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. In this picture I planted it with annual cornflowers.Iris 'Deep Black' - one of the most sumptuously coloured irises. The petals are seductively dark and exotic.I could go on, and on, and on, but I'll spare you this time.Feel free to add your own here and do see

hardytropicals.co.uk/ it is a specialist site for those interested in exotics. Mainly UK based bunch. I would not cut it at all till frosts have stopped as that can cause rot. Hi Ziggy, I moved my fatsia two years ago. I did cut mine down a by about a third as I

its usual exotic beauty and usefulness. I think it is a great plant for large gardens. The frosted plants should regenerate from new plants from runners. Mine were unaffected in Bristol but I should imagine the roots from older plants would

- it's heartbreaking when such lovely plants get destroyed in bad weather, but all part of it I guess. Happy Marion - please may I have some trifle?!We're waiting for the hard frosts to come and kill off our beautify exotic plants......I think I'm a

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

, here are a few pics of my garden. Here in Cornwall there are a few "tropical" gardens. I live not far from Hardy Exotics, overlooking St Michaels Mount where tropical plants abound.I like to see tropical gardens but I would not like to have one. Many

satisfying and also made me buy plants I'd never have considered before Lyn, just going off subject - meant to say that I would be treating the Tacca as a conservatory plant. I have a taste for the more exotic plants and love a challenge Think I

outside, I grow chilli, herbs like basil , and I use mine for flowers sowing/seedlings, making cuttings from plants etc .I don't grow much veg but if that is what you prefer to grow I am sure someone will point you in the right direction . Onions

, let alone a tree - I know of herbaceous plants that achieve that height in a season. It's difficult to choose a tree that is guaranteed not to get any bigger than the height of a short giraffe, but here is a small selection that roughly fits the bill

what the photo promised, also by the second year they have become rather puny looking. Last autumn I planted some extremely exotic looking yellow and red striped parrot tulips and they are absolutely more mad and bonkers than on the photo on the packet