Whitewater, the new retail plant centre centre set up by wholesale nursery Hortus Loci near Hook in Hampshire, will celebrate its official opening with a weekend of events over the Easter holiday. 

Activities include plant hunts and talks by award winning Chelsea Flower Show garden designer Jinny Blom and others, nursery tours by MD’s Robin Wallis and Mark Straver, and special weekend offers. Hog roast sandwiches from Hartley Wintney Traditional Butchers will reward purchasing customers.

Wallis and Straver opened the wholesale nursery in October 2011 and have seen it go  from strength to strength. Following a makeover, the nursery will now re-open as Whitewater Nursery and Plant Centre, serving the public as well as professional buyers. Both owners are third generation nurserymen with decades of experience between them and a penchant for “good old fashioned customer service”.

Thanks to its nursery links, Whitewater has access to well over 4000 varieties and claims to be the fastest growing horticultural wholesale nursery in the UK. They say customers will be able to get their hands on the latest plant introductions much sooner than elsewhere, and at competitive prices. Specimen sizes are also available. Hortus Loci will grow 80 percent of the plant material.

Mark and Robin have retained some of the original Whitewater staff and have hired four new team members, including a trainee currently taking his RHS exams and a fruit tree expert.

The nursery is at on the B3349 Hound Green, near Hook.

www.hortusloci.co.uk