Garden Blog

On Saurday 16th June I had the great pleasure of greeting Dr John David, the Royal Horticultural Society’s Chief Scientist at VBG.  We spent a highly enlightening afternoon reviewing the Puya collection.  We received this email from Dr David frollowing his...

John’s Blog

One of our continuing challenges is to get everyone who loves this garden involved; involved beyond simply enjoying their visits.  Our philosophy in building the Ventnor Botanic Garden Community Company has been to develop the Garden by drawing on the ideas and wishes...

Garden Blog

Something exciting is happening at Ventnor Botanic Garden.  This is very much the feeling we all have at the moment.  John and Mylene are working well together with the IOWC as we move through negotiations.  Keith Leonard has agreed to lend his great expertise in many...

Garden Blog

The remarkably warm weather so far this winter has allowed several species to flower at VBG that don’t usually get warm enough to fully open. Aloe arborescens, the irritatingly named Octopus Plant (uurgh!) usually gets hit by the cold before now and its flower...

Christmas Blog

A lighthearted look (with pictures) behind the scenes at the Christmas Village…. You just don’t get snow in Ventnor… so we had to make our own: “Do you want onions with that?” Beryl is either making yet another wreath bow…or...