Our Gardening Angel has 3 of our Rain & Drain Exotics Planters set up in our polytunnel. He is currently growing Echium wildpretii also known as Tower of jewels, Rainbow Chilli Plant and a Lemon Pelargonium. Watch our video to learn more.

It's the start of July and our exotics plants are growing at full speed. We've got a range of exotics growing in our visitor greenhouse in Mawdsley including Babaco Papaya, Dwarf Cavendish Banana, Super Dwarf Cavendish Banana & Cyan Ruby Banana.

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Our Gardening Angels have been hard at work propagating Babaco Papaya and Naranjilla in our Hydropod Cuttings propagator. After being planted 2 weeks ago our cuttings are showing lots of healthy root growth.

Our chairman, John Molyneux, had a record breaking root ginger harvest of 3.81Kg last month. This beat his previous best of 2.96Kg and the plant had grown to well over 6ft tall in our Rain and Drain planter.

Our talented Gardening Angel Paul has been working wonders in the Greenhouse and now his Pineapple is ready to be harvested. This has been growing in our Rain & Drain Exotics Planter and has been growing for 2 years and has grown to approximately 18 inches. To learn more about our Rain & Drain Exotics Planter page

Here is a quick video showing the bananas we have growing in our greenhouse.

Papaya is our most productive tropical plant producing 20 kg of fruit per tree per season.