{"id":15478,"date":"2022-09-29T10:11:33","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T08:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gardensillustrated.com\/?p=17476"},"modified":"2022-10-03T11:51:14","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T09:51:14","slug":"avon-bulbs-the-best-bulbs-from-the-somerset-nursery","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/gardensillustrated\/rss_feed\/avon-bulbs-the-best-bulbs-from-the-somerset-nursery\/","title":{"rendered":"Avon Bulbs: the best bulbs from the Somerset nursery"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Jason Ingram\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Thursday, 29 September 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Avon Bulbs is a long-standing, family run, mail-order nursery<\/a> specialising in bulbs for the flower garden. Owned by Chris Ireland-Jones and managed with Alan Street, it\u2019s located near South Petherton in Somerset, a stone\u2019s throw from the famous garden of the late Margery Fish at East Lambrook<\/a>. The nursery was originally set up by Walter Stag, a former UK representative for the bulb giant Van Tubergen, in 1979, and Alan joined soon afterwards. It moved twice before settling near Trowbridge on a site overlooking the River Avon, after which the nursery was named.<\/p>\n

Chris bought the nursery from Walter in 1987, but the site was proving to be difficult, and after the glasshouses<\/a> were flattened by a gale, a move seemed to be in order. Fortuitously, in the early 1990s, Chris was told about a small dairy farm, with seven acres, cattle sheds and heavy clay soil<\/a>, that was coming up for auction and he bought it. \u201cIt was less than ideal for a bulb nursery,\u201d he remembers. \u201cAlan had wanted something much lighter for his snowdrops<\/a>. There wasn\u2019t a tree<\/a> on the place, so no shade<\/a> for woodland bulbs.\u201d Thirty years on it is a very different scene.<\/p>\n

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