This month in the Cactus Garden

JULY 2005

  It has been extremely difficult to decide what to put for this update. As most of our regular customers will know, Terry Hewitt passed away very suddenly on April 20th. This was totally unexpected as he had been quite happily working in the nursery during the morning. Since then, Jenny [his wife] Sue [his daughter] and David [Nursery manager] have been trying to keep Holly Gate running as smoothly as possible. This has not been easy since although David, has been doing a fantastic job, Terry put in hundreds of hours caring for his plants and also doing all of the paperwork. It has taken us a while to  be able to access passwords etc. and we are now trying to catch up with everything. We would like to thank all of our friends and customers for their kind words and support, and hope that you will all continue to visit us as, we are sure this is what Terry would have wished.

We are continuing to run Holly Gate as far as possible, as normal. You can continue to order from our catalogue or we will be delighted if you can visit us at the Nursery.

On a brighter note, the Cactus Garden has been looking lovely. The Epiphyllums have been giving a lovely show, but are now mostly over. They were very late flowering this year, as the weather was so cold during May. The hard work of replanting a number of the beds in the Cactus Garden last year has really paid off and we have had some beautiful flowers on many of our plants.

The Echinopsis hybrids have already given us a spectacular show of colour, but there are hundreds of flower buds which are about to burst into another equally fantastic display.

We will try to keep the website updated, but please be patient with us for a little while longer, while we get to grips with how the technology works!

    If you are able to visit the Nursery we look forward to seeing you.

                                                                     Jenny & Sue