Contact/Find Us

Neil and Sue Huntley

Hartside Nursery Garden
near Alston
Cumbria
CA9 3BL

Tel or Fax: 01434 381372

For enquiries regarding Hartside Nursery and our Plants email us at;

enquiries@plantswithaltitude.co.uk

For enquiries regarding our Holiday Cottages email us at;

ghyllburn@plantswithaltitude.co.uk

Contact/Find Us.
Hartside Nursery Garden is an Alpine Plant Nursery specialising in propagating, growing and selling rare and unusual plants from around the world.
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Opening Times

The Nursery will be open in 2024 on the Weekends of 27th – 28th April; 25th – 26th May; 29th – 30th June; 27th – 28th July; 24th – 25th August, September 21st – 22nd and the 19th – 20th October.

We will be open 11.30am – 4.00pm on our “Open Days”

At all other times by Appointment – please give several days notice. A list of the plants you are looking for is helpful before you arrive.

To make an appointment contact us by phone or email.

Check the recent “Facebook Posts” for our latest news and the “Events” page to see where we are attending Plant Fairs, Alpine Shows etc.

How to Find Us

The Entrance to our Nursery Car Park is located off the main A686 Alston to Penrith Road, one and a half miles South West of Alston on the Penrith Road - Please Note that many sat nav's do not always direct you to the correct entrance as there are several properties with the same Post Code. Please enquire about a different entrance if staying in one of our Holiday Cottages.

Crocus banaticus

The famous “Iris flowered Crocus” with lilac-purple flowers from October till December. A woodland species which prefers a damp garden spot. Continue Reading

Primula ‘Tantallon’. A wonderful and showy, but fairly easy hybrid, Primula whitei x Primula edgeworthii which is rarely offered for sale. The rich lavender-blue flowers appearing above the heavily silvered foliage in the early spring, sometimes now soon after the new year. Forms good clumps after several years which split well to spread them around.… Continue Reading

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Hartside Nursery Garden, near Alston, Cumbria CA9 3BL

Tel or Fax: 01434 381372