Posts by Nick

I eat slugs and snails and sometimes I scare small children…..

Tender banana with huge paddle shaped dark green exotic looking leaves. Enormous dark green leaves with red veining and stunning deep red undersides. Requires bedding out in the summer with lots of moisture and feed.

Spectacular exotic looking plant with palmate leaves up to 1mtr across. Likes rich, well drained soil. Treated as a semi hardy deciduous shrub with winter protection from old leaves and fleece.

Herbaceous Perennial. Common name is ‘Brazilian Rhubarb’. Huge, mad leaves require moist/boggy soil as they transpire large quantities of water in summer. Flowers June to October, although flower spike is dramatic, flowers are insignificant. The Gunnera’s are covered up for winter with the old leaves and when they are removed  at the end of March…