Dave's Subtropical Garden - Isle of Wight

29/03/2021

Front garden waiting for some flowers to arrive

21/06/2020

A silly video: Gardeners World Spoof

This is the first half of a spoof video I did a few years back, the second half takes a very different direction, but I thought this part might amuse you. Vi...

29/08/2019

Not done much gardening this year as I broke my collarbone in May. The front garden is getting a refresh with a new path going in. Not as pretty to look at as the circular lawn was, but as we walk accross it so much it’s very practical. It will be gravelled. the circle has been cleared out as it had bindweed- will plant up next year. The lawn has been killed off with the intention of gravelling it. I’ve abandoned that idea for now so seeded it today with grass. That is all for now 👍

10/10/2018

Sorry I haven't posted any updates this year, hope you all had a good gardening year. Here is my Paulownia from August growing well. I'll try and post more than I have been

17/06/2017

The lesser seen back garden has come on a treat this year, we love our new sun trap gravel patio

17/06/2017

A tale of 2 ensete montbeliardii, both the same size the end of last year, stored in the same place over winter, one still doesnt have roots, the other is already 6ft tall

30/05/2017

I suppose I should start posting some photos of the garden seeing as its nearly June. We currently have 4 echiums flowering- 1 Echium Wildpretii, 1 Echium Pininana 'Snow tower', and 2 of the more common echium pininata

04/03/2017

Not gardening related, but we got a new family member today - Sophie - Cocker Spaniel x Toy Poodle aka a 'Cockapoo'.

07/02/2017

Any winter job is slow for me, as I can only spare an hour or two per weekend, but this is what I've been up to this winter. Moved the greenhouse last summer in preperation. Put in some railway sleepers, dug out a larger level area and just added a sub-base last weekend. Nearly ready to put the gravel down and have a new patio

02/01/2017

Short Version of the below Video

Taken using a SJCAM SJ4000 (Chinese GoPro copy). the longest photo interval is 20 seconds, so even though I only used 1 photo per day for this video, the cam...

02/01/2017

Latest Video, over a year of the front garden.

Set Quality to 1440p or 2160p for better quality if your computer can handle it, otherwise YouTube loses a lot a the quality. You can change the speed too us...