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STOP PRESS…a Platinum Medal has been awarded to Ashwood Nurseries at Gardeners’ World Live! Ashwood Nurseries is exhibiting at NEC Gardeners’ World Live 2023 with a special exhibit that pays homage to nursery owner John Massey VMH, nurseryman, plant breeder, Chelsea gold medallist and creator of ‘John’s Garden’. The stand (FM33 in the Floral Marquee) […]

The Ashwood Charitable Trust is delighted to announce that it has awarded the first Adam Greathead Award to Matthew Padbury, an aspiring young horticulturist who impressed the trustees with his exceptional passion for plants and strong desire to hone his skills of good gardening practice. Nursery owner John Massey explains, in his own words, the […]

Nursery owner and renowned hepatica expert John Massey is proud to announce that his book My World of Hepaticas is to be published in mid-June. Described as ‘a love letter to a single genus’, My World of Hepaticas documents a lifetime’s work studying, breeding and growing these irresistible plants. For anyone who has a passion […]

Ashwood Nurseries and John’s Garden have been awarded a Tripadvisor Travellers’ Choice Award. Travellers’ Choice recognizes businesses that earn consistently great user reviews, collected in a single year from travellers around the world on Tripadvisor. The awards take into account the quality and quantity of traveller reviews and, as Tripadvisor says: ‘the hallmark of winners […]

Husband and wife team Tony and Barbara Cartwright are celebrating over 100 years of combined service at Ashwood Nurseries. Both have been honoured with a Long Service Medal from the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) for 50 years of service to horticulture. Nursery owner John Massey VMH recently presented Barbara with her medal in front of […]

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 […]