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Plants and shrubs
Bedding, perennials, shrubs, fruit trees and hedging, most of it grown or hardened off here, with what it wants written on the label.
Bedding from £3.50 a tray, perennials from £5.50, shrubs from £9.
What we sell
Six things on one hill.
The benches, the barn, the pots, the lean-to, the tree yard and the van. Each of them has a page with the prices and the things we would tell you at the till.
All six
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Compost and bark
Peat-free compost, soil improver, topsoil, ericaceous and bark, by the 50 litre bag or the 800 litre bulk bag, with a calculator to work out how much.
Peat-free compost £6.50 for 50 litres, four for £22.
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Pots and planters
Frost-proof terracotta from Italy, glazed pots from a Vietnamese pottery we have used for twenty years, and larch planters built to your measurements in our shed.
Terracotta from £4, glazed from £14, made-to-measure larch planters from £85.
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The Lean-to Café
A small café in the glass lean-to: soup from the kitchen garden, Welsh rarebit, home-baked cakes and tea in a pot. Dogs are welcome at the outside tables.
Soup and bread £6.50, rarebit £7.50, tea and a slice of cake £5.50.
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Christmas trees
Welsh-grown Nordmann and Fraser firs, cut in the last week of November, freshly sawn at the base, netted and put in the car for you. Wreaths, stands and delivery too.
Nordmann from £32 at four feet to £95 at eight.
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Delivery
Our own van, Tuesday to Saturday: plants, bags and bulk bags around Bedwas, Caerphilly, Machen, Ystrad Mynach and up the Rhymney valley.
Free over £75 within five miles.
Prices
The common ones, as on the labels.
Peat-free compost
50 litres£6.50
Our own blend. Four bags for £22, carried to the car.
Bulk bag compost
800 litres£75
Delivered free within five miles; about sixteen bags' worth.
Medium bark
70 litres£7.50
Three for £20. A bag covers about a square metre, 7cm deep.
Hardy shrub
3 litre pot£12
From £9. With a one-year replacement when you keep the label.
Bedding tray
twelve plants£3.50
Grown here. Six trays for £18 in May.
Nordmann fir
six feet£58
From the last week of November, netted and in the car.
And the rest
- Delivery within five miles£8, free over £75
- Delivery to twelve miles£15
- A pot planted up for you£5 plus plants
- Screened topsoil, bulk bag£88 delivered
- Larch planter, two metres£160
- Christmas tree collection, January£5
Open every day but three, on the hill above Bedwas.
Bring a photograph of the bed or a leaf in a sandwich bag. Free parking for sixty cars, soup in the lean-to and a van for anything that will not fit in yours.