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Ashbrook Nursery

Open Daily

Garden Centre:  9am - 5pm
Cafe & Gift Shop:  10am - 4.30pm

Address: Ashbrook Nursery, Forfar Rd, Arbroath, DD11 3RB, UK

Plants

Flowers and plants that are destined to flourish, grown at Ashbrook and locally sourced.

If you love tending to your garden, finding the right plants can make your hobby all-the-more enjoyable. We stock a comprehensive range of plants and flowers all year round to suit all situations and conditions, many of these plants are grown at our own nursery.

Scroll down for a brief overview of the plants we are growing this year. There are clickable links in each section so you can download a more comprehensive availability list.

Whether you come prepared with a list or just want someone to advise you, you will be sure to find the right plant at Ashbrook Nursery. Our customers come from all over the North East of Scotland as they can be sure of finding 'something special'.
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Bedding & Patio


We grow all our own bedding and patio plants and have a good range available throughout the seasons. We do not treat our plants with hormonal growth regulators which many of the larger growers do ( this keeps plants compact giving them a longer shelf life), so when you plant Ashbrook plants in your garden they just 'take off'.

We will have a wider selection available in the Spring and Summer months.
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Perennials

Click here for a guide to availability - Bear in mind, this is a guide only, and not everything will be available throughout the year.

We are particularly proud of the range of herbaceous perennials we grow at Ashbrook. Each year we like to try something new as well as the old favourites. Our beautiful plants have been used to great effect in award winning gardens at the Dundee Flower Show and Gardening Scotland.

If you can't see what you want or if you 'have a wish list' - do ask us for help - we have lots more growing 'out the back' than we can hope to display iin the shop.
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Alpines & Heathers

Click here to download our Alpine list - This is a guide only, and we may have everything available throughout the whole year.

Alpines provide a range of foliage colour and texture over winter followed by great floral displays in spring. They are hardy plants for rockeries, raised beds, borders or planters.
Many will tolerate poor soil and evergreen spreading varieties are great for weed suppressing ground cover.
Alpines tend to flower in early spring, bringing colour to the garden before the summer bedding and herbaceous perennials come into flower.

Heathers provide interest in the garden all year round with both flower and foliage colour, and of course the bees just love them!.
When planting a heather garden be sure to choose varieties to give colour through the seasons, not just those looking bonny today. Our heathers are grown by Irene of Perthshire Heathers at Starr Farm in Fife.
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Shrubs, Roses & Climbers




Again, these availability lists are a guide and we may always have everything in stock.

We aim to have a comprehensive stock of shrubs, to suit all growing conditions, not just the 'seasonal highlights'. We have 2 & 3 litre shrubs as well as larger 'specimen' shrubs for those who want an 'instant garden'. If we don't have what you are looking for please ask, we get regular deliveries from our Scottish growers McLarens and Corachie throughout the growing season.

Rhododendrons provide evergreen foliage and glorious colour in late spring. Dwarf, mid-sizedand large growing varieties available - please ask for advice.

New season, Scottish grown roses from Trains Nursery in Ayrshire.
Full range of climbing, floribunda, shrub, hybrid-T, patio, species, and celebration roses carefully selected for disease resistance, fragrance and good performance under Scottish growing conditions.
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Trees & Hedging





Many of our trees are sourced from Frank P Matthews a well respected grower in Tenbury Wells. why not have a look at their website 'Trees for Life.  For fruit trees, please see our edibles stock list.

We have a selection of bare-root hedging currently available this is an economical way to plant a hedge or woodland area.  We also stock some larger specimen laurels or conifers for those looking for an 'instant' evergreen hegde.

We have a selection of conifers arranged on the nursery benches to help you chose the right variety for your situation. 10 year height less than 4ft, more than 4ft or suitable for ground cover. Conifers are excellent for colour in the garden through the winter, several varieties changing colour when the cold weather comes adopting autumnal shades or intensifying the golden tints.  Dwarf varieties re excellent for winter planters - taller growing varieties can also be used for this - but don't expect them to stay small for ever!

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Fruit, Vegetables & Herbs


We have a range of fruit trees which provide beautiful blossoms in Spring, and fruit in late Summer/Autumn.

We also stock all sorts of fruit bushes from gooseberries, too blackcurrants, as well as strawberry plants and more.

We have a wide selection of herbs, and pre planted containers for your own miniature 'kitchen garden'.
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Grasses & Ferns


Our selection of grasses and ferns come in a range of sizes and can be perfect for use in planters, baskets, border fillers, or they can look great planted around your patio.  They can provide loveley movement in the breeze.
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Flowers & Houseplants


At the moment we have a modest selection of houseplants, cacti, succulents and those amazing ‘airplants’ in our wee greenhouse.  This is part of our stock we are trying to expand as they become ever more popular.

In the summer and Autumn, we have cut flowers avilable.  Our very first bunches of flowers were a mix of Astrantia, white Achillea and Sweet William – borne out of a wish to liven up a rather monochromatic crop of Sweet William. Since then we have tried all sorts of annuals, biennials, perennials and bulbs so our ‘posies’ are ever changing from year to year and throughout the seasons. ‘Garden Pinks’ with their wonderful fragrance form the basis of many of our bunches along with Asters, Sunflowers in the summer moving onto the autumnal scent of Chrysanthemums. For the ‘fillers’ we use all sorts! Dill, Ammi, Daucus, Statice, Bupleurum, Sweet William, Michaelmas Daisies, Solidago, Feverfew, Veronica, Campanula… the list goes on and on!

We can provide flower arrangements for functions, weddings, churches etc.
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Seeds & Bulbs

Our seed collection is comprehensive including vegetables and plants - perfect if you wish to grow your own.

Click here to viw our seed range

We stock a large range of bulbs in the autumn and a reduced avilabilty throughout the rest of the year.  We have a selection of potted bulbs available from winter through to summer.

We grow over 1200 varieties of bedding and patio plants, alpines perennials and grasses.

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Part of our 2015 Gold Medal winning Madhatters Tea Party Garden at Dundee Flower Show
"Sent on behalf of Edzell Garden Group. Thanks to Ashbrook Nursery for the wonderful service they provide. They have supplied all the plants for Edzell Village which are of excellent quality. This ensures our village always looks beautiful for visitors and residents alike."
- Donald Stewart
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