An early September tour of my UK tropical style garden, walking through my leafy North Lincolnshire jungle and talking about how my exotic plants came through the colder winter freezes earlier in the year and have generally grown surprisingly well considering the cool, wet summer this year! As always, I've tried to include as many hardy exotic plant names, planting ideas, overwintering successes, plant failures and care tips to hopefully help or inspire you with your exotic garden. Today's main topics are filler plants - great for instant impact and creating a lush, colourful garden but can they overstay their welcome, the evolution of an exotic garden and how some plants like the Gunnera manicata / cryptica might just have overgrown their space! The garden has been a low maintenance project this year, with most of my efforts focused on continuing my fire pit sunken patio and Mediterranean garden transformation so it may lack the finesse and finish of a perfect summer display with bedding plants and containers BUT I think it's helpful to see just how well a lot of plants have done with no care whatsoever! From Dicksonia antartica to Canna altensteinii, Schefflera taiwaniana to Borinda papyrifera bamboo it's actually been a great growing season for a lot of exciting and colourful tropical style plants, so I hope you enjoy seeing them and, as always, just ignore the weeds...
Feel free to leave any of your tropical style or jungle plant questions or experiences in the comments, it's great to hear from you!
0:00 Intro
2:14 U.K. Tropical Style Jungle Garden Tour - small foliage border plants
4:07 Borinda papyrifera blue bamboo growth rate
4:44 Tetrapanax, musa basjoo, Trachycarpus princeps hybrid palm
6:01 Musa sp. ‘Tibet’ with Cyathea medullaris & Schefflera taiwaniana winter losses
8:23 Huge Container display - Hedychium ginger, Canna musifolia & Miscanthus lutarioriparius
9:53 Dicksonia antartica overwintering successes and failures
12:24 U.K. Jungle garden full of exotic palms, bamboo and banana plants
16:45 Fargesia angustissima and Borinda lushuiensis fast growing & tall bamboo plants
19:03 Ensete banana with ‘the strangles’, Alocasia & Begonia luxurians
21:32 A HUGE Gunnera manicata / cryptica clump - my biggest plant leaves!
25:48 Easy and low maintenance tropical style plants which come back every year
29:45 Tetrapanax papyrifer pupping after cold winter freeze damage
32:59 Musa basjoo, Eucalyptus glaucescens, Trachycarpus wagnerianus palm & tree ferns
35:42 Butia eriospatha cold hardy feather palm recovering from U.K. winter freeze damage
37:09 Phyllostachys vivax ‘Aureocaulis’ and screening blue bamboo plants
42:43 Hardy exotic & Mediterranean garden plants for sunny, exposed garden border
48:51 Sunken patio garden project specimen palms, yuccas, agaves & Mediterranean plants
50:46 Butyagrus / Butiagrus eriospatha rare cold hardy hybrid feather palm
55:14 Eucalyptus & olive tree grove and sandy raised beds with Yucca Rostrata & grasses
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George