Plant Trade Nursery Open Day

Babylon Plants is a wholesale nursery set in the Oxfordshire countryside supplying garden designers and landscapers with hardy garden plants. During the week, our team grow and pick orders for designers and landscapers across the Southeast of England as well as numerous National Trust properties. However, on the 1st Saturday of every month, we exclusively open to the public so that they too can access the incredible range of plants and enjoy the immersive and inspiring nursery set in the Oxfordshire countryside.

We grow and stock a huge range of Trees, Topiary, Shrubs, Perennials, Grasses, Climbers and Ferns which are not generally available to the public in normal garden centres. Our range of plants has been carefully chosen to suit current design trends as well being selected to thrive in the local climate and be easy to grow.

Spring is now upon us and the nursery is bursting into life. Ornamental cherry trees are bursting into flower and range from single, deep vibrant pink flowers to clouds of white blossom obscuring the branches. Our tree range is the largest in the area with a large selection of multistemmed, pleached and standard trees, some over 5 metres tall and all beautiful.

Our topiary range of balls and cones has just been restocked, so there is a huge choice of box alternatives such as Yew, Ilex, Osmanthus and Portuguese Laurel to choose from if you're looking for lower maintenance alternatives to box.

Perennials, ferns and grasses are emerging with green shoots promising exciting flowers and foliage for the summer months. Our stock areas are becoming increasingly full as we pot and set out fresh stock and the tunnels are emptied of over wintering stock. If you're looking for Irises, Peonies, Echinaceas, Salvias or other beautiful herbaceous plants to create a stunning summer border, Babylon Plants should be your first port of call.

Our dedicated shade hall is rammed full of plants specifically adapted to grow in shady conditions making it easy for you to find plants for that difficult to fill shady spot. The ferns are unfurling new fronds so the area is looking particularly fresh, complimenting the early flowers of Epimediums, Brunnera and Dicentras.

Whilst we advocate planting throughout the year as every season has its advantages, the beginning of spring is particularly popular as a planting time as the ground is usually wet, plants are growing new roots and the temperatures are conducive to establishment. Plants put in now should establish over the coming months leading to healthy vibrant displays this summer and in the years ahead.

Babylon Plants doesn't just stock a huge range of beautiful and inspiring plants. We also run the whole nursery ecologically, using peat free compost, biological controls and recycled and sterilised pots. We've planted a 5 acre meadow/woodland that surrounds the nursery and teems with wildlife. Please feel free to ask directions to the meadow and stroll along paths that weave through a huge range of trees planted over the last 30 years. This is also a great chance to get ideas on what trees might work in your space as many trees can be seen developing their mature habit and features.

Our friendly and expert sales team can help you find and select plants suited to your garden, discuss screening or tree options that might work in your garden or even advise on design and planting advice.

Category: Community | Gardening / Horticultural