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Ashwood Nurseries is taking part in a Plant Heritage Hepatica Day in Carnforth, Lancashire, the highlight of which is an illustrated lecture ‘The World of Hepaticas’ by nursery owner John Massey VMH. The day begins with a visit to Glenn Shapiro’s National Collection of Hepatica at Hazelwood Farm. This impressive collection is held on behalf […]

As we say goodbye to last year’s Charity of the Year Macmillan Cancer Support, we have been celebrating our most recent total of £21,810 donated to this good cause. Nursery owner John Massey and members of the Ashwood team posed in the nursery show garden on Friday with our fund-raising total proudly displayed. We were […]

We are pleased to announce that we have chosen High Flyers as Ashwood’s Charity of the Year 2016. High Flyers is based at Pegasus House, Wombourne, Staffordshire and  is a day group supporting young adults with learning difficulties. High Flyers currently has 45 members attending and includes young adults with Autism, Down’s Syndrome and William’s […]

The total raised so far for Ashwood’s Charity of the Year Macmillan Cancer Support stands at a magnificent £20,400.01…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) and fine weather on these key events this year has ensured good […]

Once again Ashwood has been delighted to sponsor Wombourne’s Gardening Competition. This year the categories in the Gardening Competition included Best Kept Front Garden, Best Hanging Basket and (new for 2015) Best Container or group of Containers, with the criteria for all that they had to be visible from the roadside. The competition is a […]

The Tea Room at Ashwood, still basking in the glow of its first Certificate of Excellence from TripAdvisor, has scooped yet another award. The Finest Tea Rooms Award has been bestowed upon us by This England magazine in recognition of our ‘warm welcome, excellent service’ and for ‘upholding the typically English tradition of afternoon tea’. […]