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• Foliage Follow-Up April 2014
  on Apr 16, 2014 in exotic blog exotic garden exotic garden blog Foliage Follow-Up Spring
  First it was the flowers and now it's the turn of the foliage as we join Pam Penick of Digging as she hosts the Foliage Follow-Up, a celebration of foliage plants that fascinates this month in the garden.Here's a few of ours...Like butterflies rising...
• Garden Blogger's Bloom Day April 2014
  on Apr 15, 2014 in Bloom Day exotic blog exotic garden exotic garden blog Spring
  I was looking through the photos I took of the garden last weekend when I realised I took enough photos of what's currently in bloom in the garden to participate in this month's Garden Blogger's Bloom Day.Here are just a few of what's currently in bl...
• Five Trees for a Fiver
  on Apr 13, 2014 in exotic blog exotic garden exotic garden blog Spring trees
  We do love a bargain, especially if it's this ridiculously good...Five trees for a fiver! Even Twinkles was impressed!Yep, that's £1 a tree (US$1.67). We spotted this fantastic bargain last Saturday in Poplars Garden Centre when we visited to buy so...
• Spring Scenes in the Garden
  on Apr 8, 2014 in exotic blog exotic garden exotic garden blog Spring
  Ahh spring, it's finally here, bliss! And the garden is actively showing so many signs of new growth and promises of a beautiful growing season that is just beginning...New frond of Cyathea cooperi unfurlingLast weekend was a mixed bag of weather, su...
• Win a Blagdon Water feature
  on Apr 7, 2014 in Competition garden design water
  The beautiful sights and sounds of a water feature can now be enjoyed anytime and anywhere! The unique Liberty range from Blagdon is powered by a revolutionary rechargeable Lithium battery system, meaning set up is instant and hassle-free. When the b...
• Synful Duo
  on Apr 6, 2014 in exotic blog exotic garden exotic garden blog sping Syneleisis
  Always a delight these Synful duo, odd looking yet pretty woodland perennials every spring...Syneleisis aconitifoliaandSyneleisis palmataThe former is more advanced in growth than the latter but the leaves of both will get bigger and bigger as the gr...
• Red Pergola Restoration Begins
  on Apr 3, 2014 in exotic blog exotic garden exotic garden blog Red Pergola Spring
  The red pergola, a signature piece in our garden that featured in countless of photos on our blog finally succumbed to old age and decay last year. It had been ailing for awhile, receiving patchwork repair as and when it was needed so it could keep i...
• Aurea, Aurea!
  on Apr 1, 2014 in bamboo exotic blog exotic garden exotic garden blog Plant profile Pyllostachys Spring
  Phyllostachys aurea, more commonly known as the Golden Bamboo and less so as the Fishpole Bamboo is possibly the most popular and readily available Phyllostachys bamboo for sale in the UK. You're likely to see it in any garden centre and even DIY she...
• Chelsea 2014: Cleve West and the M&G Garden
  on Mar 31, 2014 in Chelsea 2014 Chelsea Flower Show garden design Garden Show interview RHS
  With just 7 weeks until the 2014 RHS Chelsea Flower show we have been speaking with Cleve West, who returns to Chelsea with a design for the M&G Garden. Cleves Garden is a contemporary version of an Islamic Paradise Garden.M&G  Chelsea F...
• Pot Ghetto Surprise
  on Mar 30, 2014 in exotic blog exotic garden exotic garden blog Spring Veratrum
  Most of our Veratrum collection are currently in our 'pot ghetto' - a place where empty pots and a few plants are stashed away until we've figured out what to do to them. It's not usually an area you'd want to show people around but I'm sure most gar...

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