News Spring 2012

As always, in addition to our comprehensive range, we have a superb selection of new varieties lined up including Olearia Moondance, Physocarpus Midnight and as always, thousands and thousands of the latest Terra Nova Heuchera, Tiarella and x-Heucherella varieties.

It is always advisable to order early and remember we deliver FREE on orders of just a single trolley (28 trays) weekly across the UK.

Seiont Nurseries and Van Vliet New Plants

Over the past 5 years we at Seiont Nurseries have increased our sales of young hardy nursery stock liners considerably. Most of the increase has been in quality new plant varieties, which are the lifeblood of our industry and for which we are well known for.

For 10 years a good part of our range has consisted of varieties from across the globe, managed by Van Vliet New Plants. Sales of these items have developed to a point where both companies have agreed to work closer on their development.

As of 7^th December 2011 Seiont will be responsible for the ongoing development of the existing Van Vliet portfolio of plants and also any future additions to the range.

It will be our aim to create and maintain a tight network of propagation nurseries to supply the appropriate UK retail plant supply chains with the new products, which are in demand and are British grown.

All the main administration will remain with the Van Vliet office in The Netherlands; we at Seiont will be issuing sub-licence agreements, but apart from that, as always, it will be the plants themselves that will be our main focus.

It will not only be our remit, but our responsibility to introduce and co-ordinate the propagation and production of these varieties with the best possible growers for these crops, we therefore will not be seeking any commercial advantage by keeping them to ourselves, in fact we may not necessarily be stocking commercial quantities of all the range ourselves. We will only grow what we are good at !!

Woodland Barn Range

Back in late 2010 we took over the range of varieties previously developed and grown by Tony and Sylvia at Woodland Barn Nurseries.

The production of tissue plants has been moved to our UK based laboratory, and we will be in a position to continue production of these items during 2012 / 2013. Unfortunately there will be a break in the production; however we are able to offer our usual range during July and August 2012 subject to availability.

We have two lists on our website (click here for lists), if you would like to enquire about varieties, please could you give an indication as to the quantities you may require, we can then action these lines.

We are aiming to eventually produce all the Rhododendrons that Woodland Barn offered and will keep customers informed.

There has been an overwhelming amount of enquiries about the Daphne varieties, we have tissue culture in place but it is early days as yet and will need time to test this production, again we will keep all interested customers informed.

In the meantime if you require any further information on these or any other items in our range, please do not hesitate to contact Julie or Paul in the sales office.