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Overbeck’s Garden, The National Trust, Salcombe Have you ever taken a detour to Overbeck’s Garden? Overlooking the most beautiful rugged coastline, Gara Rock and East Portlemouth to the East, Salcombe to the North, is the most fabulous National Trust garden. It sits above Salcombe, about 224 miles south‑east of our West Sussex Nursery, roughly a…

The Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park Recently, I was lucky enough to visit The Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park. This is situated in the East of Grand Cayman, an island to the West of the Caribbean. Grand Cayman is part of the British West Indies and better known for its diving. The Queen Elizabeth II Botanic…

After all the exploring and plant hunting it’s vital to find a good place to rest your head and recover. These are our favourite places, but we are always hunting for more. …

You’ve been hunting for plants and you’ve got the taste of adventure? Here’s our guide to the places we visit when we aren’t tending to our Architectural Plants….

The demise of Box. We are an indomitable lot we gardeners, and once the inevitable has been recognised there are alternatives. So if you are looking for advice and guidance to help find a suitable Box replacement, read on……

Hunting for plants makes you hungry (and thirsty!). Here’s our guide to the places we visit when we aren’t tending to our Architectural Plants….

Special helicopter mission Recently we air-lifted six of our mature specimens across the South East to complete a planting project in collaboration with the landscaping team at Green Oak Services. This is the story of the lift. No job is impossible, no plant too big, and no location too hard to reach for our Garden…

Online shopping at AP We don’t mind admitting that we have launched our online shop with a certain amount of trepidation. In the past, plans to provide our customers with an online mail order service have been hindered by all sorts of questions – not least, how to overcome the often unsociable nature of e-shopping…