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  • John’s Garden ‘virtual visit’ for National Garden Scheme

    John’s Garden ‘virtual visit’ for National Garden Scheme

    John’s Garden at Ashwood Nurseries is considered one of the finest private gardens in the UK. The private garden of nursery owner and Chelsea gold medallist John Massey, it has a huge plant collection and many innovative design features in a beautiful canal-side setting. Lockdown restrictions during the Covid-19 crisis sadly has meant that the […]
  • John’s Garden: subject of a new gardening series

    John’s Garden: subject of a new gardening series

    John’s Garden at Ashwood Nurseries is to be the subject of a new TV Gardening Series ‘Great British Gardens Season by Season’ with Carol Klein. This prestigious new series, due to be screened on Channel 5 in early Summer, takes us on ‘a guided tour, throughout the seasons, of four of the most beautiful and […]
  • John’s Garden: National Garden Scheme presentation

    John’s Garden: National Garden Scheme presentation

    John’s Garden at Ashwood Nurseries is celebrating ten years of opening for the National Garden Scheme.  This was marked with a special presentation on our NGS Open Day in April, when we were delighted to welcome John and Sue Weston, the County Organisers for Staffordshire, Birmingham and West Midlands. John and Sue presented nursery owner […]
  • Ashwood mourns the loss of head gardener

    Ashwood mourns the loss of head gardener

    It is with great sadness that we announce the sudden death of Adam Greathead, aged 27, who passed away peacefully in his sleep in the early hours of Sunday October 29th. Adam was head gardener to nursery owner John Massey and a familiar and very popular figure with visitors to John’s Garden. In the three […]
  • Some welcome visitors to The Wildlife Meadow

    Some welcome visitors to The Wildlife Meadow

    Situated next to the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal, The Wildlife Meadow together with John’s Garden offer great opportunities for spotting Kingfishers as they flash past showing their striking blue and orange colouring. To enable us and our visitors to admire them up close we have made some careful additions to the canal-side in the Wildlife […]
  • Daily Mail features John’s Garden at Ashwood

    Daily Mail features John’s Garden at Ashwood

    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 […]