Looking good man!! Can’t wait to see some of those acers get big and that jungle patch grow in too 👍🤩😎 also what’s the spelling of that musa you highlighted at the back? Sounded like mont belliani??
Cheers mate! Had some of those small acers a couple of years now. Need to pot them on later this year! Yeah that ones montbeliardii. Grows very upright in comparison to the normal ensette maurelli.
@@TropicalGardenUK you said it again later on in the video and I got it from that 😂 I like it a lot, does it need overwintering indoors and can you wrap it up? Also you probably already have some decent tricks and soil mix for them but I found 50% ericaceous in your normal mix really got my acre going strong! As long as it’s not already too acidic obvs 💪 😁
@@rickharper938 haha! Yeah unfortunately they need overwintering indoors like the hiniba and maurellii. Looking forward to seeing how much size they put on this year. Yeah? Have you got many more in the garden now? I’ll probably wait until autumn and they’ve dropped their leaves to try and minimise die back next year
Hi, Im happy for you that your garden has put on such growth. Isnt it amazing how nature gives us such happy vibes. Love all your plants and fingers crossed for the rest of this growing season. 🌴🪴🌱🌞
@@TropicalGardenUK all the ones u have in pots as im trying to find things i can put around my pond that are no to tall but are happy to live in pots flowers or leaves thinks that dont cost the earth to buy iv grown 5 cannas from seed and they seem to be doing well so far
@@paulineellison9047 I’d definitely recommend acers for pot growing - you can get some very interesting varieties if you go to specialists as opposed to normal garden centres or supermarkets. They have a variety of leaf shapes and colours through spring all the way to autumn. They do drop their leaves in the winter. A few recommendations - autumn moon, Beni maiko, ukigomo should be easy enough to get ahold of as opposed to the ghost varieties. Are you looking for evergreens or a bit of a mix? Let me know and I can provide some more recommendations on different plants 👍
Your garden is looking amazing, great to see the Brahea making a comeback, you have such a great collection and gives me motivation coz all the slugs and bad weather was kinda getting me down lol but it’s been a decent week and looks like it’s on the up. Bless you btw 😂
@@PaulConnor100 great! Hopefully it won’t take them too long to get growing. I’d say if we have some decent weather but it’s not looking likely at the moment 😂
Great vid amd super useful. I find the grass clipping especially useful for bamboo and just chuck it at the base along with veg cuttings. I would love to try chicken manure pellets but know that my dog would probably much them all up, the little rotter!
I don’t know why I’ve waited so long to do it! I find they normally try to get the chicken manure on the first day or two. If it rains it seems to cover it up pretty well and they seem to leave it alone then!
HELLO THERE from Jackson, Tennessee, U.S.A. in west Tennessee in the southern US in Zone 7b. I attempt to grow a tropical garden here in my home garden. I have had around 30-different varieties of Colocasias but due to a severe and death defining cancer diagnosis and subsequent surgery in March of 2023 that left me crippled and handicapped, I am and have not been able to properly care for them and lost many varieties during my illness, extreme weight loss, chemo therapy and massive surgery. I am beginning to try to garden again, though the surgery robbed my using my right leg normally without a full leg brace and on a walker for the rest of my life. But gardening has saved my life. Love this video and thank you for sharing.
@@mikemillson9572 Hey Mike, very sorry to hear about your health issues. Keep on fighting mate! You sound like a strong bloke getting through all of that. Great to hear that you’re in a position to start back gardening again. Amazing to hear how your garden has helped save you!!
Hi, Youve got agreat collection. I haven't got anything like you but i purchased 4 Eddoes from a multi cultural supermarket last year and grew the bulbs, i planted them out and now they are thriving in my border. They look tropical and im happy with the outcome. Maybe in time ill purchase some but for now i can look at your plants to see how they grow etc. Thankyou for sharing your lovely collection. Keep up the good work 🌴🪴🌱
Amazing - I’ve heard quite a few people do that. I nice cheap way of getting some good plants for the garden! Hopefully I’ll do an update in a month or so to give a bit of an update on how they get on!
Yes you must do a update as that's how I learn about these beautiful plants. Plus please do a update on over wintering these when the time comes as be interesting to see. Many thanks 🌴🪴🌱
@@juliebrace8637 thanks Julie I’ll certainly do that. I’ll perhaps do some overwintering videos later this year on a few different plants in the garden. Hopefully they may be useful!
Nice collection. The Diamond head should get black glossy leaves as it matures and is exposed to sun. Black Marble can be a bit fussy. A good tip with Colocasia is to leave a watering can full in the greenhouse every day and water with that. The hose can dramatically lower the soil temps and Colocasia are stimulated by soil temps.
I found palm trees hate growing in pots ,they get to wet in winter and cantotally freeze through when it's cold and when it's hot they dry out to much 😑 since I planted all mine in the ground I have had no problems 😊 and just cover them in place in winter
Definitely more challenging growing them in pots - a bit more effort required isn’t it! I’ve just picked up a small trachy nanus princeps and put it straight into the ground to give it the best chance. Hopefully we have a half decent summer to help it settle in!
@@TropicalGardenUK Yes, thats what im trying to do, but weirdly they are coming through very slender, instead of the normal chunky leaf, weird. Good luck with yours!
@@skajdius8056 sounds quite similar to what I had - does it look like some of them are joined together and getting smaller each leaf? If so you could try what I’m doing - it looks like mines growing back pretty well
Hi Julie, hopefully it helps anyone suffering with the same problem. I’ll try to give an update in a month as to how it’s getting on. Did yours suffer from the strangles also?
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Thank you! They do don’t they - the leaf shape and variety is fantastic. Just watch your fingers on the stem haha! Favourites for me so far is the fatsiodes and dumicola
micro climate plays a huge rule on it I bet various types of palms can actually naturalise near the south coast of England on south facing slopes and sheltered corners
Hugely so! Always a difficult one trying to grow palms in the UK if you’re not down there. I’ve planted the main two in raised borders which are south facing so hopefully giving them some chance in my location. Think I’m going to have to properly protect them this winter though!
You're always going to be pushing your luck with these outside over winter, especially if they're in pots and even more so if they're small palms in small pots - something as simple as a cover from a sheet of greenhouse plastic on 4 stakes to stick the pots underneath makes a big difference. For palms in big tubs & raised beds: I don't like ramming stakes through the roots so when repotting or planting out cut some lengths of scaffold pole, put a plastic caps on the ends and bury them with the tops showing. Come winter, uncap the tops, slide wooden stakes in and fix a sheet of greenhouse plastic to the stakes. Yes you'll probably need bricks to stop it blowing away and probably guyropes to stop containers being blown over and yes it's not visually very attractive but it's all part of the fun of keeping them alive.
Definitely! Especially in our climate! Shame there aren’t more really hardy ones we can grow! Good shout on the covering. I think I’m going to leave the trachys to do their thing this winter. For the brahea in the pot I’ll pull it undercover once I get the pergola built. I think I’m going to put the stakes in the ground on the outside of the metal circular planters which shouldn’t disturb the roots and maybe go for the polycarbonate sheeting. Perhaps put some covers around the trunks and take it off on the warmer days to help with the airflow.
Looks great. I note you're living in the Midlands, I imagine some colder winters than coastal locations. I'm up North East coastal and have similar palms. The challenge is a great one getting that exotic look whilst facing the climate we deal with. I'll be following the channel with interest.
Thank you mate! Yes I think we probably get similar types of conditions to the north east coast just probably a bit frostier! I’m from the NE originally and don’t see many tropical style gardens up there! Do you guys struggle or have you managed to find a way to consistently get that theme?
@TropicalGardenUK I thought you were from up here with your accent as I used to live in the Midlands prior to moving North. Losses outdoors as expected robustas. Trachys, trachy hybrids, butias odoratas, eriospatha, jubaea all.done fine with occasional minor winter damage. Braheas armata fine so far, Guadeloupe palms spear pull but survived. All good fun
Hi there mate, im in Hull and had a butia odorata that sailed through the first winter, made me over confident so i didn't bother to protect, got a colder winter and it perished. Spear pulled and the hydrogen peroxide didn't help either. Might give it another go but i have to say these are expensive lessons
Hi mate, shame to hear that! I think I’m just going to protect the ones that aren’t Trachys every year now! What other palms are you growing at the minute?
Hi im also growing trachy's as well as chamaerops humilis and vulcano. They sail through the winter without protection. Also tried a washingtonia robusta but that pershed during a mild winter with protection so won't waste my money on any more of those
@@ellerby83 solid plants aren’t they! Shame about the washy! I’m really keen on getting one at some point but holding fire at the moment too for that reason. Don’t know whether to try one in a pot and pull it under cover for the winter.
@@ellerby83haha cheers haven’t quite bit the bullet and got one yet. Seen a really nice one a bit further east over Lincoln way when I went to pick up the palm and it looked great.
Ive only had it since December, got it off some guy in coventry he only had it since last year too. Its a decent size, barely moving this year though its on its 3rd frond😅
@@adbates24 nice at least it got through this wet winter though! Are they pretty slow growers normally? I haven’t bothered with any phoenix as of yet due to our location and the mixed reports on hardiness
Useful video, thank you. I’m a fellow West Midlander and I’m learning what we can get away with and which palms are best left alone! My butia odorata made it through winter but I covered the crown with an open umbrella and then covered the whole thing with fleece. That seemed to do the trick, although I do have some brown tips coming through now. My chaemerops is coming back from a previous spear pull and I’m giving a trachy/princeps hybrid a go now. Tracy fortuneis and waggies are my faves with them being a lot less fussy! The garden is looking good, keep it up!
Great to hear you managed to get most of yours through! It seems like in the midlands they often come through with brown tips. The trachys seem to be the best option where we are from a hardiness perspective- the princeps give a nice bit of variation over the standard don’t they!?
@@TropicalGardenUK they do indeed! Experimentation with tropical style planting can be an expensive game. I’m sticking to the hardy stuff at the moment. I totally understood you when you said you may not bother with another butia. Warmer weather coming through. Enjoy!
Those raised steel ring planters look suspect to me. On the last video it looked logged. How are they fastened together is it joined all the way round or is there a gap? Like is it welded shut at the join? If there's no gaps i can't see how it would drain any better than the ground. In fact id say it could be worse. Raised sleeper need have gaps where water escapes wereas that it looks like the water can only go down into the ground. Then when its getting really logged it freezes easily as its raised up way more than it needs to be. Id dig into now and see how wet it is because the butyagrus won't stand a chance if its set up the way i think it is
Hi mate, appreciate the info. They have no bottom so being raised up a meter you would assume it would drain better than being ground level? They’re welded all the way round but that could be a good idea on drilling some holes around the side to help the water escape. I’ll have another dig and see how it’s doing. I tested it with the hose pipe after adding more grit and seemed to drain well but will check again.
@TropicalGardenUK if its sealed all the way round it can only go down into the ground and drain as fast as the ground below it id imagine wich would be slow in a wet winter. Then you'd be more exposed to freezing right through as the roots aren't protected under ground. If you drilled holes in near the bottom for excess water to escape it would be better but still if they keep failing in there it must say something. Those brown leaves dont look like frost burn to me but an issue with roots. Try one in a sleeper raised bed just 6inches high. Just enough so thats its not on the wet ground. Roots are still protected underground and the small raised area can drain faster and dry quicker than the ground. Those big raised rings are like huge pots sat embedded in grass where the drainage holes are semi blocked. No good in my opinion. Raised sleepers with gaps. Raised rockery etc is the way to go
@@PalmGeezer really good info mate. I’m a bit dubious on digging them out as don’t want to disturb them too much again 😂 I am going to be changing my other planter at some point but will probably chuck a video out and get some more opinions. I think if they do stay in there this year I’m going to build an overhead shelter to keep the butyagrus and brahea in the rings dry - try and get all the water off them and into the surrounding ground.
Thanks Julian! I managed to get most of them in pots when I bought the palms which was helpful. I normally find most mine on FB marketplace. I think you can get those type of planters on eBay also.
Looking lovely! Doesn't matter if not all plants are tropical as long as you can blend them together, right :) I've seen so many common plants adding to a tropical garden here on youtube, even if it's in the background. There's so many ways to go about it, always interesting to see what choices people make. I myself made sure to have plants starting to bloom from march, so the pollinators can get busy
Thanks for taking the time to comment. Very true! I'm glad I left the lupins in for their early flowers. It's definitely something I'm going to be looking at adding more of for next year. As well as the hardy evergreen backbone so we don't have to wait until the end of July and August before the gardens looking good!
@@TropicalGardenUK Lupins don't look out of place in any tropical garden imo, nice leaf texture and pretty blooms :) I got a lot of inspiration from George and Yorkshire Kris here on youtube, especially George who has some tours of other people's gardens that got me thinking. It's a process for us all!
@@Tminus89 yes me too! I follow those guys also amongst some others. It’s great to get inspiration from other people’s gardens and see what they’re growing. I may get some more lupins for next year too
@@reh6083 it may be worth a look to see if he’s still selling some. He was based around London. I’ve seen a UK website post up some hinibas a couple of days ago - there’s also a guy on marketplace around Leicester selling some but collection only
I have 4 all bought as Rex all are different 1 is definitely standard and suckers a lot. The others are all Rex forms but all a little different love them all.
Yeah it seems like there is so much variation in leaf shapes even within the "forms". All of them look great so any are a good addition to the garden aren't they
We certainly do! It’s like a wind tunnel down the side of the house. That’s partially why I’ve moved the Musa basjoo out of the centre and planted the Maurelli there as the leaves got shredded!
Hi, Thankyou for inspiring us. Youve got a fantastic variety of plants, your garden is looking lovely. Isn't it addictive but so rewarding when you and your family sit and relax and just look at the stunning foliage and flowers. It give you a sense of pride. Are you midlands, we are Staffordshire. 🌴🪴🌱
FWIW Garden Angel is hardy here in north Kent, I took leaf cuttings just in case but they get through winter no problem under a bit of cover from Chamaerops palms.
@@TropicalGardenUK That should work but I just pushed the stalk into a pot of compost, it rooted and a new plant grew. Apparently if you cut the leaf veins and pin the leaf down to the surface of a pot of compost Begonias will grow new plants from the cuts so you should get more than one new plant per leaf, I'm going to try it and see.
