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SpringySteve
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I'm passionate about gardening & exotic/tropical gardening. Gardeners World 'Garden of the year winner
2016. Head gardener at The Medley Walled Garden, Oxford.
Well done for getting the correct information out there at last!!
Please do more of this, especially in your magazine!! 🙏
November 15, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I wish I could grow them like that. They never do well for me anymore and slowly go downhill after introducing them to the tank😞
September 27, 2025 at 9:23 PM
A bigger pond would probably be top of my list.
September 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
It’s grown a bit since then! 😄
September 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Ours is really showing some lovely colours on one stem. An amazing plant to grow 💛🧡❤️🌱
August 31, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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August 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
That looks more like Paulownia to me.
August 22, 2025 at 5:44 PM
We have had Eucomis planted outside unprotected for years now. So has my sister and her garden is heavy clay soil.
I gave up my subscription when they kept reprinting the old myth that hedgehogs eat all your slugs and snails in the garden (which they don’t🙄) Rant over too! 😀
August 13, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Oh brilliant! 🥳
I will go and crawl back into my box and shut the lid 😂
Continue as you are! 🤭😀
July 21, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I forgot to add the link so will post it here 🤪😂

hedgehogcabin.info/feeding
Hedgehog Cabin
Open 8am to 5pm every day by appointment only A MASK MUST BE WORN 01252 845065 For non-emergencies hedgehogcabin@talktalk.net
hedgehogcabin.info
July 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I’m just wondering what you are feeding them?
I may be wrong but that looks like nuts and seeds which are bad to feed to hedgehogs and eventually kill them?

For anyone wanting to feed hedgehogs, please have a read of this rescue advice. Their whole website is a mine of up to date information 🙏
July 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
A little bit of column A
and a little bit of column B 😄
July 18, 2025 at 6:05 AM
A couple of pictures in there from our garden, taken a good few years ago 🤗
June 28, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I need to get to work earlier! 😄
That is stunning!!
June 17, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Purchased Helwingia chinensis at the beginning of this month but I’ve been growing Helwingia japonica ‘broad leaf form’ for years now and is such a lovely and unusual plant.
June 15, 2025 at 8:46 PM
It immediately reminded me of this for some reason 😆😂
June 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I use wood ash from the pizza oven at work. Just put a light dusting in a ring around dahlias and hostas and it completely stops them.
May 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Shame that you are spreading an old myth about hedgehogs eating slugs and snails.
Please have a read of this and update your information 🙏

hedgehogcabin.info/pdfs-free-to...
Hedgehog Cabin
Open 8am to 5pm every day by appointment only A MASK MUST BE WORN 01252 845065 For non-emergencies hedgehogcabin@talktalk.net
hedgehogcabin.info
May 11, 2025 at 3:44 PM