Cally Gardens

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Kevin Hughes’ Specialist Plant Nursery

With over 4,000 perennials, the borders at Cally are not only stock beds and trial grounds for the nursery, but a magnificent display for visitors. There is plenty of interest throughout the year, with good collections of Helleborus and species Paeonia in spring and early summer, Geranium at mid summer, and Agapanthus, Kniphofia and Crocosmia in late summer and autumn.

Outside of the walled garden, we are developing woodland plantings including large areas of Meconopsis, the Himalayan blue poppies, which love the conditions here.

Cally Gardens is a working nursery, specialising in unusual perennials.

In the early days many plants were obtained from specialist nurseries, here or abroad, or by exchange with other collectors.

Now most of the new plants are grown from seed from Botanic gardens worldwide and plant hunting expeditions, including our own.

Visitors to the nursery can wander amongst established plantings of several thousand varieties, and choose from a selection of several hundred in the sales area.

The illustrations are by Clare Melinsky

www.claremelinsky.co.uk