Ginger lily is an exceptional plant

Ginger lily is an exceptional plant

The foliage is very attractive and adds to a jungle effect within the tropical borders; a few good varieties are 'Hedychium gardnerianum' and 'Hedychium coccineum' they have spectacular flowers with a lovely strong scent. The Ginger Lilies are native …
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Bonchurch Inn goes bananas for palm

At the Bonchurch Inn, it has done just that and has rewarded the owner, gardener who planted it and visitors to the pub's courtyard garden with blooms and hands of fruit, which, sadly, are nice to look at but inedible. Basjoo is frost-tolerant but to …
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The tropic of Cornwall: How a nondescript field was turned into an unexpected …

A parcel of land came up for sale just outside Penzance in Cornwall and Neil Armstrong, who practices as a GP in the town, bought it. Armstrong doesn't live on the land, or ever wish to, and yet every weekend for the past 15 years he's come on his own …
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