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Angie Davies (IOW)

Angie Davies (IOW)

“One of my favourite gardens on the Isle of Wight is the Ventnor Botanic Garden. The garden is starting to wake up to spring with the first burst of colour coming from the enormous and beautiful magnolias. In full bloom, these towering trees can be seen from the...
Ventnor Botanic Garden Welcomes Artist, Rhea McCarthy

Ventnor Botanic Garden Welcomes Artist, Rhea McCarthy

Ventnor Botanic Garden Welcomes Artist, Rhea McCarthy     Meet freelance Architect and Artist, Rhea McCarthy. Rhea will be joining us at Ventnor Botanic Garden through the summer, 2022 as an Artist in Residence.  Talking about her background in Botanical Palm Houses,...
Storm Eunice Hits Ventnor Botanic Garden

Storm Eunice Hits Ventnor Botanic Garden

Ventnor Botanic Garden – Storm Eunice Mid-February and storms are rushing across the Atlantic for the United Kingdom. The Isle of Wight was included within a rare RED weather warning from the MET office. Ventnor Botanic Garden, being located on the southern tip...

Iberian visitors set up home

Although we know about the plants which are brought into the Garden, we know very much less about creatures which might be hitching a lift, transported on balls of soil roots. That is the means by which as ant, Tapinoma ibericum,  native to southern Spain and...

Chris’ Blog

Here are two mighty flower spikes of Agave salmiana. These desert plants are native to the dry plains of Mexico. They grow for many years as spiky tipped giant rosettes, and then once large enough, surge into flower. These huge central spikes, looking like asparagus...