Transforming My UK Tropical Garden: A Border Makeover

🌴 Redesigning a Hardy Exotic Border (UK Garden) | Moving Palms, Adding Evergreens & Removing Phytolacca Americana 🌿

Welcome back to Tropical Glos! In today’s video, we’re giving our UK tropical garden border a full redesign — removing the overgrown Phytolacca americana, repositioning hardy palms, and adding evergreen structure for all-season interest.

If you love hardy tropical gardening and want to create an exotic garden look in a temperate UK climate, this video is for you.

👉 In this video:
0:00 Welcome to Tropical Glos
0:45 Removing Phytolacca americana
2:00 Re-planting palms for structure
5:00 Potting up Alstroemeria ‘Indian Summer’
8:00 Dividing & propagating tropical plants
9:00 Transplanting a Trachycarpus ‘Wagnerianus’ (Waggy Palm)
10:00 Planting a Loquat Tree (Eriobotrya japonica)
12:00 Finished look & plans for spring

🌿 Featured plants:

Trachycarpus ‘Wagnerianus’ (Waggy Palm)

Loquat tree (Eriobotrya japonica)

Alstroemeria ‘Indian Summer’

Canna lilies

Phytolacca americana

💡 Learn how to:
✔️ Create a hardy exotic border that survives UK winters
✔️ Add evergreen interest to your tropical garden design
✔️ Propagate and pot up tender perennials for next year
✔️ Keep your tropical garden low-maintenance yet full of structure

If you’re into UK exotic gardening, hardy palms, evergreen planting ideas, or garden makeovers, hit play and see how I redesigned this border for year-round appeal.

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Hi everyone and welcome back to Tropical Gloss. In this video we are going to look at redesigning a exotic border, moving some palms around, adding some hardy evergreen interest and getting rid of this fighter Americana. So stick around and see what we can do. So, regular viewers of this channel will know that we made some changes in this bed a little while ago, a couple of weeks ago, and we removed a filakus spectus out of this area. But now it’s time to make some changes. As you can see, the conscious carrier is in flower, but it is going over. A lot of yellowing of the leaves. Most of plants in this area are coming to the end of their season. So there are some that are going to remain in here and I’m going to also remove some as well. So this vitala Americana is 100% coming out to be replanted. I don’t need such a rampant plant in this area. This custoa also needs to come out. And what I’m going to do is I’m going to just in this area here plant a waggy that is at the back. And I’m also going to put a lowquat tree in this bed, too. So, there’s going to be a lot of evergreen interest in here. So, this is the waggy that will be removed. The canners I’m going to lift and store the ryomes of them. And then we’re just going to have a shuffle around, fit things in, and then eventually in spring, we’re going to move the arial into this position, too. So, first things first, let’s get rid of this thing. So, there actually two plants in here, if you can see me through here. Uh, all supported by these stakes. So, the first thing I’m going to do is I’m going to get rid of these stakes. Let’s wipe these out. I’ve got this Velcro um plant tape which is absolutely brilliant. Um I’ve used it a lot around the garden this year and it’s really worked well. Um it’s got the soft side to go around the plant stems, but it also is very firm and holds things in place a lot. Let’s not damage any plant. So, I’m going to cut stems at the top first. [Music] That’s a beautiful palm. Needs to be seen more. I need to get it out into a better position. Sometimes there’s only one tool for the job. [Music] I watch a guy on YouTube called John Lord and he uses a he uses a pickaxe for most things. Look at that. [Music] Tell me why. [Music] So, I’ve just moved this stone and I can see the root run is going all the way through here. So, it’s just taken over the bed, not only in space, aerial space, but yeah, how much better could this bed have been this year without this plant in here? Who knows? It’s like an alien. And that has already made such a difference. And I hope you agree with me that this wy is too nice to hide at the back of the bed. There you go. Fighter laka gone. Boom. But it wasn’t fight. So now I’ve got a better idea of what’s going on and a bit of the space that uh I can play around with. So next up I’m going to take out this Cassonia spicarta. I’m going to pot this one up. I’ve also got these alramia Indian summer which I’m also going to remove and pot up as well. They’re beautiful plants and uh yeah going to leave in the first carrier. Going to leave in the dia tuber. This is obviously staying here cuz it’s perfect for this position. Oh, just found an eggus down here as well. That’s going to have to be removed. So, we’ve started potting up. I potted up some cia that were in the bed. Going to cut off these stems here. And then I’ll find a pot that it’s going to fit in. 11 cm perfect for that. Whack some compost in. Get the roots so they are nice and comfortable in there. Make sure it’s the right way up. Add some more compost. Shake it around a bit. And that’s it. That’s pretty much it for potting up divisions, etc. Just make sure all the roots are covered. This compost nice and moist anyway, but I am going to water these. Just keep it separated from the coria. But that’s alia Indian summer all potted up. And then we got another one here. As you can see, it’s still got all the top growth on. So, I’m going to cut the top growth off. See whether I can actually divide it any. I will leave this one. So, 11 cm will be fine. Get your pot. Stick some compost in. Good quality compost with perlite for drainage. pretty. We’ll just take out a few of these, I think. Just tease the roots away. There we go. Another free plant. Pop him in. [Music] As you can see, I don’t wear gloves very often. Um, I do like the feel of soil. I might be weird, but I do like the feel of soil on my hands. I don’t like it under my nails and all the dirt that comes with it. But, uh, must be my inner hippie coming through. So, there we go. A little bit of propagation later. And we’re going to have one, two, three, four, five, six, 7, 8, nine also summer. That’s not bad out of three plug plants at the beginning of the season. And I’ve got three cyers all potted up. And then the Cassonius spicata looks a bit limp now, but trust me, this will bounce back really quickly. I don’t need to cut any of the foliage off. This just grows brilliantly. So, it’s a week later since we uh started on this. So, we’re now going to continue. You know, life gets in the way. There’s this pesky thing called work that I have to do that kind of gets in the way. Um, in the meantime, what I did do was move this waggy. Uh, I didn’t film it because it was a long procedure. I wanted to protect the roots as much as possible. So, it was a really careful extraction. Planted it, filled the hole full of water first of all, then planted it, then kept on watering. And I got some fish blood and bone around the base just to help those roots grow a little bit more. So, today we’re going to get the local tree in place and then we can see what other planting space we’ve got for next year. So as you can see we have got the wanky in place all in nice deep hole and the next stage is to get this lowquat tree planted which is going to go in between that first carrier and those canners there. So let’s have a look what we do. So this is the area that I want to put this lowquat tree. And where I’m going to put it is here in this spot just between these canners and this person carrier. Now of course the canners are going to get lifted later on in the year. So uh I’m not too worried about that. But I just want the ryomes to grow as much as possible before I lift them. Okay. So let’s get started. So trusty horrii. Let’s start having a look at what we’ve got to deal with here. I’m just being a little bit careful cuz I don’t want to actually dig up any ryomes if I can. So, it’s a case of careful extraction, careful digging. Plenty of roots under here. So, I’ve got my hole already dug now. And you look at the roots on this. So, uh, yeah, it’s definitely time to p plant it out. So, I’m just going to get some bloodfish and bone, whack it in the hole a little bit, whack it around the back field soil just to give it the best healthy start that we can. Perfect fit. All right, let’s just get the positioning right. That’ll do actually. And we just back fill. So, we’ve not had much rain recently. Well, this year at all really. It’s been a dry autumn so far. So, I am going to give this a good amount of watering. Now, let’s give it all a really good watering in. There is the finished look. Of course, not completely finished cuz we do have a lot of planting to do next year. But the idea is to give this a good amount of evergreen interest because this is what I see out of the kitchen door. So, I need to make sure this looks nice. I’m pleased how this has turned out. I think it’s going to uh really take off next season. I know that lowquat tree well. And uh I think I’ve got a good mix of evergreens and enough space enough place to plant perennials, annuals, etc. for a really great display next year. Thanks for watching and if you haven’t subscribed and you enjoy the content, please do so. It would mean an awful lot to me and makes it all worthwhile when people subscribe and watch. So until the next time, see you