Five Mistakes to Avoid Planting and Growing Lavender - Lavendula

Come the summer and Lavenders start to shine! However, many plants you see planted in suburban garden are often looking overgrown, woody and barely flowering! Well there is something you can do about that. Just check out English horticulturist Simon's 'Five Mistakes to Avoid Planting and Growing Lavender - Lavendula' video.

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Tropical Gardens UK Exotic Garden - Great Dixter, Tour and Review

Great Dixter is home to one of the few exotic gardens ever designed and grown in the UK that still exists in roughly its original form. It is also the inspiration for our own garden as well as this gardening channel, so as gardens Lorna and I owe it a debt of thanks. We get to Visit Great Dixter every five years or so which means we have an idea as to how it looked in the past and can make a comparison to how it looked in this latest visit. It is as good and as inspiring as it one was?

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Tropical Gardens UK: Outdoor Lighting for your Exotic Garden

Pink hydrangeas can be a real problem, especially if you had originally purchased one that was blue! However there is no need to suck it up as all it not lost! In this video English horticulturist Simon explains what steps you can take in order to change your pink hydrangea back to blue and it is a lot simpler than you think.

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Exotic Garden Jobs for June Update

It seems that summer has finally ramped up the temperatures after a cool start to the month of June and with it came a tonne  of work to keep up with the garden. We published a video earlier on in the month regarding the jobs we hoped to achieve and in this video we have an update as to what we did indeed accomplish. So just where did we get to with the weeding, plant maintenance, pest management and general dog-work?

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How to Care for Stapelia grandiflora - Carron Plant, Starfish Flower, G...

Native to the African continent, Stapelia grandiflora, more commonly known as Carron Plant, Starfish Flower, or Giant Toad Plant, is an exotic flowering evergreen succulent plant that is surprisingly easy to grow. although not a true cactus, it does exhibit many similar characteristics.

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Tropical Gardens UK: How to Grow the Arum LiIy - Zantedeschia aethiopica

The Arum lily - Zantedeschia aethiopica is a gorgeous evergreen herbaceous plant from southern Africa. Yet despite its exotic origins it has been proven to be surprisingly hardy and easy to grow right here in the UK! To find out more English horticulturist Simon goes in to detail on how to both plant and grow this fantastic flowering plant in your garden.

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June Garden Pest and Disease Warning

It's the month of June and along with the weather the incidence or garden pests is beginning to heat up! However, forewarned is forearmed so English horticulturist Simon as been carrying out his monthly garden pest and disease checks and 'snipping them in the bud' as it were with regards to timely applications of fungicides, pesticides or other such management.

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How to Plant and Grow Glory Lily tubers - Gloriosa superba, rothschildiana

Glory lilies arguably produce some of the most exotic of all flower structures, yet are easily grown from tubers. While they are not hardy enough to over winter in our English climate the tubers can simply be lifted and stored in cool, dark dry conditions until the following spring. To find out to plant and grow Glory lily tubers such as Gloriosa superba and rothschildiana English horticulturist Simon explains all you need to do.

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Is Great Dixter Gardens Worth Visiting - Tour Review

With planting designed by Christopher Lloyd and landscaping by the Victorian, genius architect Edwin Lutyens the gardens at Great Dixter promise a world class display! However it has been a number of years since the death of Christopher Lloyd and so one has to ask if the magic of these two gardening titans still resonates today. To find out more English horticulturists Simon and Lorna take a trip down to East Sussex to find out for themselves.

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Tropical Gardens UK: Exotic Garden June Tour

June is finally here, the first month in which you can expect to see some flower colour in your exotic garden. Unfortunately cold nights and weeks of rain has held back many plants, and provided poor displays from others! Be that as it may, English horticulturist Simon is going to walk around his garden to see what is happening. Hopefully something inspiring can be found?

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How to grow African Mexican Marigolds from Seed -Tagetes erecta

If you look around the garden centres it will seem that the impressive pot-grown African marigold, also known as the Mexican marigold, has gone out of fashion. Why? Because they no longer seem to be on sale there any more! However, if you are keen to grow these in your garden all is not lost as the seed of the African/Mexican marigold is still readily available from both garden centres and online retailors. Luckily this plant is very easy to grow from seed so in this video English horticulturist Simon explains how to grow African Mexican Marigolds (Tagetes erecta) from seed.

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Tropical Gardens UK: Five Shade Loving Plants for Cold Hardy Tropical Ef...

Shady borders have always been difficult to plant up with interesting, bold or colourful plants so in this video English horticulturist Simon counts down his top 5 shade loving plants for cold hardy, tropical effect. As a bonus there are also a number of other fantastic plants which didn't make the list but are mentioned at the end of the video.

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Tropical Gardens UK Exotic Garden Jobs for June

Spring is in full swing so the balmy (or wet if you are in the UK) weather is bringing the garden on in leaps and bounds. Unfortunately the work in the garden is also building up, but if you can keep ahead of the curve you will be able to maintain far higher standards with much less work later on in the year. So in this video English horticulturist Simon walks around his own exotic garden to point out the jobs that he has planned for June.

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