A rather cool, blustery and overcast late May at the Exotic Garden…
After such a spectacularly hot and humid April, May has been rather a disappointment to say the least, but then we do live in the British Isles after all and can expect almost any weather condition that our temperate climate can throw at us, though our weather does seem to have been more extreme in [...]
Almost planting time for those tender perennials and annuals…
I know many growers of exotic plants have already planted out all their tender stuff, but I always hold out until the second to third week of May or later in a cold spring. I know we have had some really hot days already, in fact it feels like we have had summer weather for [...]
Beating the drought – replanting the xerophytic garden!
The ghosts of all the winter dead things have all but faded away though a few of my Cordyline’s now need to be cut down to a few inches above ground level as they are sprouting like mustard and cress around their respective bases. All the dead and dying Phormiums are now a distant memory [...]
