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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 […]

The Brain Tumour Charity is to be Ashwood’s Charity of the Year 2019. 102,000 people in the UK are living with a brain tumour. The survival rate of only 14% is one of the poorest of all cancers and brain tumours remain the biggest cancer killer of children. Lack of funding for research means that […]

We’re delighted to announce that we’ve scooped a Gold medal and The President’s Award for our hellebore exhibit at RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Nursery owner John Massey VMH and the Ashwood team shared an exhilarating moment  on results day at Chelsea when it was revealed that not only had they achieved a much coveted Gold […]

Ashwood’s hellebore exhibit at RHS Chelsea 2018 was a landmark in our long history of plant breeding.

The countdown to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show has begun and the tension is building at Ashwood as we prepare for our hellebore exhibit (Stand GPA/130) in the Great Pavilion:  these beautiful early Spring-flowering herbaceous plants are making their debut this year, the first time that hellebores have been shown as a single exhibit at […]

Ashwood Nurseries is planning to exhibit hellebores at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show this year, the first time ever that these beautiful Spring-flowering herbaceous plants have been shown as a single exhibit at this prestigious event. Nursery owner John Massey VMH and Ashwood’s hellebore breeder Kevin Belcher are masterminding the project, aiming to show off […]