Special offer

Special Offer
Give your garden a splash of colour with some hardy reliable evergreens.
We have some Euonymus Fortunei Emerald and Gold and  Euonymus Emerald Gaiety in 2 litre pots on special offer.
2 for £10.00 or £7.50 each

Visit us at the Devon County Show

St Bridget Nurseries are at the Devon County Show 2013, come and visit us in the Flower and Garden Marquee.

Spring has arrived

With the sun and warm days finally arriving trees and shrubs are springing into leaf, bedding plants are ready to be planted in tubs and baskets,it is best to not leave them outside unless protected overnight, as there might still be an occasional frost but to harden them off gradually over the next few weeks,these will give a long display of colour right through until late September or even longer.

St Bridget's have a large selection of perennials,shrubs,roses all ready to be planted now to give colour right through to the first frosts

Plants looking good, fresh from our nursery in Exeter

Shrubs in flower fresh from our nursery in Exeter.

Lavender stoechs

Spiraea Grefsheim

Convolvulus Cneorum

You will find these and many other plants that are grown here on our own nursery, available to plant now.

Summer bedding plants coming soon to our garden centres

Patio plants for containers and hanging baskets,bedding and vegetable plants,

With the weather eventually warming up, we are all hoping for a warm and sunny spring,
Bedding plants grown on our own nursery here in Exeter will be coming into our garden centres over the next few weeks, they will still need protection from frosts and cold winds.

Early spring colour, planted pots and hanging baskets

With spring eventually looking like its arrived, why not give your patio and decking area a bit of early spring colour before the summer bedding becomes available,We have some baskets and pots filled with new season pansies and violas.
Come and have a look at what we have in our garden centres and brighten up that dull area in you garden.

While stocks last offer

St Bridget's have 25% off of Seed Potatoes,Onion Sets and Shallots ideal for the grow your own enthusiast

Fill your borders with colour, plant some summer flowering bulbs also on offer 25% off, all while stocks last, this offer applies to pre pack summer flowering bulbs only.

Special Easter Offer 3 litre Camellias 2 for £15

St Bridget's grown Camellias special offer for the Easter weekend any 2 for £15.00
 (This offer applies to 3 litre plants only)
3 year old plants grown here on our nursery in Exeter.

Herbaceous Borders

St Bridget's home grown 9cm pot Herbaceous range has just reached both our garden centres fresh from our nursery in Exeter.
Priced at £1.50 each or 10 for £13.50 they are an inexpensive way to make a perennial border that will give colour throughout the spring and summer.

Camellias the Ideal Mothers Day Gift

St Bridget's home grown Camellias make ideal Mothers day gift,
We have a large choice of varieties and colours available.

Camellias make an ideal Mothers day gift 

St Bridget's have a large selection of home grown Camellias in our garden centres now in 3 litre pots prices at £11.50.
Also a good selection of winter heathers in 9cm and 2 litre pots, all grown on our own nursery in Old Rydon Lane

Open ground Trees

With the better weather coming , the end of the lifting season is rapidly approaching,St Bridget's Open Ground tree lifting staff have been busy with customer orders who want to get their trees in the ground after the wet weather of the past winter,there is only a few more weeks left so if you would like to plant a tree this season contact our garden centres to pre order or visit our Tree field tour on the afternoon of the 22nd Feb or the morning of Saturday 23rd Feb ring to make book your place on 01392873672 see our website for more details   .www.stbridgetnurseries.co.uk

Tropical Fish are swimming our way...

We're very excited that our coldwater fish are going to have some new friends namely freshwater tropical fish like guppies and the beautiful Siamese Fighters. Our aquatic centre at Clyst St Mary is making space for the tanks due to arrive in a fortnight and so we hope to be selling the fish by the end of October. The team are very excited and with expert Darren leading the way it's set to be a great addition to the garden centre.

Plants for difficult situations

If you have a spot that you find difficult to get plants established here are a few ideas.

Dry/Sunny sites
Cistus (Sun Rose)
Euphorbia Wulfenii
Olearia
Fabiana
Phlomis
Hibiscus

Here are a few ideas for that Shady spot in the corner of your garden
Crinodendron
Euonymus
Hydrangea Macrophylla
Lonicera Pileata
Vinca Varieites
Pachysandra

If you have Alkaline (Lime) soil in you garden here are a few suggetions.
Deutzia
Kolkwitzia
Santolina
Philadelphus
Osmanthus

For more information on finding a plant for that difficult spot, ask at our garden centres,who should be able to show you and give you more information.

Opening Times

Winter Opening Times

So it would seem that summer in our eyes has been (did it?) and gone! We've reverted to our winter opening times so our garden centres are now open Monday-Saturday 9-5 and Sundays 10.30-4.30

St Bridget's Rose(s) of the Year

After a fantastic turnout to our rose field tours last Friday and Saturday, we asked visitors to vote for their favourite rose. We have never received such a spectrum of results. 46 varieties received at least one vote each! Infact, there wasn't a clear winner but a tie between Leonardo de Vinci (shown) and Sexy Rexy. Congratulations to Ms Walton from Bovey Tracey who won her favourite rose ' Lady Penelope' in our prize draw.

If you want to see all the varieties that we grow in Exeter, please click here.

Salvage Garden Competition

I've just got back from judging this year's Devon Wildlife Trust's salvage garden competition (well done Paul Martin for organising it). Seven primary schools took part this year, which is fantastic but meant that judging was more difficult. Indeed it was so close I decided to add an extra prize and award a second/runner up!

There were some fantastic ideas and indeed if you mixed elements from each garden I think you'd have the pefect one - the plants from Clyst Heath, the creativity and design from Pinhoe, the colour and signage from Whipton Barton, the inventiveness of Stoke Hill with the frying pan bird bath, the recycled bath and beatiful verbenas from St Michael's, the water feature of Countess Wear (a sunken sink) and Topsham's colourful recycled jubilee paper cups. All stunning.

Well done to everyone involved. Take a look at the winner's on Devon Wildlife Trust's blog and check out their great wildlife gardening webpage. Remember many of the plants we sell are wildlife friendly. Ask for our wildlife gardening leaflet or ask staff to help you choose plants wildlife love.

Herbaceous Perennials

Come to St Bridget's and pick some perennials to give a fantastic summer border display..

We have a large range in flower now and can be taken away and planted now to give instant impact.

Perennials flowering now include-

Hemerocallis,Verbena Bonariensis, Hardy Geraniums (Cransebills), Tradescantia,Leucanthemum and Phygelius to name a few.

Be the first to see our online video... this is the official launch

Jubilicious Weekend Offer

To celebrate the Diamond Jubilee, the nursery team have reduced a few bedding plants. The offers below are valid only from Saturday (2nd June) until Tuesday (6th June) in both St Bridget's Exeter Garden Centres, while stocks last.

Begonia Semperflorens 6 pack £2.99 - Buy one pack and get another one free

9/10cm Patio Plants £1.99 each or buy 5 plants for £8 or buy 10 plants for £12! Offer excludes geraniums.

Why not pick up some plants to jazz up your doorstep so you can enter our doorstep challenge and win a further £50 worth of plants?? See previous blog post.