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in the grounds. The bushes were huge and bright red chillies hung from them like exotic earrings.By December my overwintered chillies looked quite dead. I put this down to the fact that it was December, it was dark and miserable and they should have been

at Gardeners’ World Live. Each year I am reminded of its loveliness and how much I would like to grow it, and each year I always manage to forget about it before I've got the train home.I love the ladybird poppy. It's not particularly fancy or exotic, it's just

I'm not sure I like moth orchids. They're pretty to look at when in flower, but a bit of a pain to care for if you want them to bloom again. And I think it's a bit sad that these beautiful plants, which should be growing in the canopy of an exotic

if it ventures out again.There's something really special about seeing a lizard in the garden. It's almost as if they shouldn't be able to survive in cold, rainy Britain, and that they only belong in a more exotic world, somewhere hot and dry. But despite