The Exotic Garden Blog

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

About Will Giles

will-gilesWelcome to Will’s Exotic Garden. I live in Norwich, Norfolk on the supposedly chilly east coast of England. I live and work at my home surrounded by my exotic garden with the company of six gorgeous though mischievous cats. The garden is about one acre in size and just about big enough to get lost in, just the way I like it…

Wills father, Duncan Giles was very much a dig for victory gardener and when he moved up to Norwich from London after the war, he wanted to literally create the good life, where he grew many different types of vegetable and countless fruit trees such as apples trained neatly against the fence as u shaped cordons and espaliers. Peaches and nectarines were exotic additions as well as his personal tobacco patch for use in his large collection of pipes! There were also two ducks, sixteen chickens, dogs, cats, canaries, terrapins etc, etc….. [Read more here..]