Tropic of Chorlton......

The little garden I designed and put together in St. Ann's Square for last year's Dig The City Festival is still going strong on the terrace at the Post Box Café in trendy Chorlton. It isn't mine to look after anymore but It's well looked after and I like to see how it's developing and changing.

Pete, who sells plants outside the café most weekends, and who helped me with my garden last year, is a great fan of tropical plants which is is possible to grow even in cold, damp Manchester closer to the North Pole than the tropics. He'd brought some banana plants and other tropical plants to develop the garden. They will be quite happy here over the summer but will need to be taken indoors for the winter of course.

The extra picture is of some of the planting in the barrel pot.