Dundonald Nursery

When I say that this nursery does THE best hanging baskets in Belfast, I promise you I’m not exaggerating. In fact, they’re so good they supply hundreds of other outlets like Spar and Tesco. Oh yes, this is the flower and plant kind of nursery, not the kind which looks after your children.
If you organised enough and visit the nursery around March/​April time, you can order your baskets exactly how you want them and pick them up a few weeks later. Bespoke hanging baskets if you like. But if you’re like me, you won’t get around to it until it’s too late to plant from scratch and will buy yours ‘off the peg’ and this is by no means a poorer option. The hanging baskets that are ready made up are nothing short of stunning — really full of pretty flowers and lots of hanging and trailing plants like honeysuckle. The sort of thing that helps you create a cottage garden kind of look without having to life a finger which works for me.
Prices are really reasonable given the quality and quantity of flowers and plants you get — under £30 for a fabulous basket and less if you have managed to leave in your own empty basket in advance.
Take a trip to Dundonald Nursery — you can wander through the huge greenhouses to take your pick and you an fool yourself that it’s a really warm day. Don’t leave it too late though, after mid May, there will be nothing left.