Daisy Clough Nurseries
Daisy Clough Nurseries was established in 2013 by Joanne and Peter Tate, at the site of the former Beech Grove Nurseries on Station Lane in Scorton, Lancashire. Conveniently situated just 3 miles north of the market town of Garstang just off the A6 and 3 miles south of junction 33 on the M6.
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t was acquired with the vision of setting up a small, specialised garden centre with a shop and tearoom in a particularly beautiful area next to the River Wyre. It was also envisioned that it would grow most of its own plants and concentrate on hardy perennials and grasses. The nursery/garden centre has become very well established in the last few years with customers travelling from all over the North West and beyond. A lot of the original customers have enjoyed watching it grow from very limited beginnings, through the building of a modern shop and lovely tearoom to the current expansion of outdoor areas and parking facilities. Joanne, Peter, and their team currently grow a wide range of plants, not only a huge range of hardy perennials, grasses, bedding plants and vegetable seedlings but also stock shrubs, alpines, fruit trees, fruit bushes, seeds, and house plants. The tearoom has seating for approx. 120 indoors and 120 outdoors. There
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is also an orchard where customers can sit at picnic tables or walk their dogs. Owners Jo and Pete, originally from farming backgrounds, bought the site on a wing and a prayer, seeing its potential. Jo had a garden design business and had been growing plants on a small scale to fulfil planting schemes in gardens all over Lancashire. Jo enjoyed the growing side of the business and decided to look for somewhere bigger to grow more plants. The site had two acres of glass houses, some of which were in a bad state and had to be demolished. The old boiler houses which provided heat for growing tomatoes commercially and summer bedding were out of date so were removed. This opened up the site to make way for the shop and a few years later the tearoom. There has been a nursery on the site for around a hundred years now, originally the area was an orchard for Wyresdale Hall, some heritage apple trees are still growing in the orchard today.
LANCASHIRE & NORTH WEST MAGAZINE
The last 9 years have gone so quickly at Daisy Clough, Jo and Pete are proud to say they have stuck to their original vision for the place and continue to grow most of what is sold on-site and offer gardeners a huge amount of choice and advice where it is needed. Shopping at Daisy Clough includes seeds, tools and garden equipment, homemade cakes, wine and local gins. Homewares, houseplants and a lovely range of clothing from Whitestuff, Mistral, and Nomads along with cards and gifts are also stocked. The next project is planting up some new garden areas outside the tearoom with a view to giving gardeners a few planting ideas and to see plants reaching their potential and give tearoom diners a lovely view. M Station Lane, Scorton, Lancashire PR3 1AN N 01524 587067 E info@daisyclough.com D www.daisyclough.com www.lancmag.com
