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Website last updated on 1st April 2012

CHELSEA GOLD MEDAL WINNER 2011
We did it! We got the 'hat trick' wow!
We are delighted. after such an aweful Winter. We are so thrilled.
Thanks to all our friends and family for all their help.
Also a massive thank you to all our customers for all their encouragement.

CHELSEA GOLD MEDAL WINNERS 2010 The presure is really on now for 2011 can we make it 3? lets wait and see but I do hope so, we will certainly be giving it our all

CHELSEA GOLD MEDALLIST 2009
Our first ever Chelsea
2009 we have had a GOLD MEDAL award at all shows

Great BigThank You for 2010!
What a year it has been again -
Vicky has been on the telly twice once at Chelsea and again at Hampton Court where the BBC came to visit the nursery for the day. We had a wonderful time with the film crew, and we were thrilled with the piece they did on the Hampton Court program for the BBC. So a big Thank you Guys and Kate. xx
Hope you were all watching?

Medal wise we have attained the highest medal awarded at all the show except for Malvern and Tatton where we got silver and silver gilt so really pleased with the medals this year.
We want to improve on that next year and get 100%like we did in 2009, hard to do but we will try our best.
We have won the most innavative at Cradiff with our 'Easter Egg Hunt' display (photos coming very soon) we used wonderful hand blown glass eggs made by Sarah Cable from St Helens (If you want to know more please ring me for her details)
Then we won the most innavative at Harrogate with the 'Phantom of the Opera' We used my wedding dress which was incidentally 30 years old (yes we have been married for 30 year now and still speaking!)
We used a mask made by Dave Freeman from 'Mill forge' who mades alot of our iron props for us (see 'links' to go to his website) the things Dave makes are fabulous.

We have been very lucky that we have lots of lovely loyal customer that visit us at every show they come to, so a great big thanks for to you all. xx
Also we have lots of lovely loyal customers who order from the website and catalogues and send us the most wonderful comments, please keep them coming it so nice when they come in, reasuring to know how happy you are with the plants we ship to you. So a big thanks to you all.xx

Also thanks for all your fabulous pictures of heucheras and plants you have bought from us we have them all on our wall at home for the open days etc. Please keep them coming.
Great big thanks to you all
We look forward to seeing you all again in 2011

Visiting The Nursery
Viewing at the nursery is by appointment only, please come and visit you are very welcome
Telephone 01270 820335 or email info@plantagogo.com

Talks, Private Group Nursery Visits for Clubs
Due to demand we are now pleased to offer talks and group visits to gardening clubs and groups
Also talks and tours given on the nursery to groups of 10 - 20 please email or ring for details.

New for 2011 - Nursery Workshops
Due to popular demand we have decided to open the nursery for workshops for individuals to join a small group of hopefully new friends or small groups from clubs etc
These will all be priced differently depending on the costs involved etc
In the Spring the dates and events will be posted
Please ring for futher details

Plantagogo how far have we come
Jubilee Cottage Nursery was established in 1990 so it will be 20 year in 2010!! (we cant believe it)
Vicky grew up on the family nursery A. T Yates & Son in Somerford which have grown plants for over 50 years.
Richard grew up on the family farm .
We started attending flower shows in 2000 to promote our new website www.plantagogo.com. Our first show was 'Gardeners World 'at the NEC Birmingham
In 2007 we decided to go into the floral marque to show our plants and hopefully get a few medals to promote our quality plants.
The first RHS show we did was Malvern where we got our first RHS GOLD medal of course we were thrilled.
That spured us on to greater things and this year when we attended 'The Chelsea Flower Show' for the first time and won our first ever 'Chelsea Gold' medal I cant tell you how great that felt.
In fact we have had a GOLD medal at every show we have done this year.
We are thrilled.
The pressure is on now to do it again in 2010 we will be trying our hardest ...we will have to see.
Our National Collections.
We have been collecting Heuchera, Heuchera and Tiarella for a number of years now purely as a hobby to begin with then it turned into something more when we decided to try and get a national collection. We couldnt help noticing that a number of varieties of these plants were disappearing ,as more and more new varieties came onto the market. We could see they would be lost forever!
We have been collecting and collecting and now we have 230 plus varieties of Heuchera and growning daily! ( we are goinging to need a bigger nursery!)
We got our national collection of Heucherella approved the day we came back from 'The Chelsea Flower Show' 2009 we couldnt believe it. What an excellent week.
Then on November 14th 2009 we heard that we had been given national collection status for Heucheras this has just made this year amazing.
Our collections are available to view by appointment only, where you can see and purchase plants from the nursery too.
Some of the rare varieties will be available on the website under 'Heritage collection' in the Spring 2011.
Many varieteis are only availble from us.
Most of these are only available in small quantities.

We are constantly looking for new and rare varieties to offer for sale.
We only sell plants that we would like to receive ourselves.
We hope you enjoy the website and enjoy any plants that you purchase from us.
Happy gardening
Vicky and Richard Fox

We recycle boxes where we can. We are now 50% Peat Free.