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  • ploughing for new hedge planting
    12 December 2019

    Mud on the Tyres and Ploughing

    We’ve been getting some mud on the tyres this week. We’ve been out in the tractor getting a bit of ploughing done in our open ground nursery ready for planting our next crop of hedge plants. Our land is rested between crops to allow the ground to recover and usually we plant a cover crop that helps put a lot of goodness back into the soil before we plant our next crop of hedge plants.
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  • Surrey Hills Trade Mark
    6 November 2019

    Surrey Hills Trade Mark

    We are delighted to announce that CGJ Mathias & Son Nurseries have been awarded the Surrey Hills Trade Mark, a new accreditation and a mark of local provenance and quality. The award promotes the very best of what Surrey has to offer and celebrates those organisations of high quality that reflect.
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  • Box topiary
    30 May 2019

    Box Topiary For Style In The Garden

    Box topiary is an excellent way to add feature to your garden. Box (otherwise known by its Latin name, Buxus sempervirens) grows with very small green round leaves in a very dense habit so it can be shaped and trained...

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  • Pleached trees from Hedges online
    4 February 2019

    Pleached Trees to New Development Site

    One of our increasingly popular forms of hedging is pleached trees. Pleaching is the art of creating a raised hedge screen and can be a particularly effective way to add a green visual barrier above wooden fence panels.
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  • Portugal laurel
    17 January 2019

    More Happy Customers - Portuguese Laurel

    We love seeing photos from happy customers. This one was provided recently by a customer who bought Portuguese Laurel hedging from us recently and look how good it looks! Prunus lusitanica is commonly known as Portuguese Laurel or Portugal Laurel....

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  • Euonymus Hedge Display for Herb Garden
    27 November 2018

    Euonymus hedge for new herb garden

    A customer of ours was looking to create a new herb garden and wanted to have the sections of the herb garden outlined by low hedges to create distinct sections. Whilst we weren’t able to supply the herbs ourselves, we...

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  • daily mail hedge article
    20 November 2018

    The Daily Mail's mystery hedge trimmer

    Hedges can be controversial and can lead to disputes between neighbours if not trimmed properly, although fortunately these cases are extremely rare. It doesn’t take a lot of work to keep a hedge neatly trimmed and for the vast majority...

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  • Waverley BIG Awards
    31 October 2018

    Finalists at Waverley BIG Awards 2018

    We are delighted to announce that CGJ Mathias & Son Nurseries were nominated as a finalist in the Farnham Presidents Award category of the Waverley BIG Awards. BIG stands for Business Innovation and Growth. The judging criteria were looking to...

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  • We've been root trimming!
    16 October 2018

    We've been root trimming!

    With the good weather last week, we took the opportunity to root trim our open ground nursery. This helps make the roots of all of our plants thick and bushy and much better for transplanting. It also helps to reduce...

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