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Ashwood’s Charity of the Year 2017 is to be the West Midlands’ leading sight loss charity the Beacon Centre. The Beacon Centre has been helping local people with sight loss live a fuller, more independent life, for more than 140 years but figures show the numbers of those with visual impairments will only grow in […]

Daily Mail readers have been treated to a full colour double-page spread on John’s Garden at Ashwood Nurseries. The Mail’s weekly Life feature headlines ‘The bungalow garden one man turned into a wonderland’ and describes how nursery owner John Massey’s ‘labour of love’ has created ‘a glorious garden, currently ablaze with dramatic autumn colours’. A […]

After another very busy Garden Open Day on September 24th we are pleased to announce that the total so far raised for Ashwood’s Charity of the Year has now reached a magnificent £22,077.67 …and it’s still rising! On Saturday we welcomed an amazing 524 visitors to the garden: the weather was kind to us, the […]

Ashwood has scooped a Gold medal and The Diamond Jubilee Award for an hepatica exhibit at RHS Chelsea Flower Show! Nursery owner John Massey and the Ashwood team shared an emotional day of tears and laughter on the first day at Chelsea when they discovered that, not only had they achieved a much coveted Gold […]

The countdown to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show has begun and the tension is building at Ashwood as we prepare for our hepatica exhibit in the Great Pavilion:  these exquisite Spring-flowering herbaceous plants are making their debut this year, the first time they have ever been shown as a single exhibit at Chelsea. This has […]

We are delighted to announce that the total so far raised for High Flyers (our Charity of the Year 2016) is £5,243.40…and it’s still rising! Most of this has come from John’s Garden Open Days and Hellebore Tours (the entire proceeds from entrance charges are donated). Reasonable weather on these key events so far this […]