#FernFriday Dicksonia squarrosa photos taken this morning as the unfurling frond caught my eye 🌿

Lots of great plants in our greenhouse enjoying the summer heat .

Our Begonia Luxurians is putting on some decent growth again this year already just under 3m high and 1.2 m wide ,with some pretty impressive leaves.

Rhaphidorphora peepla Flowering in the plant port today where it stays summer and winter without any heating .

#FernFriday Coniogramme emeiensis , Perfect specimen protected in a hanging basket and providing another year slug damage free 😁

Our penultimate charity open garden and plant sale tomorrow 12 till 4pm , The garden is looking amazing,the plant sale area has been re- stocked and Tina has been busy baking her fantastic cakes 🍰

Beccariophoenix alfredii The high plateau coconut palm , a relatively hardy palm down to - This was kindly given to me a few years ago as a small seedling grown by my friend Tim Jeavons . I actually still have two of them 😁

Just started flowering in the garden Today Canna x ehemanii also known as Ehemann's Canna This has to be my favourite canna of all the ones we grow , those flowers are just stunning .

A beast in the garden this year survived last winter and returned in the spring now well over 3m tall , Verbesina Olsenii The Mexican Winged Crown-Beard

#FernFriday this is the smallest Pyrosia I grow Pyrosia piloselloides commonly known as the Dragon Scale Fern .

Begonia tapatia from Durango in Durango state Mexico , just starting to flower and beginning to produce the first very small bulbils that collect on the stubby leaf shelves between the leaf axles .

Solanum uleanum , what a stunner

# FernFriday Cibotium glaucum A Hawaiian tree tern. Just starting to form a decent trunk

Last Charity open Garden , Tomorrow Tina has been baking cakes all day and I’ve been re stocking the plant sales area with loads of great plants . Hope you can make it 12 - 4 44 lower Blandford Rd Broadstone Poole Entry to plant sale and garden Adults £4 each children free

A few days away on a road trip and this wasn’t flowering before we went, Hedychium rubrum

The stunning Dioscorea dodecaneura in the greenhouse this evening .

This is the second flush of flowers on our Parodia magnifica this year 😁

This is the true Trevesia palmata 'Micholitzii' a cultivar of Trevesia palmata, that has more cut snowflake shaped leaves than straight palmata and the young growth especially is covered in small white hairs giving an almost silver appearance to the new leaves .

Seed grown two years ago Bocconia frutescens and the ones planted in the garden are full of ripening seed pods

Justicia aurea Commonly known as the Yellow Jacobinia From Mexico / Central America . Well over five foot high this year with its impressive large leaves , I’m hoping it won’t be too long now before it’s in full flower .