苗圃沿革
H.W.Hyde 苗圃由 Herbert William Hyde 在 1926 年于英格兰创立。创立之初苗圃以蔬菜种植为主,仅少量兼种花卉;二战期间土地与大部分温室被征用生产战时蔬菜种子,只剩一座温室留作他钟爱的兰花种植。战后 David 加入父亲的事业,父子二人共同转向切花生产,主营菊花和唐菖蒲,Herbert 常带着这些切花参加地方郡展,直至 1965 年去世后 David 才停止参展,专心经营切花业务。
第三代传承与展会荣誉
如今苗圃由 David 的三个子女 Sarah、Richard 和 Elizabeth 三人共同经营,菊花和唐菖蒲早已退场,苗圃转向球根花卉、六出花与大丽花的专门化生产。2005 年第三代继承祖父参展传统,最初两次参展选在 RHS Wisley 花园,以百合作品两度斩获金奖;凭借此成绩苗圃受邀亮相举世闻名的切尔西花展,在第三次参展即完成金奖帽子戏法,创下罕见首三展皆金的纪录。此后 12 年苗圃持续参展英国各大花展,先后赢得 12 项切尔西金奖与 2012 年女王登基庆典奖章,后者由 Sarah 在当年切尔西花展上从女王陛下手中亲自接授。
迁址与新苗圃建设
2020 年初苗圃从旧址 Ruscombe 迁出,开始在西萨塞克斯郡 Rusper 小村外一处名为 Hilltop Farm 的新址重建苗圃。新址距 A264 公路约一英里,占地充足,适合长期扩种球根品类与多年生植物。疫情期间启动建圃不易,经过约三年努力,新苗圃已接近完工,逐步恢复全品类球根花卉与多年生植物的产能。
主营业务与品类
苗圃当前主营品类涵盖六出花(Alstroemeria)、大丽花(Dahlia)、百合(Lily)、郁金香(Tulips)、水仙(Narcissus)、葱属(Alliums)、雪滴花(Galanthus)、彩叶草(Coleus)及春花杂类(Miscellaneous Spring flowering),另有多年生植物与夏季花坛苗。球根自产自销,六出花同时供应花园成品植株与穴盘苗(jumbo plugs),大丽花按花型细分至球型、仙人掌型、装饰型、矮生型、流苏型、绒球型、睡莲型等多个系列,百合则覆盖东方百合杂交系、东方×喇叭、铁炮、喇叭百合等群组。
对外联系方式
苗圃日常通过网站接受邮购订单与栽培咨询,旺季提供电话订购服务。零售与邮购均围绕每年球根出货节奏排期,百合与郁金香在秋季出货,六出花则在春末发送花园成品植株。
Nursery Origins
H.W.Hyde was founded in 1926 by Herbert William Hyde. In its early years the nursery grew mainly vegetables with a few flowers on the side. During the Second World War, most of the land and greenhouses were turned over to producing vegetable seed for the war effort, leaving just one greenhouse for Herbert’s passion, which was orchids. After the war his son David joined the business and together they concentrated on cut flowers, with chrysanthemums and gladioli as the main crops. Herbert exhibited these at county shows until his death in 1965, after which David stopped showing and focused on the cut flower side of the operation.
Third Generation and Show Honours
The nursery is now run by David’s three children Sarah, Richard and Elizabeth. The chrysanthemums and gladioli are long gone, and the nursery specialises in a wide range of bulbs, alstroemeria and dahlias. In 2005 the third generation revived their grandfather’s habit of exhibiting. Their first two shows were at RHS Wisley where they won gold with lilies on both occasions. This led to an invitation to exhibit at the world-famous Chelsea Flower Show, where they completed a hat-trick of golds over their first three displays, a feat almost unheard of for new exhibitors. Over the next twelve years the nursery exhibited at most of the major UK flower shows, collecting twelve further Chelsea golds and the Queen’s Jubilee Award, which was presented to Sarah by Her Majesty at the 2012 Chelsea Show.
Relocation and New Site
In early 2020 the nursery relocated from the old Ruscombe site and began building a new nursery on Hilltop Farm just outside the small village of Rusper in West Sussex, about one mile from the A264. Setting up a new nursery during a pandemic has not been straightforward, but three years on the site is close to completion and the nursery is now back to near full capacity across its bulb and perennial ranges.
Main Business and Range
The current range covers alstroemeria, dahlia, lilies, tulips, narcissus, alliums, galanthus, coleus and miscellaneous spring flowering bulbs, plus perennials and summer bedding plants. Bulbs are grown and sold in-house, with alstroemeria available as both garden ready plants and jumbo plugs, dahlias subdivided into ball, cactus, decorative, dwarf, fimbriated, pompon and waterlily groups, and lilies spanning Oriental hybrids, Oriental x Trumpet, longiflorum and trumpet groups.
How to Get in Touch
The nursery takes mail order through the official site and offers phone ordering during the peak season. Retail and mail order both run to the bulb dispatch calendar, with lilies and tulips shipping in autumn and alstroemeria garden ready plants going out in late spring.
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