On To A Winner!
Award-winning Bannister Hall is coming up to a busy time in the season when root ball and bare root hedging and trees will soon be planted
For the second year in a row, Bannister Hall Landscaping Supplies & Plants Nurseries has won best stand in the over 36m2 category at the Royal Lancashire Show.
Situated in a prime position directly in front of the main entrance, the Bannister Hall stand encompassed a detailed show garden boasting a myriad of horticultural wonders from large specimen trees, beautiful perennials, delightful shrubs and elegant garden stoneware. Proving popular with visitors of all ages, this delightful show garden welcomed visitors with a winding journey along a stunning Indian sandstone block-paving pathway, leading from the show garden’s entrance beneath three Jasmine arches to arrive at a purpose-built Millboard decking area. With inbuilt seating and surrounded on all sides with colourfully fragrant planted beds, many visitors spent time relaxing and unwinding in a garden of solitude from the shows otherwise busy areas.
Indeed, this intricately stunning show garden was designed by no other than Alan Lovell, the Chairman and founder of Bannister Hall Landscaping Supplies, who 25 years prior had a unique idea to create a ‘one-stop’ landscaping supplies centre by combining a comprehensively stocked builder’s merchants with a large plant nursery boasting access to over 40,000 different plant species. Since its early beginnings, Bannister Hall Landscaping Supplies has grown to become the North West’s largest single-source supplier of landscaping materials and plants, offering both trade and retail customers a first-rate customer service, qualified horticultural expert advice, and the latest in 3D CGI garden design service to help create inspirational outdoor spaces.
Alan explains: “The project this year involved designing a multi-dimensional and inspirational show garden that incorporated a flavour of the vast array of landscaping materials, specimen trees, hedging plants and shrubs we offer at Bannister Hall. The installation of the show garden took six days and was undertaken by one of our recommended professional contractors Bedrock Landscapes, who graciously undertook the majority of the project build with fantastic results.”
Based in Higher Walton, Preston, Bannister Hall Landscaping Supplies specialises in the growing, sourcing and delivering of specimen trees and hedging plants, providing both retail and trade customers with a handy local alternative to the expensive prices found at garden centres.
Whilst Bannister Hall offers a wide variety of pot grown trees and hedging plants akin to the local garden centre, they also offer these in both root ball and bare root options, and the savings are rather significant.
Unlike pot-grown trees and hedging plants, root ball and bare root plants are grown naturally in a field and then lifted in a dormant phase at certain times of the year. This offers numerous benefits for the consumer and a highly cost-effective solution for planting a hedge or tree line, especially when covering a larger area. What’s more, Bannister Hall have their own fleet of specialised crane trucks that will deliver your hedges and trees of all sizes direct to site.
The season for root ball and bare root hedging plants and trees is now approaching, running from October to around March. Impressively, at Bannister Hall, your root ball and bare root hedging can even be pre-ordered throughout August and September with exceptional early-order discounts and with customers being assured of product availability in this high-demand period.
Indeed, it is during the winter months, that trees and shrubs enter a dormant period, which makes it an ideal time to lift them from the ground and to move them to a new area. Lifting and transporting trees in the winter gives the plants time to settle, after which, they are ready to wake up and sprout again in spring. Certainly, root ball refers to the bio-degradable hessian sack that encapsulates the ball of earth containing the root system of the plant when it has been lifted from the ground. When transported to its new location the plant and the sack containing its roots are planted as one. The process is quick and straight forward, and the success rates usually very high.
There are multiple benefits to planting hedging and trees in root balls, one of which is that they are already strong, healthy and mature plants with an established root system. This gives the plant a much better chance of survival whilst creating an ‘instant hedge’ at the size and species desired. This takes away the waiting for plants to develop and ‘knit’ into the desired density you require, and you literally have a fully grown hedge within a day of taking delivery.
Whilst bare root plants do not necessarily have the same immediate impact as the root ball alternative, come spring, there will be an abundance of thriving greenery. Bare roots come with stems of varying heights and with a healthy root system. They arrive with the root exposed but are ready for planting and with time and patience you will have a thriving hedge that will transform your garden.
At Bannister Hall, customers are able to choose their trees and hedging in a wide variety of species and sizes at a greatly reduced cost from pot grown alternatives. Furthermore, qualified horticulturalists are on hand to advise you on the best species of root ball or bare root for your landscaping project. Pre-order your hedging plants and trees from Bannister Hall today and benefit from a wide variety of choice, assured availability and incredible savings.
Bannister Hall
Potter Lane, Higher Walton
Preston PR5 4EN
01772 877087
bannisterhall.com
