Just a few more and then it’s all done…
Storing all the tender exotics has been a mammoth task this year, but thanks to the inimitable Jamie Spooner all is now finished – or is it? Well – there are still a few clumps of cannas and some cacti to mollycoddle, but if it turns bitterly cold in the next few days I will [...]
It’s belt and braces time here at the Exotic Garden…
After seven years of not protecting any of my clumps of the fabled root hardy banana ‘Musa basjoo’ and thinking we will never have a cold winter again – wishful thinking on my part – British gardeners were hit by the coldest winter for over thirty years. More than two decades old, the clumps lived [...]
Thinking of yesterday…
Feeling rather melancholy today with my lust for writing dwindling with every thought, I think a cup of Earl Grey might bring me out of this torpor. Today it’s miserable, raining and only 5C outside – even the air smells cold. All the cats are curled up tightly together in a pile – no reason [...]
Almost there!
This is getting ridiculous! I can’t get any more plants in my (12 x30 ft) Poly tunnel as it’s already bulging at the seams, though I’m sure Jamie thinks we can get a few more in somehow. He must be thinking it’s an annex of the Tardis! I want to know who gave all my [...]
