• Ashwood hands over £24,859.16 to charity
    Charity of the Year

    Ashwood hands over £24,859.16 to charity

    Ashwood Nurseries has presented Beacon Centre for the Blind, a local charity dedicated to supporting people living with sight loss, with a cheque for £24,859.16. The money will be used to help fund the care and support offered to blind and visually impaired people at the Beacon’s Independent Living Centre in Sedgley. Beacon was chosen […]
  • Charity of the Year 2018 is announced
    Charity of the Year

    Charity of the Year 2018 is announced

    We are pleased to announce that our Charity of the Year 2018 is to be WINGS (Wombourne Special Needs Support Group) which supports children and young people with special needs and of a wide variety of ages and abilities. These provide an opportunity for the children and young people to socialise, make friends and have […]
  • Ashwood mourns the loss of head gardener
    Adam Greathead Award

    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 […]
  • Nursery manager is honoured by the RHS
    Ashwood Team

    Nursery manager is honoured by the RHS

    We are very proud to announce that nursery manager Tony Cartwright has been honoured with a Long Service Medal from the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) for over 50 years of service to horticulture. The medal was presented to him by nursery owner John Massey VMH on Friday August 11th in front of staff (both current […]
  • Some welcome visitors to The Wildlife Meadow
    John's Garden

    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 […]
  • Ashwood celebrates its 50th Anniversary
    News Snippets

    Ashwood celebrates its 50th Anniversary

    Ashwood Nurseries is commemorating its 50th Anniversary this year. 2017 certainly promises to be a year of both celebration and nostalgia, looking back at the milestones and achievements during the fifty years since John Massey acquired the nursery. The Early Years John’s parents bought Ashwood Nurseries in 1967 when he was still at school. John […]