UK TROPICAL GREENHOUSE | 6ft x 8ft Jungle Sanctuary

A tour of our entire collection of tender and tropical plants that are sheltering from winter in the Grow Paradise greenhouse. Every plant name will be included, so grab and pen and paper to list down any tropical plant names that you’d like to add to your own tropical style garden.

There is a huge variety of tropical style plants happily growing away in the our greenhouse at this time of year. Being winter in the UK, the greenhouse requires additional heat on colder nights. Many of our tropical and exotic plants cope with temperature drops down to 5ºC, making this the minimum temperature we experience inside of this protected environment.

Despite the shorter days and cooler temperatures our tropical greenhouse plant collection is still thriving (mostly). We’ve got half-hardy plants such as Musa banjo, Musa cheesemanii and Abutilons benefiting from the frost free environment. True tender tropical plants also continue to survive in a sea-dormant state, plants such as Brugmansia, Justice and Bromeliads.

In this tour I’ll share some exciting new additions to the Grow Paradise plant collection as well as some plans for the online shop next year.

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00:56 The Grow Paradise Tropical greenhouse
02:15 Tropical style plants growing in the greenhouse
26:17 Large exotic plants in the greenhouse
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Hey what’s up everyone I’m Craig and this is the gr Paradise Garden and in this video I’m going to be showing you around my Greenhouse which is full of tropical style plants and tens of plants that need a little bit of extra protection and they’re in there because

At this time of year in the UK even in the south of the UK where we are we are getting nighttime temperatures that are below freezing we’ve had several nights now that are at minus 3° C followed by intense heavy rain that caused quite severe flooding locally but our garden

Was resilient and then we didn’t experience any flooding here and then we’ve had mild temperatures so the weather is all over the place um but it’s been nice and consistent in the greenhouse so I’m going to show you some of the plants there that I’ve never featured on the grow Paradise YouTube

Channel before and one of them’s flowering and it’s a plant I’ve been searching for for ages and I needed it to flower so I knew it was the plant that I was looking For so this is the grow Paradise Greenhouse it’s a standard domestic Greenhouse it’s only 6t by 8T in length it’s got a relatively High roof but not as high as I’d have liked because I’ve had to leave some of the larger tender plants outside and it’s where I overwinter those larger

Plants plants like this mua cheese Mani banana that I’ve grown from seed and it just needs a little bit of extra protection behind me I’ve got some autons um angel trumpets as SP Mania plants there so many just weird and wonderful plants but it’s also where we

Grow stock for the grow Paradise online shop which is closed at this time of year because we’re doing some technical upgrades on the website but it also gives us an opportunity to sort through the plants that we’re propagating we love to produce as many homegrown plants

As we possibly can in this space so I’ll move some of these bigger plants so that we can see all around the greenhouse I’ll grab the camera and I will give you a full tour of what’s growing in the grow Paradise tropical style Greenhouse all right let’s take this coat

Off and I’ll grab the camera and show you around okay so this is the greenhouse with the larger plants moved out I’m going to give you a tour from left higher shelves we’ll go around to the right and then we’ll come down to these lower shelves and anything that might be underneath

The benches then hopefully I won’t miss anything so first is our aeoniums now this is our own cuttings for our homegrown plants aeoniums are super easy to propagate from cuttings I’ve done a couple of videos now showing you how to do that and I’ll put links in the top

Corner and in the description so if you want to have a go at propagating your own aonian plants you can do that now there’s three varieties at the moment that I’m propagating this is aium red Edge which grows with so many branches you can see this cutting is already

Branched out and obviously it’s got these red edges to the leaves which earn it its name just beside that is one that was new to me this year and it’s been really really good this is a onium Cornish pixie now this is a Cornish cultivar um and it doesn’t grow with

Enormous rosettes like some of the others do but it forms a really nice Mound and for some reason slugs and snails haven’t touched this C ofart at all um and it’s been quite cold resilient so I’ve left one outside with a little bit of protection but this is

All of the cuttings I’ve taken of aium Cornish pixie um I’m hoping to spread a few more around my garden as well as ADD in lots of these to the online shop and you can see there’s Roots popping out of the bottom of the pots now so these when the

Shop reopens in 2024 will be available to order online for delivery across the UK and just over from that is all of my homegrown uh Brads now there’s a mix of achia Neo regelia and oh and Bill bergia yes these are all pups of the main plants um a lot

Of them were these plants that are hanging on the top of the greenhouse and the pups were produced off of the side like they are here and just Cho them off and I’m putting them into these tiny tiny little plastic pots just to form some Roots they don’t really need to be in

Pots at all but it helps to keep them upright and then I’ll be selling hopefully lots of Brad cultivar on the online shop in 2024 and just at the back here is my prickly pear now this is a Hardy prickly pear it’s a pantia humifusa and this one grows horizontally rather than upright

Like the majority of prickly pears this will tolerate snow ice frosts all that happens is in Winter the leaves go a bit crinkly like this and they might go a purpley sort of color in spring and summer it quickly recovers and continues to grow now there’s three plants here

That I’m going to use as stock plants for propagation and this was really popular on the online shop this year so we’re going to be adding more in the 2024 season but you can see at the back I’ve kept one for myself that’s actually growing one of its prickly peir fruits

It’s this red color I’m hoping it’s going to swell a bit more cuz there’s not much to eat there but I’m looking forward to giving that a go here’s another aium this is aium Fiesta variegated aium I lost kind of the bulk of my main plant so this was me

A last ditch attempt to save it and I’m pleased to say it looks looks as though it’s rooted and I’m going to be able to save this plant and add it to my collection again now those larger aeoniums I was telling you about are ones like these

These were all cuttings but they grow much larger than the ones I showed you earlier here we’ve got a mix there’s aonian V which flushes purple in sunlight and it goes this green sort of color at this time of year when the days are shorter we’ve got aium pomegranate

Aium Cyclops in there we and this is aium Cornish Rose and again it’s a nice purple Lea one but you can see it branches really really freely and this was new to the Garden this year so I’m pleased I managed to take a cutting that’s worked cuz I lost most of them to

Slugs and snails and that bright purple flower that’s probably catching your eye is tibas viliana I’m hoping that flower was close to going but look at the color of those petals it’s almost iridescent now this is a shrub I’ve always struggled to over winter and it doesn’t survive in my

Garden I’ve seen Gardens down in the south of England in Cornwall where this plant thrives Outdoors all year round and they get masses of these bright purple flowers and I’m a bit envious of that but so far this one is surviving and I think the trick is just to keep it a lot

Drier now in front of that is a brass opsis mtis that got a bit hit by cold this one is still growing in a pot and I’m figuring out what to do with this so keep your eyes ped because it may become available in the future behind that is my Cipher mandria

Betum which is the tamarillo plant or tree tomato and it’s a really good foliage plant but it will produce edible fruits about the size of an egg that are quite bitter and they’re made into Chutney in South America I believe here is a Alasia I was gifted

By Michael A friend of mine who runs Misfit plants and it’s been really good and I’m going to pot it up next spring try and make it a feature in the garden in perhaps a toban style pot oh God I just got caught on that the amount of times that’s

Happened just next to that is another colocasia this is kakia faroh’s mask one of those really desirable plants that I managed to Source quite a lot of last year and sell through the online shop and this is just developing its signature kind of recurved leaves with that threedimensional ribbing and the

Colors are looking fantastic as well and next to that is anabalon now although these will actually take a lot of the cold that experience in the garden they never seem to recover as quickly in Spring and because I’m on heavy clay soil these plants hate to be water logged they like free draining

Soil so by GR ing them in the greenhouse through winter and keeping them in containers with a well- drained mix for me they Thrive a lot better but I have been speaking to people that grow them outdoors in the UK all year round planted out into their Gardens and they

Grow really well but for me these have to be grown in pots and they flower so much better if they get a bit of protection in Winter now this stump there’s not much to look at but this is that giant Salvia that isn’t a Salvia but it’s got giant

Leaves and Salvia like flowers it’s subul gura banesia or the other way around next to that looks like a dandelion this is the tree dandelion sonus fruticosus that I grew from seed I did have one in the garden a couple of years back and I lost it to the cold so

I’m protecting this one in a pot through winter and I’ll plant it out in Spring this really nice Leaf is sataria parolia the Palm grass it’s got beautiful corrugation on the leaves and it grows just sort of this sort of height about 60 cm maybe up to a

Meter and it looked great planted out in the garden I’ve left the plant out to test it for hardiness and I’m going to try and add more of these to my own tropical style Garden as well as to the grow Paradise shop this year I’ve managed to save some seeds from my

Garden so hopefully the fresh seeds will germinate and we’ll have lots of plants available for you all there’s some bmana cuttings here this is a new cultiva that I’m adding to my garden I say new it’s actually one of the oldest available it’s Charles Grimaldi and it’s a hybrid so it’s set

To be one of the most reliable flowering bman because I want loads of flowers in the garden next year and this will produce yellowy orange flowers on mass maybe not this year because the cuttings have got a lot of growing to do but there’s three of these I’m going to try

And grow them in huge containers to create a really stunning display over the next few years down here is kufa insignis or the cigar plant this is still flowering even in December with a bit of protection in the greenhouse and it’s producing a lot of seed this is

A great colorful plant for underplanting your larger shrubs so I’m hoping I can produce a lot of these homegrown plants fuel in the grow Paradise shop this is something I don’t think I’ve shown on the channel before now I’ve grown these from seed and again I’ll be growing lots more from seed for

The grow Parise sh up this is fighter lacer and a cult ofar called lacab boom now fighter lacer sometimes has the common name of American poke weed but this particular cultivar is really nice because it has these bright pink flowers followed by dark berries that are held

High above this pinky purple foliage so it makes a really good companion plant against the greens cuz it adds a bit of color and I think I really like the pairing of this with this colocasia Redemption now Redemption it’s the colic Asia that has this amazing black glossy

Leaf and pink vation and you can see that the pink vation is just starting to form on this one so I’ve bought it into the greenhouse just to guarantee that it survive till next year cuz I’d love to share that coloration with you all so fight laa lacab boom and colocasia

Redemption at the back is one of my biggest Brads this is Amia blanchetiana and this is the orange form now in sunlight it flashes bright orange but at this time of year it’s starting to revert to a more greeny color now I’ve tucked it under the bench here because

It’s underneath plants that don’t need a lot of water um and it’s happy just to stay there sort of receiving a bit of tough love through winter but as soon as it’s warm enough it’ll go back outside into full sun to color up beautifully next to that is col no

Cana um Cana Cleopatra this is the one with the burgundy streaks through the leaves and it has by colored flowers red and yellow flowers this is a really nice plant now I’ve kept this one because I’m going to use it for propagation to multiply our stock and hopefully add

More to the grow Paradise shop next year behind that is a load of Bill burgio plants again these are brats that I’ve propagated from Pops the offshoots that I’ll be adding to the online shop for sale I absolutely love Brads they give you so much color with very very little effort

And next to that these sorry looking plants are a plant that I’ve been after for years and I’ve never managed to Source the correct plant I’ve been sold the plant I’ve been looking for but it’s always been mislabeled now this is justia carneer and it’s the yellow flowering

Form or rare and the amount of times I’ve bought this and I’ve waited for it to bloom and it comes out a pink purple sort of color but this one is actually blooming it in yellow so the seller I’m so grateful has labeled it properly and is selling the correct plant now I’ll

Admit the leaves have seen better days there obviously been attacked by slugs snails it was covered in Apes when I received it but they’re in rehab I’m nursing them back to health and they’re next to the propagator here so they get all of the ambient warmth to help them get through

Winter now the high shelf on the right hand side I’ve got some liilia bamboo zti just growing on again I’ll put this into a big pot in Spring and it will grow very very quickly some seedlings of musia woni here as backup plants and in case I lose

The one that’s growing in the garden couple more young fighter laca lacab booms and Bonia luxurians now a lot of you try and grow Bonia luxurians and you bring it indoors for winter this Bonia although it likes warmth absolutely abely hates being indoors whether it’s the central heating or the changeable

Temperatures I don’t know but they always shrivel up if you’ve got somewhere that’s just above 0° and has constant temperature they seem so much happier there I’ve actually seen them survive outside in frost free Gardens in the UK so don’t bring them inside put them on your porch if you don’t have a

Radiator there maybe a conservatory if it’s unheated or in just the warmest spot you can find outside with a bit of extra protection and it’s likely to be happier unless the ambient temperature drops well below zero now these pots are cuttings of that beautiful Vine leafed Salvia that I grew

In the garden this year with the blue flowers it’s Salvia Serana and I’m pleased to say that these rooted really well in water and I’ve just potted them up now into well- drained potting mix and they’re growing away I haven’t checked the roots actually recently no no roots po popping out the

Bottom yet but we’ll give it time just going to keep them in the greenhouse which is kept to about 5° c not much warmer than that on cold nights because we can’t afford to heat it and at the back is some more aeoniums it’s that aium V we just run out of

Space on the side where I’m growing the rest of the aeoniums and then this butchered plant is impatiens tuberosa a pink flowering paans and every tip has been cut off because I’m currently rooting cuting inside and multiplying this plant because it’s a really nice addition and that bright pink color goes really

Really well with plants like the fighter lacer and that color on colocasia Redemption and I’ve grown the orange form in ption already come across B Cordata for so many years so it’s nice to try something a bit different below that is some neelia briliant just a couple more this

Is copia poly Stucker this is a rainforest tree that I’ve grown from seed this one would be in the propagator for a bit of added protection because they’re super rare super hard to find and quite slow growing initially especially here in the UK but this one’s

Growing a bit too tall so it’s out here I do have a couple in the propagator as well now it’s called the white copia because the bottom of the leaves have this silvery white color and this Leaf is developing its loed pattern as it matures it gets beautiful really deep

Loaves and it’s one of the trees they use in the Eden project and at Q Gardens to create the canopy and it looks amazing so if I can get this to grow in a large pot in our UK tropical style Garden it’s going to be an absolute

Stunner and just here are seoni now these plants are crosses hybrids very very recently introduced to Market between aeoniums which is those large leav um succulents at the top there and Seer vums which are the more traditionally grown kind of henen chicks or house leaks that you see and by

Hybridizing them one they get hybrid Vigor so they’ve got the best genetics both of the parent plants the’re inter genetic parent plants so they’re really vigorous Growers and two you get the size of the aeonium and the colors of the aium but with potential hardiness of house leaks which

Can survive outside beneath snow and frosts now I’ve got three different cultivar here one of which won Chelsea plant of the year last year so this one is syoni Destiny I think no stonum Sienna now this one flushes bright red in sunlight and you can see it’s colored up

Slightly here I’m growing this one on and I’ll be adding that to the tropical style Garden next year this is stonum Diamond I think it lives up to its name it’s a really nice rosette form with pointed leaves and this one is the plant that one Chelsea planted the year the Year

Just gone it is stonum Destiny now this one’s nice because the leaves will flush this really dark purple color in full sun but in Winter that coloration drops away a bit and they will all grow relatively large now I believe that all three of these hybrids came from one pollination one cross

Pollination and this is the variability in the seed batch that came up and each is now being cultivated and sold as its own cultivar in the industry and I think these are going to be really really popular and I’m hoping to add a few of these to the grow Paradise shop next

Year because if they will grow as big as aeoniums but be as as tough and resilient as um Seer voms then I think we should all give them a go now I’ve got them up on the top shelf here because I’m trying to encourage some of these brighter

Colors to form and we’ll see if that happens and then in the veto pod propagator we had a look at this a couple of weeks ago we’ve got my abalon red tiger where I snapped the branches and try to do some impromptu cuttings we’ll see if that pays

Off we’ve got um Bonia pedata feda Leaf cuttings coming on here and then loads of our colocasia Redemption plants which again revert to Green when they don’t get much light these are just kind of staying nice and toasty in here for the winter months now if I move this lid

Over and make sure it doesn’t fall in you’ll see another one of those poly Stacker or copia poly Stucker the white copia and you can see how the leaf form has changed as it’s matured so the first leaves to come out were almost whole then the next leaves

Started to form some of that lobe formation then slightly more here and it will just get more and more clear and defined as the plant matures and hopefully next year we’re going to get to enjoy some really really tropical foliage and then Justus this here carneer the standard

Form of that yellow flowering one at the back so this is the pink flowering one that I’ve been growing in the garden for many years this is some homegrown plants being propagated ready for the nursery shop next year what have we missed I don’t think I stuck to the

Order that I said I was going to do left to right I always do this I’m distracted by colorful things MOA Basu plants I’ve currently got a multi- buy special offer on these where if you buy three you get discount on every single plant and some fattier polycarpa now

This is a really really really Nic Lea form of fats here and but these plants are just a bit too small for me to be happy to sell them online so I’m growing them on a bit so that you’ll receive healthy strong plants in 2024 these ferns are tree ferns New

Zealand tree Ferns and they’re young but these will grow very very quickly and will grow a trunk in a year or two they’re much faster growing than dixia Antarctica that more commonly grown tree phone that we see these are Saia cerai and I’ve got some younger ones

Here and then these are the ones that are currently available on the grow Paradise shop or they will be when the shop reopens and this is three pots of cuttings of um euphobia cross pter and the cultivar John Phillips now all of you have been asking

Me am I going to be growing this in 2024 will it be available in the online shop the answer is yes I can now confirm these have rooted and there will be young plants available just in front of that you can see our next batch of aeonium cuttings

The great thing with aeoniums is you can cut them and then let that fresh cut canis over for a few days so you don’t have to rush if you’re busy you can just leave them there to car us over I’ve got a pop of puya alpestris the sapphire puya and these are ready

For potting on now let’s go underneath the benches and see what I’m growing colocasia pink China Hardy but these are stock plants that I just keep inside of the greenhouse couple more abutilon that I’ve cut back hard and I’m just keeping here to keep them frost free and dry so

They’ll recover quickly in Spring like I say I’ve got a tetr panic doesn’t need to be in the greenhous house at all um but I’m contemplating giving this one away so keep your eyes out for that there’s my sugar cane purple sugarcane again I’ve cut it right back I

Just keep it in here because it keeps it frost free um and I keep it nice and dry free winter and it quickly recovers when I plant it out in spring and summer this bizar looking Leaf is another abalon you can see why they call them the flowering

Maple that leaf is so Maple like now this one is pictum tomsia and it’s nice because it’s a bit of a scrambly one it’s it works well tied against the trellis these blotchy variegated leaves and then I think it’s red or yellow flowers on it and then there’s the parent plant of

My justia Cara again cut to a height so that I can just tuck it underneath the bench there through the winter months and it doesn’t take up too much space and in Winter it doesn’t do a lot of growing so I’m not worried about it growing and touching the bench

There and under here here are some more brats there’s a bill bergia and Amia and then some larger aeoniums now last year I experimented and left so many aeoniums out in the garden and they didn’t survive so this year this is a great spot for them because it’s tucked

Underneath the propagator so they don’t get moisture here they stay dry and it’s by our heater so all moisture has blown off them on cold nights and here they love it they keep growing they seem to like it cool and a little bit Shady in winter but they all lose their color cuz

They’re not getting enough sunlight now I’m just going to show you some of the bigger plants as I move them back into the greenhouse and you’ll see how I struggle with space um but it’s okay whe there’s a will there’s a way and we’ll figure it out just putting the

Lid back on the propagator there before I forget so we’ll start with the brg Mania now these brgm here are as tall as me now still growing in a pot because as I say I want to add a lot more flowers to the grow Paradise Garden next year so

I’ve got the new Charles Gand moldi hybrid ones that I showed you earlier plus these mature plants that I’ve been growing for a couple of years and I’ve grown them as single stemmed plants so that hopefully the flowers will be up nice and high so they just live at the

Back there it gives me room sort of to come in and check on the seedlings and the propagator another one here this one’s a bit bigger I might take some cuttings from this and another abalon smashed it into the camera this one is a Buton Lily and it has this nice

Red flower the good thing with keeping them protected in winter is they flower all winter long not at the rate they do in Spring and Summer but it’s nice to come in the greenhouse and see a bit of color and then that mua cheese Mani I told you about earlier this one’s

Nice it’s got much narrower leaves than mua Basu with a silvery Underside and a silvery blue stem so I’m going to put this into a much bigger pot next year and sort of grow it as a specimen plant in the grow Paradise Garden I’m also hoping to add some very

New very colorful bananas to the Garden next year and I’m hoping that all of you will be able to as well but you’ll have to keep your eyes peeled on the gr Paradise shop for that hopefully you found this video useful and at the very least it’s given you some ideas for

Tropical plants that you can add to your garden in the coming years and it’s definitely got me excited for next year’s growing season it does every time I come in here especially when I see all this foliage and all these flowers now this video was actually requested by a

User on our social Forum Mikey Mike who asked for a tour of the greenhouse setup so there it is in a coming video I’ll be doing an indepth guide to how I heat my Greenhouse including some of the smart Tech that I’ve utilized to automate a

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