Garden centres keen to raise money and awareness for the vital work of the horticultural industry charity Perennial can now order three fundraising plants from Wyevale Nurseries for summer delivery (2025).
Hereford-based Wyevale Nurseries’ 2025 Retailers’ Promotional catalogue includes an easy-to-grow hydrangea and two wildlife attracting salvias, which it hopes will sell well to help raise thousands for the charity.
Wyevale Nurseries’ Managing Director, Andy Johnson, says: “We’re delighted this month (April) to be officially launching our 2025 Plants for Perennial collection, which can be ordered now and will be available for garden centres to sell to consumers in June. Our three plants are part of the Plants for Perennial collaborative set-up between the charity and four major wholesale nurseries, including us, here in Herefordshire and Worcestershire.
“The scheme is designed to raise awareness and funds to support all those who work with plants, flowers, grass or trees. These are the people who help nurture, create and tend the plants and green spaces that help boost everyone’s wellbeing and health.
“This year, garden centres can order our Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Cherry Explosion’, which we launched at the 2023 Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) National Plant Show, the first shrub to be included in the range, and our Salvia gregii Cuello Pink and Salvia gregii Cuello White.”
Garden Centre Sales Manager at Wyevale Nurseries, Colin Stanley, who has been heavily involved in the fundraising initiative, explains: “Each plant sold will be helping to raise essential funds and awareness for Perennial, which supports people working in, and retired from, our industry. As part of the Plant for Perennial promotion, our plants will have branded with Perennial linked picture labels and will be in taupe kerbside recyclable pots.”
The Plants for Perennial collection also includes Dianthus ‘Pink Celebration’ and Fuchsia ‘Waltz Jubilteen’ from Allensmore Nurseries, Nemesia ‘Peaches and Cream’ from The Bransford Webbs Plant Company and Clematis ‘Prince George’ from New Leaf Plants.
Perennial Corporate Partnership Manager, Phil Swainston, explains: “We’re delighted the Plants for Perennial scheme continues to go from strength to strength. We’d like to say a massive thank you to Allensmore Nurseries, The Bransford Webbs Plant Company, New Leaf Plants and Wyevale Nurseries, as well as all the garden centres that stock these beautiful plants and the gardeners who buy them”
