After the shocking cold of January 2010, the PGP garden took a serious hit to various marginally hardy exotics. However, many things recovered and the …Read more »

My Amicia zygomeris reached huge proportions this year and is still in full flower as I write in early November. A Mexican perennial legume, it …Read more »

The summer of 2007 will go down in history as the wettest on record for the UK. Whilst this made for exceptional growth on some …Read more »

Another year, another lack of planting. I’ve got a business to run, don’t ya know?? Euphorbia x pasteurii ‘Phrampton Phatty’. A new clone raised here …Read more »

A year can make all the difference! Though in this case a lack of time to get stuck in has resulted in a moderate improvement. …Read more »

These Arctotis have an amazingly long flowering period. Salvia confertiflora in the foreground… Agave difformis jovially says “In for a penny!”, or maybe I made …Read more »

‘Twas the idea of dear John Grimshaw for me to spread willy nilly seeds of South African weeds about my bare patches. Not at all …Read more »

Construction still goes on… More Agaves bedded in. A distinct need for more planting here… …and here.

Paths are finally laid, using raw, locally dug limestone gravel over a permeable membrane. My own design of screening, using coppiced hazel rods, chestnut posts …Read more »

Brrrrr….glad me Agave’s got ‘is winter woolly hat on. OK so it ain’t woolly, but one layer of plastic makes a hell of a difference …Read more »