Vicky and Richard plantagogo
Website last updated on 5th February 2012
Plantagogo how far have we come
Jubilee Cottage Nursery was established in 1990 so it will be 22 years this year!! (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 decide to started growing plants and set up our little nursery (which it still is only 1 acre).
We had no idea that we would eventually show plants at the most prestigous flower show in the world 'The Chelsea Flower Show' in fact we never would have thought any of the following would happen.
We started attending flower shows in 2000 to promote our new website www.plantagogo.com. Internet sales were far from big in those day but we saw an opening.
Our first show was 'Gardeners World 'at the NEC Birmingham where we took a plot in the plant mall. After that encouraging start we did lots of other shows outside in the plant plots and malls etc
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 in 2009 were invited to show at 'The Chelsea Flower Show' for the first time and won a 'Chelsea Gold' medal I cant tell you how great that felt.
The following year 2010 was golden, we attained Gold at every show we did!
Once again in 2011 we had another RHS golden year too.
We are thrilled.
The pressure is on now to do it again in 2012 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 hold The 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 340 plus varieties of Heuchera and growning daily! ( we are going to need a bigger nursery!)
We got our first 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 our Heuchera collection this just made 2009 an amazing year for us.
We always wanted to hold The National Collections for all three genus as they are closley related it just seemed the right thing to do.
So we were thrilled when at the end of 2011 we recieved the news that we had National Collection stautus for our Tiarellas collection too.
Our 3 National Collections are available to view by appointment only, (due to show commitments etc) and on the 4 open days we hold each year. (see show dates and calender on the tabs on the left hand side bar)
Where you can see and purchase plants from the nursery too.
Some of the rare varieties will be available on the website under 'HeritageCcollection' on the website.
We will propagate to order if there is something that you want and we dont have it for sale if it is in the collection. (Not if it has a PBR thought) Just ask Vicky or Richard for details about this service.
Many older varieties are only availble from plantagogo.
Some varieties only available in small quantities.
We are constantly looking for new and rare varieties to offer for sale.
We only sell and ship 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
If you want to know how it all began fully and about our passion for heucheras ask about the talks we do for Gardening clubs and groups or look at the talks section.
We recycle boxes where we can. We are now 50% Peat Free.
Abbreviations etc
(PP) (PBR)means plants protected. Propogation prohibited for sales.
A.G.M. is the award that the RHS award to some plants for outstanding qualities.
New in our catalogue at the side means new to our catalogue not a new variety.
New introduction for 2012 means completly new plant for 2012.
:) means smiley face
lol means laugh out loud
