Caerphilly Garden Centre Magazine

WELCOME

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Garden Centre Magazine for Caerphilly Garden Centre.

Inside this edition you can find a plentiful amount of information on what you can find instore, including a section on monthly garden tips. With knowledgeable and friendly staff on hand in store to help with advice or inspiration, complemented by the huge variety of stock available, you will be sure to find what you need for your upcoming garden and/or home projects. This edition also includes many different informative editorials and alongside you will find local businesses whose services may just be what you are looking for.

We have also launched a digital copy of the magazine, available to view on your smart phone instantly. Please scan the QR code, featured at the bottom of this page, and this will bring up the publication for you to view. You can also access the digital magazine at touchpoints in the garden centre. One of the most exciting features of our digital publication is that you can interact with the garden centre's social media or connect with local business websites with just a quick tap on your device.

As always, we welcome feedback on our magazine, if you have any comments you'd like to add, we would love to hear them. Please email: info@yhgmedia.co.uk

Kind regards and happy reading!

Johnathan Beveridge Magazine Editor

We are an independent, family run garden centre a short drive from Caerphilly town.

We are proud of our lovely centre and we are sure you’ll like it too. From our vast plant area to our unique gift section which contains Yankee candles and Bomb cosmetics.

We have an amazing selection of houseplants, old favourites and unusual specimens for the amateur collector.

Our plantaria is full of seasonal plants and shrubs to satisfy any gardener from novice to expert.

The Palms restaurant has a fantastic selection of tempting treats and home cooked meals from a simple tea and scone to a Sunday roast with all the trimmings.

Our fully trained members of staff are always on hand for help and advice.

Annuals

Annual plants are here-today, gone-tomorrow party girls. They may have just one season in the sun, but what a season: they flower for an incredibly long time and are invariably so spectacularly beautiful you’ll lose your heart to them.

We stock two kinds of annual in our garden centre in Nantgarw: hardy annuals to sow direct from March onwards, and half-hardies to sow under cover as they don’t like frost.

Please ask the staff in our garden centre for more information and advice about choosing and growing annuals.

Perennials

The real heart-stopping, breathtaking beauty of a garden comes from that most easy-going of all the plant groups: the perennials, generous, free-flowering plants which die down each winter only to bubble up again from spring, peaking in midsummer with a fireworks display of flowers.

Pack your garden with perennials from the huge selection in our garden centre and you’ll have something in flower for every week of the year. Here are a few tips to help you choose:

Visit the garden centre often as we have different perennials in stock according to the season. Choose whatever takes your fancy each month for a really long-lasting display.

Veg for containers

Harvesting vegetables from your garden is hugely satisfying, and you’ll revolutionise your tastebuds: food picked just minutes before it’s on your plate has a colour, flavour and crunchiness that have to be experienced to be believed.

We have everything in our Caerphilly Garden Centre to turn your garden into a haven of productivity: here’s a selection to get you started.

Seeds: most veg are grown from seeds, from tomatoes to carrots and lettuces. Take your pick from the huge range in our garden centre; we’ve also got ready-spaced seed tapes and delicious heritage vegetables for you to try.

Sets and seed potatoes: from early spring we stock seed potatoes, plus onions, shallots and garlic from sets – easy-to-handle baby bulbs to plant straight into the ground.

For the ultimate in convenience we also stock strips of baby vegetable plants ready to go straight into containers or out into the garden.

Perennial vegetables: great value for money, these include some real delicacies: in our garden centre you’ll find asparagus crowns, able to crop for 20 years, and stately globe artichokes looking as good as they taste.

Please ask the staff in our garden centre for more information and advice about growing vegetables.

House Plants

House Plants continue to rise in popularity and will brighten up any home.

As well as common varieties such as Peace lily and Yucca, we pride ourselves in our selection of unusual and often difficult to obtain species of plant.

The trend has been towards impressive and unusual foliage plants over the last few years. Flowering plants usually only look their best for a short period of time, whereas a large foliage plant makes a good long term statement piece.

We always have a large selection of foliage and flowering plants, hanging and trailing plants as well as Orchids and Cacti.

Terrariums and bottle gardens are also seeing a resurgence in popularity and whether you want to purchase a ready planted example or make and plant up your own, our house plant section has everything that you will need.

Stoneware and Pots

NO garden is complete without plant pots!

We stock a huge range of pots, glazed ceramic, terracotta, cast stone and even slate mosaic varieties can all be found outside on the edge of our Plantaria.

If you venture further into our outdoor area you will also find an amazing range of statues and stone ornaments including: Bird baths, Planters, figurines and pagodas.

We stock many colours and grades of decorative aggregates, all bagged in handy 25kg bags ready to take home.

But don’t worry we can also deliver heavy and bulky items directly to your home. (please ask staff for details)

Outdoor Plants

A warm welcome awaits at the Plant Area at Caerphilly Garden Centre and we offer a surprisingly large selection of plants, both the familiar favourites and the unexpected rarities for the plant connoisseur.

Our unrivalled a-z section is easily shopped while seasonal favourites such as Japanese Maples, Camellias and Rhododendrons are stocked in season.

Our ever changing promotional area features favourites such as Pieris ‘Forest Flame’ and Japanese Azaleas during the spring, the whole area is then filled with a profusion of cottage garden favourites into the summer before offering Autumn and Winter interest shrubs such as Skimmia later in the year.

The Seasonal bedding canopy is usually awash with colour whatever the season from flowering bulbs in the first stirrings of Spring until the last Pansies and Cyclamen of Autumn.

During the bedding season we stock a huge range of small tub and basket plants which can be used for containers, or take the easy option with our popular hanging basket kits which are colour themed for cool or hot colour schemes.

6 packs and 24 packs of bedding plants are also available in season and offer great value for those seeking to create impressively planted displays.

We stock a huge selection of ornamental trees and fruit trees. We have over 20 apple varieties from modern disease resistant strains to old heritage varieties as well as plums, cherries, gages and damsons. Soft fruit completes the collection, for those keen to ‘grow your own’ we have raspberries, currants and gooseberries to name but a few.

Roses, climbers, ferns, grasses and hedging plants all have their own dedicated areas too, so whether you have a small yard or balcony area, a vast landscaped ornamental garden or modern ’urban jungle’ style plot, we will have something for you.

Bird Care

Are you interested in attracting wildlife to your garden? Providing a good food source encourages larger numbers of birds into your garden and by feeding the birds you ensure that higher numbers of fledgling birds survive.

More birds will eat more insects, such as those which damage ornamental and edible plants, so less chemical control is needed which is better for the environment and healthier for you as well as safer for children and pets.

But where to start? We stock an extensive range of bird food and feeds which can be used to attract many species of bird.

We also stock a large range of high quality, British made bird tables which make a great centre piece for a lawn or patio.

Squirrels can sometimes also be attracted by bird food and will rapidly empty any feeders that they find, our squirrel proof feeder ranges ensure there is always plenty of food for the smaller song birds to keep them coming back.

Our bird care department also has many varieties of nest box, hedgehog houses, hedgehog food, bat boxes and insect hotels.

Caerphilly Garden Centre is your one stop shop for increasing your garden’s biodiversity.

The Palms Restaurant

The Palms Restaurant at Caerphilly Garden Centre is proud to serve good quality food and freshly ground coffee with excellent customer service. We have an Elite 5 star food hygene award, awarded for having three consecutive 5 star food standard agency awards.

Our food is made in house, we use fresh and locally sourced ingredients wherever possible and all food is available to eat in or take away.

We start the day with our breakfast menu, whether you just fancy a coffee, something light or a full English breakfast we can help you to kick start your day.

Our lunch menu has a fantastic selection of hot meals, cooked to order, such as our famous hand battered cod or home made Lasagne, we also have a children’s menu. The light bites menu has baguettes and sandwiches with hot or cold fillings as well as toasties, Paninis and Jacket potatoes.

Each week our specials board will be full of seasonal favourites to tempt you to try something new.

Sunday brings with it our ever popular traditional Sunday roast lunch menu.

Our menu includes a large selection of Vegan dishes with everything from breakfast to lunch and light bite options and even cakes and deserts, why not try one of our vegan burgers or toasted sandwiches?

In the interest of protecting our environment we have recently started using plant based Vegeware products to replace many of our single use plastics such as straws, smoothie cups, takeaway coffee cups, take away food

boxes and corresponding cutlery.

All of the waste that we generate at the restaurant is separated and recycled wherever possible.

Gifts

If you need a gift for a friend or loved one then a visit to our gift department is a must.

Our gift range includes something for everyone and we also have cards for any occasion too.

Bomb cosmetics are also a firm favourite with our customers, we have a huge range of bath bombs, soaps and gift sets all of which are hand made with natural ingredients and are vegetarian friendly.

We have a selection of new products including:

Powder UK with a range of their women’s clothing collections that are fabulous,. The bright colours with bespoke packaging make their products perfect for either gifting or simply treating yourself!

Inis. The fragrance of Ireland inspired by the beauty and energy of the Atlantic coast of Ireland. It is a truly unique fragrance made from sea minerals and seaweed.

Country Candles. Luxury scented candles, reed diffusers and wax melts. All their products are GMO, Vegan and Palm Oil Free.

Cottage Delights. A great range of award winning preserves, chutneys, sauces, pickles and sweet treats.

Silk flowers and artificial plants can brighten your room at times of year when some cut flowers are unavailable and don’t require any watering or other maintenance, our selection varies seasonally so there will always be plenty of choice.

We also have children’s gifts, books, kitchenware, wind chimes and much more so it’s worth allowing plenty of time to browse.

Core Gardening

Gardening is at the heart of our business, as can easily be seen from the extensive range of core gardening products.

High quality tools will last many years if well maintained so it’s important to choose an item that you are happy with, weight, balance and general ’feel’ of any piece of gardening equipment can make the difference between it becoming a trusty friend or just another item stuck at the back of your shed.

We offer a great selection of many fertilisers, weed control and cleaning products with organic alternatives present throughout our range.

Our trained staff are always happy to help you make an educated choice when it comes to chemicals to ensure that the products you buy are both suitable and effective.

Our range of compost includes specific blends for certain varieties of plants as well as general purpose and peat free options.

What ever your interest whether it be propagation and growing of new plants, maintaining and caring for established plants or even just general garden maintenance the right products can be found here.

T: 029 20861511

E: info@caerphillygardencentre.co.uk

Caerphilly Garden Centre, Penrhos, Nantgarw, Cardiff CF15 7UN