Today’s video is an autumn walk around the jungle area of my UK tropical style Lincolnshire garden, talking about my gardening successes and failures this year now we’re in late October and my plans, projects and planting changes for next year. The garden has certainly taken a backseat this year but despite a lack of time and a cool summer, a lot of the structural plants especially have grown surprisingly well! In today’s video I talk about tree ferns, Gunnera x cryptica, hardy begonias and summer bedding plants for UK tropical bedding plants as well as garden challenges like root competition, dealing with windy areas and whether it’s now the right time to remove some of the filler plants…
0:00 Intro
02:07 Hardy exotics border with Borinda papyrifer blue bamboo, Trachycarpus hybrid palm and Musa basjoo
4:41 Tree fern avenue – successes and changes to my shady, narrow entrance to the jungle garden
9:37 Fast growing Trachycarpus Princeps hybrid, Gunnera and the jungle clearing area
12:00 Two cool bamboos – Borinda lushuiensis & Fargesia angustissima plus Trachycarpus nova fast growing palm
14:49 Mixed tropical border, mixed results! Tropical bedding plants vs. hardy shade loving shrubs and perennials
19:19 Gunnera x cryptica, a growing problem…
21:45 Farfugium ‘Green Giant’, shade planting and is time up for the filler plants?
28:42 A struggling tree fern and possible remedies…
31:52 Musa basjoo – a good year for my hardy banana plants but soon time for winter protection, maybe!
33:30 Reflection of my jungle garden this year on a gloomy autumn day and plans for 2025
39:00 A surprise Ensete recovery on my living bamboo compost heap!
40:07 My jungle garden, updates, progress and changes for 2025
As mentioned in the video, I got some of my hardy Begonias from Vic Silver ‘ The Palm Grower’: https://thepalmgrower.com / https://www.instagram.com/thepalmgrower/?hl=en
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Thanks,
George
29 Comments
Your jungle side with those tree ferns is INCROYABLE!
Wonderful.but .how much watering do u do to stop it all flopping xxx
Wonderful George
Nice, I was waiting for a garden update 🙂 will watch it later today
Hi George. Great video, as always. How is the bottom of the garden coming on? I'm looking forward to an update .👍
The tree fern at 29:42 is not doing very well because the ivy behind it deprives it of the rain and absorbs all the water it needs!
Great video George, love all the tree ferns especially. I look forward to seeing how your other garden projects are progressing at both ends of the garden when you get some time x
Great video George, looking forward to what your going to do, your garden is beautiful 😊
Haha yeah those Lobelia are weepy wimps😆. Yours still are more upright than mine though, so it could be worse😋
Hi george. Fantastic vid. When it started off going into your jungle and the music started i thought that maybe you were going to suprise everyone with an orchestra sitting there casually playing under yer gunnies and ferns.🤣
Hi george , just a quick question- ive removed the flower from all my fatsias,as i understand they can give dogs bad tummy problems if they eat them. Have i done the right thing ?Cheers mate, looking foward to seeing yer garden transfirm in new year.👍 All the best . Steve.
Love those tree ferns ❤
Great to see your garden again George, I’ve missed it.
Still looking great.
I’ve been waiting for your next clip 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
Very happy to be back to your Jungle George. Looking really great! The visit of the rest of the garden coming
soon i guess…It's definitetly the year of tree ferns and Trachycarpus spp. The huge Princess (I mean Princeps…)
is a Queen now! A lot of gorgeous plants here, so i will name only one, the ultinate cutie/beauty Fargesia angustissima!
Thank you George, see you!🙋♂💚
George your garden is great. It just takes time. You have a family and they come first. You will have time to work on your garden in years to come. Maybe you can introduce your daughter to gardening and she can help you. Don't get in a hurry.
Excellent stuff, this Carl guy sounds a right idiot missing out on that plant!
Great video George… your garden really does look amazing !!! and like you, I like the way it changes as the season comes to an end
For me, this is only the second year of growing a Tropical Style garden, and I want to thankyou and your videos for opening up this whole new hobby to me👍
Hi George, we have been watching all of your garden visits. However, it is wonderful to finally see your garden, all looking lush and green. Hope you are also going to find time to finish the fire pit. Best wishes.
Thanks for the tour. I think your garden has really filled out in several areas this year. I think your Gunnera can definitely be trained a little with a small wall and some support. It'll be a interesting little project to see the results at the end of next season. That's if you have time juggling work, kids, dogs, etc, etc.
You are literally George of the jungle
Hi George – as always so great to get another video from you and one of your own garden! I have loved the summer visits to other gardens you did!
I have to say, I have been following you from since before you moved house, but this year with all the rain and occasional sun it really feels like your garden has really established in to itself! I think I remember the part where your bench is was for a greenhouse that didn't amount to anything sadly, but i do remember you planting all that up around it in readiness. Just goes to show how buying small and having patience returns dividends! I cannot grow Coleus or Queen Victoria Lobelia. I have tried and the slugs just decimate them by the morning. Even Tall brugmansia and Salvia Aamistad I can find decimated in the morning. I'd welcome your advice or opinion on pest control at some point please. I am thinking about nemetodes. Looking forward to seeing the rest of the garden next year and the fire pit!
Great to see an update George! I can't believe just how much everything has filled out and all those tree ferns look spectacular! You've really created a great atmosphere in the garden now. Look forward to seeing what next year brings with the changes and additions.
Nice to see your garden again George. looks great ❤
nice to see how everythings growing George that princeps hybrid is something else now ,it really is a stunning looking palm.
Great update on the garden George, can I ask you ,do you leave the gingers in the ground over winter . I planted in 12 ginger rhizomes in April in pots to start them then transferred them to the garden however none of them flowered due to or rubbish summer here in Dublin as we had little or no heat and not a lot of sun. Thanks
Hello George just came across your Channel I absolutely love your Tree Ferns my favorite I only have 2 Ferns they so easy I cut one in half share with my friend in less than a week grow new leafs it's very sunny here in Cape Town please make the same video just with the music you played in the background love it I'll watch over and over Soo relaxing thank you garden friend
Why is my ensete maurelii short and fat?😅 is there a way to encourage it to grow upwards rather than outwards?