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Nurseries 2019-20 Weasdale nurseries 2019-20 Weasdale Weasdalenurseries weasdale nurseries ltd newbiggin on lune kirkby stephen cumbria CA17 4LX telephone: 015396 23246 fax: 015396 23277 email: [email protected] 2019-20 website: www.weasdale.com Planting Tables CONVERSION CHART Use this table to establish the number of trees which will be required if square-planted at the spacings shown. The following conversion chart should allow speedy conversion of the metric sizes used in the catalogue. Spacing Trees per Trees per Spacing Trees per Trees per (ft.) acre hectare (m.) acre hectare IMPERIAL-METRIC 3 x 3 4840 11960 1 x 1 4047 10000 4-8” 10-20cm C\v-1’ 22-30cm 6-8’ 180-240cm 4 x 4 2722 6726 1.2 x 1.2 2810 6944 6-12” 15-30cm 1-1Z\x’ 30-45cm 8-10’ 240-300cm 5 x 5 1742 4304 1.4 x 1.4 2064 5102 9-15” 22-37cm 1Z\x-2’ 45-60cm 10-12’ 300-360cm 6 x 6 1210 2990 1.5 x 1.5 1798 4444 12-18” 30-45cm 2-3’ 60-90cm 1Z\v” 32mm 7 x 7 889 2196 1.8 x 1.8 1249 3086 18-24” 45-60cm 3-4’ 90-120cm 1Z\x” 38mm 8 x 8 680 1680 2 x 2 1011 2500 24-36” 60-90cm 4-5’ 120-150cm 24” 60cm 9 x 9 538 1329 2.5 x 2.5 647 1600 Z\x-C\v’ 15-22cm 5-6’ 150-180cm 30” 75cm 10 x 10 436 1077 3 x 3 450 1111 12 x 12 302 746 3.6 x 3.6 312 772 NB: Please use these figures as a rough guide only. Whilst they may be mathematically correct, For your further interest: ground conditions will result in planting densities which will vary from plot to plot. 1 Hectare = 10,000 sq. metres = 100m x 100m 1 Acre = 4840 sq. yds. or 4 roods or 10 sq. chains = 10 x (22 yds. x 22 yds.) Use this table to calculate the number of plants needed to plant a hedge at any given planting distance. HEDGE LENGTH (feet) 1’ 2’ 3’ 4’ 5’ 6’ 7’ 8’ 9’ 10’ 20’ 30’ 40’ 50’ 60’ 70’ 80’ 90’ 100’ 200’ 300’ 400’ 500’ 600’ 700’ 800’ 900’ 1000’ 3” 4 8 12 16 20 24 28 32 36 40 80 120 160 200 240 280 320 360 400 800 1200 1600 2000 2400 2800 3200 3600 4000 4” 3 6 9 12 15 18 21 24 27 30 60 90 120 150 180 210 240 270 300 600 900 1200 1500 1800 2100 2400 2700 3000 6” 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 1600 1800 2000 9” 1 3 4 5 7 8 9 11 12 13 26 40 53 66 80 93 106 120 133 266 400 533 666 800 933 1066 1200 1333 12” 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000 15” 1 2 3 4 5 6 6 7 8 16 24 32 40 48 56 64 72 80 160 240 320 400 480 560 640 720 800 18” 1 2 2 3 4 4 5 6 6 12 20 26 33 40 47 53 60 66 133 200 266 333 400 466 533 600 666 21” 1 1 2 2 3 4 4 5 5 11 17 23 28 34 40 45 51 57 114 171 228 285 342 400 451 514 571 24” 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500 27” 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 8 13 17 22 26 31 35 40 44 88 133 171 222 266 311 355 400 444 Planting Distance 30” 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 4 8 12 16 20 24 28 32 36 40 80 120 160 200 240 280 320 360 400 36” 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 6 10 13 16 20 23 26 30 33 66 100 133 166 200 233 266 300 333 48” 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 5 6 10 12 15 17 20 22 25 50 75 100 125 150 175 200 225 250 (spacing between plants) in inches (spacing between 60” 1 1 1 1 1 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200 Example: to find how many plants will be needed to plant a hedge 458 ft. long at 18 inch spacings, add together the numbers found on the 18 inch row which correspond to the 400 ft. (266) + 50 ft. (33) + 8 ft. (5). This will give a total of 304 plants for the required hedge. If planning a hedge with double rows for greater wind or stock resistance, simply double up the total reached. 131546 cover 2019 limeflower.indd 2 19/10/2018 15:19 Season 2018-19 Dear Reader 58th edition of the catalogue from the Growers with Altitude Welcome to Weasdale Nurseries in Cumbria’s Howgill Fells. Our north-facing site at 850ft (270m) above sea level means that we endure quite trying growing conditions, with a short growing season but usefully long sales/lifting season that normally extends to the end of April in most years. In our colour pages, we illustrate the care we take in packaging our plants to ensure their safe arrival with you, the customer; no mere bundling into a cardboard box and hoping for the best. Our parcels are quite possibly like no others you have received and are one reason why we can send our trees anywhere with complete confidence. You can find out more on our website. This year we have brought a small container bed into use and so this means that we can now offer a range of plants for sale during the summer months, but these are for collection only during the growing season, requiring dormancy and leaf-drop before we can mail-order them. The catalogue is broken down into sections: Forest Trees / Broadleaved Specimen Trees / Conifers / Hedging / Fruit / Sundries and each section is in alphabetical order by the botanical (ie Latin) names. We know that many find these daunting at first and so there is a common name index at the back with the common names shown alongside the Latin names. Our website sits alongside our catalogue as a shop window, but please do telephone with any enquiries – a quick phone call can cover so much more ground than an email or web research and we do actually like to talk to our customers. Dig out that little pad of “Post-It” notes and a red pen and start planning your 2018-19 planting scheme, knowing that we’re waiting to hear from you. Yours sincerely Andrew Forsyth 131546 Weasdale Catalogue 2018-19.indd 3 24/10/2018 11:41 Contents Frequently Asked Questions .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 7 Forest Trees .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 9 Broadleaved Trees and Shrubs ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 12 The Art of Good Mail Order Packing ............................................................................................................................................................ facing page 34 Weasdale Aerial View ........................................................................................................................................................................................facing page 35 Conifers ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 78 Hedging Plants .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 98 Tree-Protection Gallery ......................................................................................................................................................................................facing page 98 Product Gallery ...................................................................................................................................................................................................facing page 99 Fruit Trees ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 104 Sundries ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 113 Books and Audio ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 119 Methods and Terms of Business ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 120 Useful Information .................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 124 Glossary of Horticultural Terms ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 125 Common Name Index .......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 126 131546 Weasdale Catalogue 2018-19.indd 4 24/10/2018 11:41 Contents To New Customers As a mail order nursery in a remote rural area, the main core of our workload Frequently Asked Questions .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 7 is geared to the arrival of business by mail, email and phone, and to packing Weasdale Nurseries were started in 1950, located at the northern edge of the and despatching trees
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