The Exotic Garden opens for the NGS on Sunday July 31st
Gosh – it’s that time of year again, when we fling the gates of the Exotic Garden open for the National Garden scheme. This year sees the garden opening for its 22nd year to raise monies for NGS charities. It only seems like yesterday that I was first asked to open the garden to the [...]
Fabulous Thunbergia’s brighten up the dullest of summer days…
Rain, rain, go away – come again another day! An old nursery rhyme that I’m sure many say in their heads when the heavens open, especially last weekend which was a virtual washout for most of us. I think we have had enough rain to make up for our drought ridden spring here on the [...]
Don’t forget to water your containers in wet weather!
I feel a bit sluggish this week as I had an angiogram on Monday which made me seriously depleted for a couple of days, so two of my good friends kindly took on the daily chore of watering all the pots and containers in the garden, a relatively easy and quite pleasurable job, though it [...]
Summer at Exotic Garden…
It’s been a very busy week here at the Exotic Garden with lots of coach parties arriving come rain or shine. The most exciting group though were three coach loads of children from Avenue Junior School here in Norwich, who were all on a jungle plant hunting expedition. They all had to find fifteen things [...]
July already!
I always like to read articles and blogs I have written at this time in past seasons and I’m usually amazed to see how different the garden is year on year. Sometimes it’s well in advance and at other times well behind, though this year up until a few weeks ago drought was one of [...]
