http://www.urbanjungle.uk.com/blog/ Latest news and articles from Urban Jungle en-US Thu, 4 Apr 2013 16:54:43 GMT Jungle Drums BP Blog 8.0 http://www.urbanjungle.uk.com/blog/template_permalink.asp?id=144 http://www.urbanjungle.uk.com/blog/template_permalink.asp?id=144 We started the day with a meeting. I try to get everybody together one day a week so we can run over how were doing, where were heading, urgent tasks that need completion and projects we want to achieve in the near future. We began todays meeting... Thu, 4 Apr 2013 16:54:38 GMT Blog http://www.urbanjungle.uk.com/blog/template_permalink.asp?id=143 http://www.urbanjungle.uk.com/blog/template_permalink.asp?id=143 Dahlia 'Chimborazo'Dahlias have had a rather old fashioned image. Often associated with Grandads allotments, earwigs and endless staking and tying, theyre not considered the coolest plant on the planet. Too right theyre not cool. Theyre Red Hot!... Tue, 12 Mar 2013 14:42:53 GMT Blog http://www.urbanjungle.uk.com/blog/template_permalink.asp?id=142 http://www.urbanjungle.uk.com/blog/template_permalink.asp?id=142 The Edible Jungle is a garden that we create every summer at the nursery to grow on our Cannas, Gingers, Dahlias and Bananas. We combine these with highly decorative edible plants and annuals for cut flowers. A beautiful and productive garden that... Tue, 5 Mar 2013 14:32:05 GMT Blog http://www.urbanjungle.uk.com/blog/template_permalink.asp?id=141 http://www.urbanjungle.uk.com/blog/template_permalink.asp?id=141 The undersides of Colocasia 'Fontanesii'Colocasias are dramatic plants and give a taste of the tropics to a bedding scheme. These tender perennials are commonly called ‘Elephant’s ears’ but are not to be confused with the hardy perennial Bergenia which... Tue, 26 Feb 2013 13:29:38 GMT Blog http://www.urbanjungle.uk.com/blog/template_permalink.asp?id=140 http://www.urbanjungle.uk.com/blog/template_permalink.asp?id=140 In spring, the eagerness shown by some people to bed out tender and half-hardy plants leaves me flabbergasted. This year I knew of so many friends who got just a little carried away by the mild weather, in March no less, and brought their Bananas... Wed, 17 Oct 2012 12:57:31 GMT Blog http://www.urbanjungle.uk.com/blog/template_permalink.asp?id=139 http://www.urbanjungle.uk.com/blog/template_permalink.asp?id=139 Well be attending a plant fair at West Acre Nursery on Saturday with the theme of Autumn Colour. So for inspiration I took a walk around the nursery yesterday to write a list of all our plants that are looking their seasonal best, ready for collecting... Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:03:03 GMT Blog http://www.urbanjungle.uk.com/blog/template_permalink.asp?id=138 http://www.urbanjungle.uk.com/blog/template_permalink.asp?id=138 Liz and I realized that our last blog post was about the hosepipe ban, and how we laughed as we remembered saying it would have to rain all summer for the ban to be lifted this year. On that note- enough said!Some plants, however, are revelling in... Fri, 13 Jul 2012 09:56:27 GMT Blog http://www.urbanjungle.uk.com/blog/template_permalink.asp?id=137 http://www.urbanjungle.uk.com/blog/template_permalink.asp?id=137 Customers regularly ask me how the hosepipe ban will affect the nursery. Fortunately, as a business we will still be able to use a hosepipe for watering our plants. Can you imagine filling a watering can 6 zillion times a day to water a whole nursery?Weve... Tue, 3 Apr 2012 14:45:16 GMT Blog http://www.urbanjungle.uk.com/blog/template_permalink.asp?id=136 http://www.urbanjungle.uk.com/blog/template_permalink.asp?id=136 Somewhere out there, perhaps my parents still have it, is a photograph of yours truly in a Brownie uniform, planting a tree. At least I was assisting some local dignitary by handing them the shovel. I very vaguely remember the event itself. Anyway,... Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:23:52 GMT Blog http://www.urbanjungle.uk.com/blog/template_permalink.asp?id=135 http://www.urbanjungle.uk.com/blog/template_permalink.asp?id=135 Our Clematis amandii is in flower and for me thats the signal that spring has started. Time to get bloggingNew Garden at Urban JungleThe cold weather last month forced a retreat inside and though frustrating, being prevented from doing some of the... Sat, 3 Mar 2012 16:54:13 GMT Blog