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 | 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...
by Admin | Oct 7, 2014 | Blog
The Canna Bank at VBG is so named because it became where we grew the riot of colour possible from the species and cultivars of Canna. Canna are well established in English gardens, they are usually treated as half hardy prennials that need to be lifted (and divided)...
by Admin | Aug 12, 2014 | Blog
BBC Gardener’s World Live 2014 At the end of April 2014 we were approached by Liz Walker, Destination Development Manager from Visit Isle of Wight Ltd, who each year as part of their exhibitions programme to promote the Isle of Wight take stand space at a range...
by Admin | Apr 25, 2014 | Blog
In 2013 VBG was visited by Dr Mike Maunder, lately Director of Fairchild Botanic Garden and Hawaii Botanic Garden, now Associate Dean of Florida International University. We are lucky to have him agree to join the VBG Advisory Group. On his visit we had lengthy...
by Admin | Dec 28, 2013 | Blog
Over the Christmas period it has been good to visit the Garden as someone who is interested in plants. I’m reminded straight away what a remarkable collection of half-hardy plants have been amassed at Ventnor over the years. So many plants have very personal...
