Long time since last blog - dog photos

This is Sheep, she enjoys eating anything and everything especially chocolate, gardening and sign language. She dislikes going for walks (she lies down), water and being told NO!





Handsome Floyd loves swimming, sleeping in beds, playing with stones. Dislikes the hoover, being laughed at and other dogs we meet on walks.

Little Ray the Brugmasia has moved with me

This is Little Ray in his new home. I brought him back to Hayling from Cambridge with me in the van. He has grown very horizontal as he was confined in the dark hallway of my flat but now his free to grow up and up and hopefully produce me some flowers. When he arrived in the garden he was still in a pot that was much too small. With the result that he had to be stabilized by bricks to ensure he didn't topple over and break his arms.





I bought him a new pot, its plastic so im able to lift him in and out in winter. I also bought some Stoppa Slug tape to try and thwart the slugs and snails that will inevitably want to come and munch him. The tape is made of copper and will apparently deter the nasties that will try to eat Ray.


Inside the pot I started with some big stoned I took from the beach, then a mixture of soil rich in organic matter and perlite. I hope this will make him healthy and lead to flowers.

Ive moved home to Hayling

Not in Cambridge anymore but back on Costa del Hayling. Here are some photos of my mum's garden. Hope you enjoy them.

More Princess of Wales Glass House

Still in the Princess of Wales Glasshouse we saw a lizard basking by the pool. Can you spot him in the photo?




Amorphophallus Titanum about to flower


and a spent one


Fabulous tree fern sculpture from New Zealand


Zygo hybrids


Alittle Paph


Lovely Vanda orchids

The Waterlily house and the Princess of Wales Conservatory

The Waterlily house at Kew was built in 1852, it was then the widest single span glasshouse in the world, designed specifically to house the huge attraction of the age, the giant Amazonian waterlily. Although the glasshouse changed use in 991, it was converted back to its original use and today, it is the hottest and most humid environment at Kew, housing tropical ornamental aquatic plants and climbers.

Carnivorous plants hang in baskets and catch insects

The Princess of Wales Conservatory was named in honour of Augusta, Princess of Wales, who founded the gardens and opened by Diana, Princess of Wales in 1987. This is the most complex of Kew's public glasshouses has 10 different climate zones that are all computer controlled under one roof.

Fantastic Lithops collection