By Iona Milne Home Benedict Pollard is a supplier of ‘oaklings’ grown from ancient, veteran or characterful oaks, and for the last 2 years, some 250 of his oak saplings have been growing here at Nicholsons nursery. There are two native oak species in the UK - Quercus robur (Common/Pedunculate/’English’ Oak) and Quercus petraea (Sessile Read more »
Dated: 30th June 2021 At Nicholsons we are very fortunate in that we have been able to continue our core business throughout the pandemic but, like everyone, we have also had time to reflect and reconsider our purpose. Our company ambition is clear – to plant trees at scale to mitigate Climate Change Read more »
By George Griffiths On my first day working at Nicholsons, I asked a member of the Arb team what we were going to be doing. The reply I received was, “Cutting up trees and putting them through a chipper!” This highly skilled and professional team do so much more than just this simple sentence Read more »
By Jack Lawson Whether you are keeping cherished family pets in or the rest of the world out, fences can offer a myriad of choices and conundrums. It is not necessarily easy to decide on which materials to use, how high to go, the purpose of the fence and how much to spend. We Read more »
At Nicholsons, we have been aspiring to reach peat-free production for more than a decade and have been in awe of institutions like the National Trust who have insisted on peat-free supply for many years. Research by DEFRA in 2018/19 showed that across the UK on average, plant nurseries have only reduced peat usage Read more »
By David Kurita-May A garden that has been designed using Feng Shui principles seeks to capture the environment’s natural rhythms and the spiritual equality between man and nature. Eastern culture recognises the oneness of all living things and how energy, or chi, needs to flow smoothly, both through our surroundings and through ourselves. Read more »
Nicholsons are very active in supporting The Trees in The Wild program, based in the Maasai Mara region of Kenya. The programme forms part of the Enonkishu Conservancy, whose vision is one of culturally relevant and community-led conservation. Trees in the Wild is an ecological restoration project aimed at restoring degraded land within the Read more »
