by Admin | Jul 30, 2015 | News
See the enigmatic night flowering lily of legend This week for the flowers of the Giant Waterlily have opened. This year we are offering special opportunities to visit at night to see the amazing nightflowering lily. After midnight the lily opens its flower,...
by Admin | May 14, 2015 | Blog
Plant Profile Echium pininana When composing Blogs on plants at VBG it’s often easy to overlook the obvious through familiarity. Perhaps a plant for which this botanic garden is rightly famed is one that we don’t tend, plant, propagate or molly coddle. It has grown,...
by Admin | Apr 28, 2015 | News
Iconic flower parade begins The “great opening” of the 2015 Echium pininana parade has begun. The picture above shows the very first dozen or so individual flowers opening on a single spike in our Mediterranean Garden. Each flower spike of these iconic...
by Admin | Jan 28, 2015 | News
VBG Partners Liz Earle video January 28th Click on the image above. You will be redirected to the Liz Earle Youtube site.
by Admin | Dec 8, 2014 | Blog
A Garden in the Houses of Parliament In the August Blog I wrote about an award winning garden we put up at Gardener’s World Live at the Birmingham NEC, in conjunction with Visit Isle of Wight Ltd, the destination management company who promote the island to the...
