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The Tropical Border Revisited
Back in April, I told you about the new tropical or hot border I was developing (see ‘Planning for the Tropical Border’). And I promised to let you know how it turned out; unless, of course, it was a...
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The Tropical Border – 2nd Year
With the first hint of autumn, the garden is looking decidedly tired in places but the tropical border at least is putting on a show. It doesn’t come into its own until quite late in the season and...
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A Tidy Up
Now that we’ve finally had a couple of frosts at the Priory, I feel that I have permission to start tidying away. So I’ve been carting stuff off to the compost bins or bonfire site. In the topical...
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The Tropical Border – 3rd Year
Mid September already? It seems just a few short weeks since I lugged a large Musa basjoo out of a greenhouse; since I stripped the straw protection off those I’d left outside. Only a little while...
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The Tropical Border And How I Learned To Hate Soaker Hose
Like last year, I gambled on a fine spring by planting up the tropical border early. In mid-April, to a comb-and-tissue-paper fanfare, I dug up the big red banana (Ensete maurelii) from its...
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The Tropical Border – 4th Year
When I started the tropical border in 2012, it was hardly deserving of the name but a year later it looked more the part. And by 2014 many of the plants were enormous and the bed did have a whiff of...
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