Today’s video is a return to Mark Goodlad’s tropical style Tiki garden in North Lincolnshire, England for an update on his exotic plants following the coldest freezes of the winter so far. This was filmed during Storm Éowyn as high winds and strong gusts battered the garden and highlights just how tough and beautiful a lot of the palms and evergreen plants in an exotic garden really are. We look at how Mark has now decided to protect and care for certain plants in the garden (including the Musa basjoo banana plants), leave others to it and absolutely cram his tropical greenhouse full of rare and tender plants - but how are they all looking? There’s an update on the arid area with a bed of Cycad ‘Sago Palms’ plus another section full of Agave and Yuccas, but did Mark get round to protecting them before winter and has it worked so far? We also discuss the next episode, a road trip to Sunk Island garden centre over near Hull to propagate Brassaiopsis, Schefflera, Metapanax and Pseudopanax - some of the rarest and coolest exotic evergreen plants available in the UK…
Our May 2024 Sunk Island plant shopping trip:
https://youtu.be/5e4a5XG2bhM
Sunk Island Garden Centre Facebook page: https://m.facebook.com/100036409286101/
Dave Jones Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/plantsmandave?igsh=MTFoNjEyd2lieHI5bA==
0:00 Intro
1:07 Winter protection for Mark’s exotic garden plants including Musa basjoo bananas
5:55 Wife land - evergreen Clematis armandii, propagation greenhouse & escaping Tetrapanax suckers
10:36 Brassaiopsis mitis, Schefflera, Pseudopanax & Metapanax exotic evergreens & Dicksonia tree fern update
16:57 Arid Section including winter protection for Cycas revoluta Sago Palms, Agave and
20:27 Tropical plant greenhouse - rare houseplants and overwintering tender garden exotics
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George