The Exotic Garden Blog

A subtropical garden in a temperate climate that defies being in a city.

New Video: New growth on the Tree Ferns in the Exotic Garden

Taking a look at the tree ferns growing in the Exotic Garden

New Video: How to protect your Hostas from slugs and snails

Have a look at our latest video for growing Hostas in containers, and protecting them against slugs and snails to get a fantastic show this summer.

The first new Exotic Garden videos now online!

This is the first of a series of videos we are going to make here at the Exotic Garden in Norwich that I am producing with Chris Ridley and his new Canon 5D MK2. Please bear with us as we hopefully become more professional in the weeks and months to come. Your views and input [...]

Picture free April…

I’ve been waiting for a week for my ever problematic computer to be fixed. The internal back up drive (for my pictures) has a problem and one of my memory chips has failed and now the xxxxxx thing won’t boot up. In the autumn the motherboard had to be replaced on my one year old [...]

April and early May can be so fickle…

High up in an old Oak tree the garden can be enjoyed at any time of year...

When the weather is cold like it is at the moment, there is no better place to sit than in my tree house – I have the internet in there of course! It’s been a good place to overwinter my seven Kentia palms and a rather fine Philodendron selloum, as even on the coldest days [...]