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The region’s largest nursery, Selmes Garden Centre, offer a huge range of plants and gardening supplies for your winter gardening needs with very knowledgeable staff that can help you plant the right greenery at exactly the right time.

“Winter is a great time to be in the garden,” says General Manager, Angel Cooper. “It’s the key time to prepare your garden for year-round success. Right now is the time to get garlic, shallots and early potatoes in the ground or fill your garden with winter colour by planting polyanthus, pansies and violas.”

Wintertime is the perfect season for planting trees and Selmes certainly has a wide range to choose from.

“Also new stocks of roses will be arriving in just another week or so, so you’ll want to get in quick as they’re very popular!” excellent gardening and plant retail services.

If you are having any issues in your garden, the friendly and experienced team are happy to help as best they can.

Selmes aspires to make a significant difference in the lives of not only its employees but also their families and the wider community.

The last twelve months have been very exciting and challenging for the team with lots of positive changes happening, says Angel.

“Supported by volunteers, Selmes is truly Marlborough’s Community Nursery that celebrates neurodiversity and inclusion. There is a lot of new energy and interest in the work that we are doing which will lead to more opportunities for us to have more impact in our community.”

The garden centre currently provides employment for eight people with disabilities, and the team plan to increase this number by expanding their nursery production in the next few months.

“We are also initiating a training program to provide job skills for the disabled in all garden centre related tasks.

“People bring photos as well as cuttings into the garden centre seeking advice from everything including disease and pest management to proper placement and the right nutrients.”

Established in 2008, the centre was set up to provide employment opportunities for people with disabilities, while providing the public with

“We recently received two grants, one from Pelorus Trust and one from Pub Charities, that has allowed us to purchase a new tractor that will be more accessible to train disabled staff.”

Located at 141 Batty’s Rd on the outskirts of Blenheim, Selmes Garden Centre is open seven days a week from 9am –4:30pm on weekdays and 9am -4pm on weekends.