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saw vast elephantine bananas, slightly creepy cycads, cavorting ferns, tall cacti, bombastic bamboos and exotic orchids.It was a great afternoon and the sun was shining, too — a bit of a result on the east coast of Scotland. The only thing that would

If my calculations are right this is the 100th blog that I've written for gardenersworld.com - a mildly momentous anniversary (thank you, by the way, for reading). I've been trying to think of an appropriately significant subject about which

plants (there was a particularly striking group of them in Tom Hoblyn's Chelsea garden in 2009). These have slippery sides into which insects fall and are then digested by the fluid at the base of the pitcher. There are large colonies growing in both