Location, Location, Location or Horses For Courses

One of the first , if not the first thing to consider when creating a new garden or re-vamping an old one, is to work out which plants do well in your locale. There are more micro-climates around than you or I realize – even in Phuket. So it’s a good idea to go on … Continue reading →

Jazzy Jasmine

What do the following tropical plants have in common? Jasminum, buddleia paniculata, gardenia, orange jessamine, plumeria, wrightia, fiddlewood, alstonia, michelia alba, cestrum nocturnum. Actually they have two points of similarity. One, they are all white flowering shrubs or trees; two, they are all sweet-smelling. I have deliberatetely placed the jasmine first in the above list … Continue reading →