Search - Articles

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

When I was a child pumpkins were alien and exotic. I read about them in the Peanuts cartoon, in which Linus spent long nights in the pumpkin patch at Halloween, waiting in vain for ‘The Great Pumpkin’. It never came.As the American version

slowly, keeping your basket well fed.More ideas and advice for growing exoticsFollow Sarah Raven's video advice on caring for orchids.Learn how to check banana plants for frost damage with Sarah Raven's advice.Discover how to grow a peanut plant

SchizostylisExotic, elegant, yet eminently adaptable, it's time the overlooked schizostylis took a leading role in our gardens.Schizostylis coccinea flowers from late-summer until the first frosts. It has dainty and delicate stems and flowers

gives advice on growing exotics from seedGrowing cyclamen from seedPropagating from seeds and berriesBrowse a variety of dahliasChoose spring flowering bulbs

in heavier terracotta pots instead of plastic ones to provide more stability.Like so many exotics gloriosa is not hardy, but I've never had a problem saving tubers from one year to the next. I just refrain from watering pots from about the end of October

sheltered area, then there are a couple of exotic trees that are truly spectacular. The silk tree (Albizia julibrissin f. rosea) has large pinnate leaves and flowers like pink starbursts.Also, Weinmannia trichosperma, which is a Chilean evergreen with fern

shady corner glow) but something exotic: annuals that are more Carmen Miranda than Beryl Reid.There are five annual stalwarts here. The first two are used to fill the gaps that I occasionally tear in my borders. Cosmos bipinnatus (tall, feathery leaves

Farm Plants. This is a wonderful nursery in North Wales stuffed with exotic plants of which I have never heard, from Aesculus wangii  to Zingiber mioga ‘Crug’s Zing’.String: ideally tarred twine because it smells so good. I would like lots of it so

, and they must be a pretty curious bunch. Perhaps not as curious as entomologists though. I don't want to upset people, but at least six exotic relatives of vine weevils have turned up in Britain in the last 10 years, several in Chelsea Harbour, brought in from