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Home Site home page.  Here you can be alerted to new pages added to the site by clicking on any of the rss feed buttons. Tropical garden design Some ideas to ponder when considering going down the tropical garden path. Winter interest in the tropical garden Pictures and discussion about gardening in the winter Hardiness zones An explanation of the hardiness zone classification and a discussion of factors affecting a plants ability to put up with cold. Growing canna General information on canna plants with links to more in depth coverage of many canna related items. Growing canna from seed An illustrated, step by step guide to raising canna from seeds. Growing canna from rhizomes An illustrated guide to growing canna from rhizomes. Harvesting canna seed An illustrated guide to successful canna seed collection. Overwintering canna plants An illustrated guide showing how to deal with canna plants over winter. Canna varieties Seed raised canna varieties are featured here with pictures of the canna flowers and plants. Canna pest and diseases Natures' more spoil sport attitudes are discussed here. Cold Hardy bananas A discussion on growing banana plants so far from home. Protecting cold hardy bananas over winter An illustrated, step by step guide to protecting cold hardy bananas through a typical zone 9 winter. Tropical foliage plants A portal to a collection of some of the more obliging tropical plants. Links to the individual plants (Expect some lavish sub 100kb pictures) Elephant ear plants An illustrated guide to growing various elephant ear plants from shop bought tubers. Hedychiums An illustrated guide to growing gingers. Ricinus communis An illustrated guide to growing the castor oil plant. Echiums An illustrated guide to growing echiums. Cyphomandra betacea An illustrated guide to growing the tree tomato. Garden compost A general discussion on home composting with links to more in-depth examination of the subject. Compost ingredients What you can, can't and shouldn't compost. Compost bin Location, location, location, it's true about compost bins as well. Leaf mould A guide to creating your own weed free surface mulch. My compost regime How I make compost in the cool tropical garden, (illustrated of course.)

About me Strangely enough, a little snippet about how I became involved in cool climate tropical gardening. Tropical garden pictures A portal of stunning photographs of the garden featured on this site.  Details below: (All images less than 100kb) Picture 1 Exotic planting surrounding a sun trap patio. Picture 2 An alternative view of the sun trap patio. Picture 3 An atmospheric picture of the garden at dusk. Picture 4 Large Abyssinian Bananas feature in this picture. Picture 5 Lush tropical foliage features in this picture. Picture 6 Big leaves of the coco yam in a tropical border. Picture 7 Another mouth-watering picture of tropical plants. Ensete Ventricosum General discussion on the Abyssinian banana and a portal to more in-depth information on many aspects of growing this fine plant. Growing Ensete Ventricosum from seed A guide to growing Abyssinian bananas from seed. A germination experiment An experiment carried out in the interests of science and betterment of mankind to determine if germination rates of Ensete V. could be improved. Overwintering Ensete Ventricosum An illustrated, step by step guide to getting these plant through winter. Planting out of Ensete Ventricosum An illustrated, step by step guide to putting them back in the ground again. Container gardening ideas A discussion on container gardening with links to appropriate plants. Mosquito control Non toxic mosquito control for your garden. North American pitcher plants An illustrated guide to growing Sarracenia from seed, through to their first flowers. Venus fly traps Culture of these greedy plants is discussed here.

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