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Admin Exotic Earth Plants
Sep 9, 20212 min read
RHS Chelsea Flower Show: A First Display for Exotic Earth Plants
Exotic Earth Plants has been asked to dress a cart style display at RHS Chelsea Flower show this year (2021) in the Italianate Market....
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Admin Exotic Earth Plants
Jul 19, 20212 min read
Schefflera: Are they hardy?
Schefflera, also known as umbrella plants are grown for their exotic foliage and ornamental value. Architecturally stunning and a...
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Admin Exotic Earth Plants
Jul 14, 20212 min read
Tetrapanax papyrifer ‘Rex’ - A Large Leaf Exotic addition to your Garden
Tetrapanax papyrifer ‘Rex’ (Rice paper plant), also known under the common names, Tetrapanax payrifera ‘Steroidal Giant’, Tetrapanax...
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Admin Exotic Earth Plants
Feb 10, 20211 min read
Gardens Illustrated Article - How to start a Micro Nursery
Feeling a huge sense of achievement after all these years to be featured in this month's Gardens Illustrated magazine (February 2021)...
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Admin Exotic Earth Plants
Jan 24, 20215 min read
Top 10 Subtropical Plants for your Garden this summer
Here are our top 10 subtropical plant suggestions for your garden this summer! 10. Echium pininana This incredible plant initially...
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Admin Exotic Earth Plants
Jan 19, 20212 min read
Aftersales customer feedback of plant purchases
It's always lovely to hear how well our plants are growing post purchase. Here is small testimonial review from a regular customer giving...
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Admin Exotic Earth Plants
Oct 25, 202010 min read
What Kind of Gardener are you? A fool proof self-assessment tool to design your perfect garden!
When Lee gave me the opportunity to write a guest blog for this site, I initially wanted to write a piece about how we ended up with the...
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Admin Exotic Earth Plants
Sep 22, 20201 min read
Tregrehen Garden Rare Plant Fair
I had the pleasure of being invited to the Tregrehen Garden Rare Plant Fair in Cornwall on Sunday 20th September following a terrible...
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Admin Exotic Earth Plants
Aug 25, 20202 min read
Winter Protection for Brugmansia and Subtropical Plants
Many subtropical plants need protection from the weather in winter and Brugmansia is no exception. When temperatures drop to near...
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Admin Exotic Earth Plants
Aug 18, 20202 min read
Western Andes Cloud Forest: A very special place
The cloud forests of Colombia’s Western Andes are a very special place for biodiversity, especially when it comes to orchids. The climate...
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Admin Exotic Earth Plants
Aug 15, 20202 min read
New Orchid Discovered
Below article from savingnature.Com. Amazing news of a new Dracula orchid discovery in the threatened cloud forest rainforest of...
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Admin Exotic Earth Plants
Apr 2, 20202 min read
Order Plants Online during COVID-19 Coronavirus
The COVID19 crisis has brought about massive uncertainty to the future of possibly a third to half garden nursery businesses which rely...
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Admin Exotic Earth Plants
Mar 4, 20201 min read
Chelsea Fringe-style Rare Plant Fair at Tregrehen Garden Cornwall
This year, Exotic Earth Plants has been invited to hold a plant stand at the prestigious and popular rare plant fair at Tregrehan Garden....
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Admin Exotic Earth Plants
Feb 21, 20201 min read
Buying a Brugmansia: A customer feedback experience
"I recently purchased a Brugmansia from Lee at Exotic Earth Plants. Nothing out of the ordinary there you may think. However there was a...
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Admin Exotic Earth Plants
Jan 29, 20203 min read
Plant Passports for Online Plant Sales in UK
After seeing a tweet about potentially needing a plant passport to sell plants, as a micro business, I saw this, potentially, as a huge...
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Admin Exotic Earth Plants
Jan 10, 20201 min read
Brugmansia Starter Kit - Available Spring 2020
Exciting new Brugmansia starter pack available for early spring. Includes a Brugmansia plant choice, specially selected soluble feed (NPK...
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Admin Exotic Earth Plants
Dec 20, 20196 min read
Totally tropical: Exotic gardening in the UK - extract from the Independent
This is an old article from the Independent in 2010 which covers exotic gardening really well including Bananas, Cannas, Brugmansia,...
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Admin Exotic Earth Plants
Dec 20, 20193 min read
Top 10 Best Gardens to Visit in the World
This list has been compiled from the National Geographic book The 10 Best of Everything. Château de Versailles Versailles, France...
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Admin Exotic Earth Plants
Dec 8, 20191 min read
Soilless Seed Sowing: reduce damping off fungus
I am trying a totally different germination method with Brugmansia seeds. You can use this method for most soiless see gerrminations...
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Admin Exotic Earth Plants
Nov 28, 20191 min read
Brugmansia in RHS Plant Finder 2020 & RHS Garden Magazine
For 2020 edition of the RHS Plant Finder I have submitted approximately 55 entries into the RHS database for inclusion in the...
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