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Is your garden lacking colour? Panic not - we have the answer! Pot fulls of seasonal dahlias, echinacea, rudbeckia, aster, helenium, phlox, salvias and many other herbaceous perennials now in full flower and ready to plug those gaps. Oh - and don't forget the grasses - we have a wonderful selection now coming into their own.

Herbaceous specialists - over 1500 varieties - many choice and rare, some grown from wild-collected seed.
* Large and interesting selection of shrubs, roses, climbers, trees, fruit etc
* Professional advice from enthusiastic plants-people - over 65 years collective experience
* Attractive, gently sloping site more like a large garden than a garden centre
* Established in 1983 by Alan Bidwell (I'm still hanging in there!)
* A 4 acre wildlife meadow with wonderful views across the valley
Ashdon is a charming conservation village set within the rolling hills of NW Essex the borders of both Cambridgeshire and Suffolk only a (long) stones throw away. The old market town of Saffron Walden is 4 miles to the west - click for a suggested route through if coming from the London or the west.

Mail orders: we are now accepting orders for dispatch from early September.

Our normal opening hours :
Monday to Saturday - 8.30am to 5.00pm
Sunday & Bank Holidays - 9.30am to 4.30pm

Updated: May 2018