Discover a lush tropical style garden hidden away behind a terrace of red brick houses. Packed full of lush tropical plants, giant foliage and exotic flowers, I have squeezed so many plants and garden ideas into my small tropical garden. This garden space has transformed so many times over the years, so it’s about time I shared another update video.
In this video:
00:01 Introduction to my small tropical garden.
00:31 Changes in my tropical style garden.
01:16 Exotic canopy plants for my tropical garden.
01:40 Catalpa bignonoides ‘Aurea’
01:45 Rhus typhinia
01:59 Tillandsia air plants
02:14 Albizia jullibrissin ‘Ombrella’
02:23 My tropical garden path
02:37 Rosa ‘Redova’ for early tropical colours
03:10 Abutilon megapontanicum as an exotic climber.
03:24 Aeonium tabuliforme growing in a crack for tropical effect.
03:33 Tillandsia usenoides as a tropical effect epiphyte.
03:40 Long narrow partly shaded tropical border.
03:50 Billbergia bromeliad, great tropical plants.
04:00 Impatiens, Begonias and Ferns in my shady tropical garden.
04:14 Walking down my tropical garden path.
04:26 Puya sp. growing out of Balinese style pot.
04:45 Leucadendron ‘Safari Sunset’
04:44 Salvia macrophylla ‘Purple Leaf Form’
05:01 Water bowl exotic garden water feature.
05:09 Persicaria ‘Purple Fantasy’
05:22 Begonia pedatifida, Hardy tropical foliage. 05:40 Aeonium Zwarktop
05:50 Colocasia ‘Thai Giant’ grown from seed.
06:07 Colocasia ‘Aloha’
06:25 Colocasia ‘Royal Hawaiian’
06:30 Aroids for tropical gardens
06:45 Exotic plants on my tropical garden.
07:01 Rubus linneatus for tropical leaves.
07:30 Schefflera taiwaniana for evergreen tropical foliage.
08:00 Fatsia polycarpa ‘Green Fingers’ for hardy tropical leaves.
08:15 Roldana cristobalensis for purple foliage.
08:40 Tropical Papaya, Vasconella pubescens.
08:55 Impatiens tinctoria, grey hardy plant with tropical leaves and flowers.
09:11 Impatiens auricoma x bicaudata, fantastic tropical hybrid from Madagascar.
09:35 Brugmansia ‘Maya’, early tropical flowers.
09:54 Brassiopsis mitis, one of my dream tropical plants.
10:30 View over my plant bench, a spot for tropical plants that are for sale.
10:45 Introduction to exotic Iochroma plants
10:55 Iochroma cyaneum tropical flowers.
11:00 Iochroma australis ‘Red’ tropical flowers.
11:11 Iochroma australis white flowered form.
11:21 Iochroma australis ’Blue Trumpets’ seed grown plant.
11:35 My favourite spot to sit and enjoy my tropical garden.
12:00 Tropical canopy plants starting to grow well.
12:25 My wife’s side of the garden, inspired by cottage style plants and informal planting.
13:20 Conclusion, like, subscribe and love tropical gardens!
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36 Comments
Looks amazing! I've gone tropical in my small garden as well, so much fun. I don't have a canopy yet as I just bought my house last year. I was wondering about that Albizia you have. I have several Albizia seedlings that I'm growing to sell but I considered one for the garden as well but I understand it can grow up to 15 meters. Aren't you afraid that will happen to yours or do think you can cut it back each year?
What a lovely garden
How do you take care of your begonia luxurians in the summer and then the winter?
Looking really good this year! Much prefer it without the stream! Well done!
Really nice : )
Great tour Craig. Beautiful foliage choices. Very inspiring👍
That’s an amazing change from how the garden looked in other videos, you have been so busy with starting the plant selling also. How do you cope with watering all those pots, do you have an irrigation system? You are tempting us by showing all these fascinating plants.
Great video. Love the brassaiopsis mitis iv been looking for about 12 months for one but there not to easy to find. Dont want it is about big leaves that just make me want it.
Beautiful garden! Amazing to think all those plants are in pots when they look planted. But you don't have a single palm tree. Do you dislike Brahea Armata ( Mexican Blue ), Butia Odorata, Jubaea Chilensis, the many varieties of Trachycarpus and Chamaerops etc ? Or maybe you have another reason ? I cannot imagine a tropical garden without a palm tree.
So beautiful 😍 👍
https://youtu.be/2stlC1pOZzE
Amazing! What is your Zone? Mine is 7b so all my tropicals have to go in my greenhouse for the winter
Beautiful garden! Thanks for sharing!
You have a very beautiful Tropical garden. Love your collections. Lots of styled leaves that I don't see here in the Philippines.
Thanks for this video. A lot of inspiration . Stay safe.
Do you take all these plants indoors when it snows ? 🍀🍃🌿🌱
Awesome garden.
why u whispering ???
Wow you have beautiful plants collection
I kept a water bowl like yours, but all I get is mosquitoes laying there, maybe it's because were not far from a river?
Hi to you have some seed of roldana cristobalensis? And keep on going your little jungle look very lush
I’ve got a mixed garden with lots of tropical plants now, but also cottage garden style plants.
I love all colors, so I want more than just the greens from tropicals.
A nice plant that flowers great along with both the cottage plants and the tropicals are my four o’clocks and also cleome. They self sees everywhere and I encourage that.
I planted some white flowering tobacco in a flowerbed and they self seed too. The scent is heavenly in the evenings.
Gorgerous garden. Thank you for taking us there. ( from Indonesia) 💐🌹🌺🌳🌴🌱
Beautiful plants and a great weekend
Just rewatched this, it's beautiful, love that your trees have grown into a canopy. Also love the scheffleras, love the shape if the leaves, like fingers. Also noticed all your succulents dotted around which I love. Amazing growth and great work growing from seeds. Looks like the rains have finally stopped today, its been non stop rain in Lancashire.
Hi Craig, just rewatched this sat in my garden, so beautiful. I too have a small garden, my neighbours trees are my canopy, there's a gorgeous lime coloured acer tree which overhangs, an I have an overgrown mini Rose covering my pergola, it's getting cut back soon, we have birds nesting every year, but it's gone crazy. I think my garden is smaller than yours. I have a mix of tropical and summer bedding. Lots of inspiration from your garden. I'm glad you've finally got your canopy. What are the trees called? I got the golden India bean one, not others.
Love your videos, what part of the country are you?
So beautiful😍 garden🌳🌿🌺
Is that in the yard?
well done great space …ill be watching . Hope i can film my own one day ..
Do you use a special soil mix for you pots? Please.
You may of got wanting to do my own section of Tropicals. Cheers.
Stunning garden. Could you please name the rose again. Sorry I couldn't catch the name.
Omg absolutely beautiful 🌿🌿🌿🌿💜
https://youtu.be/2stlC1pOZzE
Very nice . Lush.
Can you grow any of these in full sun I have a part shade side and a sunny side of my garden I'm trying to find tropical plants that I can plant on the sunny side I love the big leaves but I think there all supposed to be in part shade
Hi, I notice you have a begonia luxurians in your garden. You don’t have any for sake by any chance?
What is the tree 1:57. I can't quite catch what you're saying