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Propagating Ensete Bananas

Ensetes are difficult to propagate as they don’t set seed in the UK and don’t produce suckers. Steve Edney introduced this method on the monstrosity formerly known as Twitter some while ago and I decided to give it a try as it seemed to produce more offspring more reliably and less awkwardly than my previousContinue reading “Propagating Ensete Bananas”

Grafting Passionflowers: Useful Procedure or Self-indulgent Showboating – You Decide!

Grow your Own Passionfruit

Lots of people try growing seeds from the purple passionfruit you buy in supermarkets. This is Passiflora edulis (not P. caerulea which is the blue flowering hardy form you will be familiar with – unfortunately some big companies have been marketing it as edulis). Initially this works well and seedlings develop quickly into great bigContinue reading “Grow your Own Passionfruit”

Schrödinger’s Passionflower – A Hardiness Trial

Are you one of those people who delay checking your lottery numbers so that you can the relish the feeling of not yet having failed to win? If so then this one is for you. After creating a long raised bed behind the new greenhouse and refreshing the raised bed at the opposite side ofContinue reading “Schrödinger’s Passionflower – A Hardiness Trial”

A New Year, A New Plan

As we come to the beginning of the 2024 season I have decided to move more content away from the social media site formerly known as Twitter and set up this blogging site as an annexe to our website which is hideously out of date. We have made some changes in the garden including theContinue reading “A New Year, A New Plan”