Upcoming Events
Halloween Fun Day
Saturday 25th October
10am-4pm
booking is not required
Come along to Ashbrook and enjoy some fun seasonal activities!
Halloween Displays - Pumpkin Carving - Pumpkin Posies
Guess the Witches Birthday (win a cake from our café)
Arts & Crafts - Woodland Wander & Fairy door Hunt
Booking is not required, but a small charge will apply for some activities - just pay on the day. If you wish to use our apple press, please bring your own apples and a container if you would like to take your apple juice home! Fancy dress is not essential but is encouraged - adults too!
Winter Planter & Basket Workshop
Thursday 13th November
6pm-8pm, £15pp*
Learn how to create a beautiful planted container or hanging basket to add colour to your garden right through winter. Anne will guide you through the key things to consider, and help you plant up your own to take home.
*£15pp covers the tuition, refreshments and the compost for your container. You will have the opportunity to do a 'supermarket sweep' where you can choose your own container or basket and whatever plants you wish to add - these will be charged for on the night.
Christmas Shopping Nights
Thurs 13th November & Thurs 4th December
5pm - 8pm
booking is not required
Live Music
Enjoy some festive tunes from Arbroath & Carnoustie Brass Band
Double Loyalty Points
Earn back for 4 pence for every pound spent on the night.
Food and Drink
Enjoy festive refreshments from our café and try some samples.
Hot food will be on offer.
Christmas at Ashbrook
Christmas Wreath Workshop
Tues 25th, Weds 26th & Fri 28th November
6.30pm-8.30pm, £42pp
Table Centre Workshop
Tues 16th December
6.30pm-8.30pm, £32pp
Breakfast with Santa
Saturday 6th & Saturday 20th December
8.30am-9.45am, £16.95pp
Breakfast with the Grinch
Sunday 14th December
8.30am-9.45am, £16.95pp
Garden Stories - Sally's 'Fiery' Border
Why not try Erysimums (perennial wallflower) and Tulips together this spring? There are endless combinations of colours to experiment with - be as bold or as subtle as you like!
I accidentally created this border one spring after banishing these red tulips from the main borders to the front of the house. I’d sown a perennial seed mix previously and not thought much about it. It’s a tricky border that often gets flooded over winter by water running down the road. By happy accident these lovely golden perennial wallflowers came up and intermingled with the tulips. They seed about the border and have completely changed my mind about hot colours in a border!’
'Potty About Primroses'
At Ashbrook Nursery we are just ‘Potty about Primroses’. We don’t claim to be ‘experts’, but we are certainly enthusiastic about these lovely plants which delight us from autumn through to summer.
Click the button below to read Anne's article written for the 'Garden Expert' feature for
Discover Scottish Gardens.
Defibrillator Fundraiser
A huge thank you to everyone who has donated to our defibrillator fundraiser. We have now managed to purchase a defibrillator which is now located at the entrance to our garden centre.
Our 'Panto Trail' was a hugely popular fundraiser over Christmas with lots of entrants to our competition, and an impressive number of you finding all the answers, and even finding extras which we didn't create! With so many full marks, we had to pick a winner based on most clues noted, so well done to Lucyna, Alicja, Robert & Marcin who have won a £30 Ashbrook voucher!
Our displays are shown in the gallery below.
