Greetings from the Exotic Garden in Norwich and a happy late spring.
This is my first article of the season for the Eastern Daliy Press
Another year has passed and a few more grey hairs have been added and maybe the old bones creak a bit more than they used to, never-the-less I have been working frantically in the garden in recent weeks getting the garden ready for [...]
Slumbering into winter – EDP Newspaper Oct 25th 2008
Sadly, the end of the season has finally arrived here at the Exotic Garden with tomorrow afternoon’s opening being the last of 2008.
It was only a few years ago that I decided to keep the garden open until the end of October at the request of friends and visitors, and it was only five years [...]
Lighting up for autumn – EDP Newspaper Oct 18th 2008
What a difference the sun makes to the garden at this glorious time of year, setting off those gorgeous autumnal colours. I walked around the garden this morning to inspire myself for this, my penultimate article of the Exotic Garden open season.
Visitors to the garden at this time of year are always pleasantly surprised at [...]
Roots of autumn glory – EDP Newspaper Oct 11th 2008
There is a sense of defiance to be found in autumn foliage colour – one last exotic explosion and then it’s all over until next year. And, while it lasts, that final magnificent moment can leave unrivalled memories to enrich the empty months that separate us from the confident exuberance of the spring and summer [...]
The great exotic revival – EDP Newspaper Oct 4th 2008
In the 1980s I began experimenting with exotic plants, probably enthused by my liking for house plants as a boy. At that time there was little information on growing exotica, with only scant details available from mostly Victorian gardening books.
There was no internet to ease my way to discovering obscure plants. I spotted the odd [...]
