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my bulbs via sellers on Ebay, so I was very lucky with the results. I think they add a wonderful exotic touch to a mixed border. this is lovely

't started digging up bulbs though, just digging holes to bury things. Adam, the lawns round the student residences of Bristol University have tens of thousands of many different species of snowdrops, crocuses, grape hyacinths,daffodils, and more exotic bulbs

- 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

've got, is a fast growing bamboo with an eventual height of 15 - 20 feet, see here http://www.crocus.co.uk/plants/_/bamboo/exotics/classid.1601/ Were you aware of this when you planted it?  Will you have room for it and is it in an appropriate position

of running everywhere. The leaves are much bigger than an eupatorium, the biggest being about 6"x9". Before flowering it really does look like a common weed of which I forget the name (it flowers like a dandelion) but later becomes more exotic. I suspect

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

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

of mere academic interest, except that Liz's final question gripped my attention: "Does anyone want it?"My daughters had nagged me some years ago to get a pet snake. We'd even visited various exotic pet stores, but nothing ever came of it. Tentatively, I

. 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