

Of course we can't not mention the footy - I wont be staying up to watch but keeping everything crossed for a tartan victory 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

We have all the colours this week in the nursery and gardens. The sales area is tidied and theres lots more plants out i...
12/06/2026

We have all the colours this week in the nursery and gardens. The sales area is tidied and theres lots more plants out into the stock beds and sales area from through the back, its all go.

Have a look at the reduced plants when you visit, we've a few grasses and rhodos half price.

We've had a few more trees and shrubs delivered, those fabulous scented geraniums abd a small selection of cacti and house plants from our own collection ❤️

See you soon 😊

Wednesday to Sunday 10am to 5pm

If you've visited the nursery or followed us for a while, you will know how much we love to recycle things, make new thi...
11/06/2026

If you've visited the nursery or followed us for a while, you will know how much we love to recycle things, make new things out of old and give items a new lease of life.

We are loving these vintage terracotta pots which we were lucky enough to buy last year and now have for sale in the nursery. They are so versatile and of course look great too with their old worn patina (bit like me really 🤣🤣🤣)

Plant them up with our herbs or alpines, semperviviums, cacti or succulents or use some of the broken ones to make a cacti tower like ours (Nothing goes to waster here) There are at least 5 different sizes, we are loving the teeny weeny ones the most, they are so cute! We have a small range of cacti, succulents and houseplants available at the moment.

Wednesday to Sunday, 10am to 5pm.

10/06/2026

Come with me and my froggy friend as we have a look at some of the great plants we have in stock at the moment in the sales area 🐸

We have 2 places available on our Ornamental grasses workshop on Saturday. If you want to learn more about these versati...
09/06/2026

We have 2 places available on our Ornamental grasses workshop on Saturday. If you want to learn more about these versatile plants and how to use them in the garden, you can book on out website following the link below:

Saturday 13th, 11am to 12noon.

https://www.quercusgardenplants.co.uk/nursery%20shop.html

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Whitmuir Farm, Lamancha
West Linton
EH467BB

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+441968660708

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