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This website describes some of the more tropical type planting in our Bursledon garden, and outlines the volunteer conservation projects in the local area. The site has been constructed using Microsoft Expression Web 2 editing software.

Use this link to see photo of musa basjoo fruit forming. The summer weather having been fairly poor, the bananas are unlikely to ripen. 

Update on 18th January 2009. The bananas didn't ripen, and in fact did not increase in size from photo above. The prolonged cold spell has killed many of the echiums, hopefully the larger ones will survive to flower. Banana plants have also suffered. The larger ones outside have had their stems frosted, so we will be starting with new shoots from the roots this summer. Several of the smaller mediterranean fan palms have expired.

Several Chinese fan palms have been lost, some of which were under polythene covers. Quite a useful winter for showing up plants that may well survive recent mild seasons, but will not tolerate colder conditions.

6th February 2010. The pond liner had started to leak, and today we replaced it. The old one was very hard and brittle. Filled it with rain water from the water butts - no shortage of water at this time of year! We relocated three frogs into the smaller sink pond, hopefully they will move themselves back now that their original home is refilled.

Update on 16th February 2010. This winter has been pretty hard on all the tender plants. Echiums have been wiped out, even the ones under the polythene cover. Only one in the greenhouse survived. The bananas have been reduced to pulp, hopefully they will send up shoots from the root. But they will not get to much size this year. The bamboo has survived without any evident damage. The one remaining acacia pravissima has been protected by next door's cedar, and should flower soon.

Tropical planting

Photo above shows musa basjoo, the hardy banana plant, in summer 2006. These plants survive in the ground over winter in this area when the stems have reached a reasonable size. In severe winter weather they can be killed to the ground, but will grow again from the root. This has happened in the winter of 2008/9.

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