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The Nursery Shop Opening Times:
1st March to 30th September 10am - 5pm Monday-Saturday and Bank Holidays. Sundays 10.30am - 3.30pm. Closed Easter Sunday.
1st October to 31st October 10am - 4pm Monday - Saturday. Closed Sunday.
1st November to 28th February 10am - 3pm Monday- Friday. Closed weekends. We also close over the Christmas and New Year period.
Office opening hours Monday - Friday (exc. Bank Holidays) 8.30am -12.30pm. Outside of office hours please email or leave a message and we will get back to you asap.
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Plan Your Visit
Visit Us - Hardy's Cottage Garden Plants
We love our plants and also enjoy sharing our plant know-how with fellow gardeners. If you prefer to see, touch and smell the flowers before you buy your plants, then our Nursery Shop is the place to visit. Well behaved dogs welcome on short leads.
What's in stock in the Nursery Shop
If you visit us you may find plants which are not currently available on the website - they may be too tall or just too delicate to put in a box. Download our weekly plant list
Finding Hardy's — Plan Your Journey
Hardy's Cottage Garden Plants is within easy reach of Winchester, Newbury, Andover and Basingstoke, all less than a 25 minute drive. And, we are only around 47 minutes away from Salisbury.
If you're planning to visit us and are travelling by coach please contact us first.
Please Note - We advise you to check our opening hours before travelling.
Buy Online, Collect from Hardy's
If you live in our area and would like to collect your plants rather than have them delivered you can convert your order to allow you to 'Pickup' from Hardy's Cottage Garden Plants. follow this link for more information about mail order
Food & Refreshments
Hardy's is a traditional working nursery — we don't have an on-site café or refreshments. The Watership Down pub is at the bottom of our lane, and both Overton and Whitchurch have a great selection of places to eat and drink, all just a short drive away.
Talks & Workshops
Throughout the gardening year we hold seasonal talks at the nursery. Rosy picks her favourite perennials from the nursery and talks about their attributes - how best to grow them, combine them with other plants to create great planting combinations and how to avoid common pitfalls.
We also invite you to join Rosy Hardy here at the nursery for one or all of her hands on, practical propagation workshops. Rosy covers a variety of methods to propagate herbaceous perennials.
These workshops are aimed at beginner and more experienced gardeners who wish to learn the basic principles and practices associated with plant propagation in a relaxed and friendly environment. Book Now.
For information about booking please read our terms of service
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For Trade Customers
Trade enquiries
As well as providing plants to the public, we work with many professional gardeners, garden designers and landscape contractors and we warmly welcome trade enquiries
We really enjoy working with our trade customers, getting to know you, understanding what you need and how we can help.
We aim to be approachable, responsive and easy to work with. To help you, we offer a year round cash and carry service from the nursery, but are also happy to collate your orders with a bit of notice. Apologies, but during our main show season, May to July, deliveries by van can be very limited, but do talk to us and we will try to help. Alternatively we can deliver by overnight courier.
We issue regular 'Current Lines' lists to help you plan future projects and aim to turn around quotations within three working days.
Working on an eco-sensitive project? Please be rest assured, we grow our perennials in a totally peat-free medium from Melcourt. As a result head gardeners from National Trust properties have become regular clients.
For full Trade Terms and Conditions, please contact us. Or even better, pop in and visit, we would love to show you around.
Plants for Show Gardens
Over the last twenty years, we have been chuffed to bits to work with some great garden designers, supplying them with plant material that went on to be showcased in their gardens at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show and Hampton Court Flower Show, plus of course, our very own Rosy Hardy's 'Forever Freefolk' show garden in 2016.
Many have become good friends and repeat customers.
Contact
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Hardy's Cottage Garden Plants
Priory Lane Nursery
Freefolk Priors
Whitchurch
Hampshire
RG28 7FA
Plant Passport No.21762
01256 896533