Three glorious minutes in late October at the Exotic Garden
Many apologies to my regular readers for not posting since Oct 20th – here is my excuse!
Since I returned from hosting a two week cruse around Madeira and the Canaries with 49 guests in tow, I have been spending pretty much all my time getting the garden prepared for winter and bringing in all those [...]
The season ends at the Exotic Garden…
This weekend sees the last open day of the season at Exotic Garden and it looks like being a rather cool one, but hopefully with brilliant sun and a blue sky. With our terribly fickle climate, especially over the last few years, it is impossible to predict the weather at this time of year, as [...]
Nothing can beat the sheer beauty of autumn flowering bulbs…
It’s that extraordinary time of year again when so many autumn bulbs are coming into bloom to grace our gardens with their abundant though often delicate autumn colours. The Nerines, Colchicums, Amaryllis belladonna, Autumn Crocus, Cyclamen and autumn flowering snowdrops, yes snowdrops! There are also Scilla Autumnalis and Sternbergia lutea for the even more [...]
Luxuriant begonias are so over-the-top!
The late Christopher Lloyd memorably said ‘If I was reduced to growing only one genus, Begonias would be it.’ I too find this genus absolutely fascinating and have been growing Begonias for decades and never cease to admire there beauty.
Begonias are in a genus of about 900 species of perennials, shrubs and climbers. It is [...]
A very blustery September
Looking back to this time last year I wrote about August being the coldest for 17 years and I see now that August this year was the coldest for 18 years, so the question is – are we now into a run of cold summers let alone cold winters? I also wrote about wind and [...]
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