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My Tropical Garden UK..
United Kingdom
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Tropical plants, and planting tips for UK gardens... With a wide variety of Tropical plants that can be grown here in the Uk.. this is my garden, and the highs and lows.. what works and those plants that need a little more care.
This for me.. is a video diary for myself, but happy to share it with others...
This for me.. is a video diary for myself, but happy to share it with others...
Dicksonia Antarctica update
Quick look at my Dicksonia Antarctica tree fern, and the progress it has made in my greenhouse.
Look forward to getting it out, and planted in my Tropical style garden this spring
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Look forward to getting it out, and planted in my Tropical style garden this spring
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#TropicalPlants #tropicalgarden # GrowingTropicalPlants
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New Tropical Plants ready for spring UK
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In this video I show a few plants that I have bought ready for spring time, a quick update on some others, and a look insdie the shed, which I store some in over winter. And a interesting fact about the Tetrapanax Papyrifer, some of us grow in our UK gardens.
My Tropical Garden UK Dicksonia Antartica progress
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A quick look at my Dicksonia Antartica, that I got as a suprise Christmas present just a few weeks ago... #TropicalGardening #GrowingPlants #TropicalPlants
My UK Tropical Garden after -3 to -4 Degrees Celsius
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My Tropical Garden After the first real cold night in West Sussex. Temperatures reached down to -3 / -4 Degrees Celsius.
My Tropical Garden winter walk Around
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Quick look at my garden as we end the year, and some new plants that I have purchased ready for next year.
Tropical Overwintering Greenhouse Project Part 2
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So finally the greenhouse is complete, and this is a quick look inside.. along with my thoughts... If you want any links to the products I used, just drop me a message in the comments below...
October Tropical Style Garden Tour ( West Sussex UK )
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Quick look at my Tropical style garden in October, as we head towards the colder months.
Tropical Overwintering Greenhouse Project Part 1
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Stage one of my Overwintering Greenhouse project... Getting ready for the UK winter, and my thoughts on flatpack wooden greenhouses My phone camera was having a melt down, and my speech Impediment kicked in for this video..
Yucca Plants for Uk Tropical Style Gardens
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A quick video to show you the types of Yucca plants I grow in my UK Tropical style garden, and some of the progress after 14 months...
Agave Americana.. I rescued from certain death
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So driving home for work, just under a week ago.. I see a pile of garden rubbish dumped on the side of the road, and with it a very large but mostly dead Agave Americana. So I jumped out and cut off, the still alive offsets and planted them
Fast growing Tropical Plant ideas
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A quick video, showing four plants I grow in my garden for height, that come back every year, for that Tropical look
My first full year of growing Tropical plants
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My first TH-cam video of my garden, one year on growing Tropical plants in the UK
That pond is gorgeous!
Thanks...not the biggest, but I like it 🙂
It’s super to see garden almost from scratch. Mine is a blank slate too asI have decided to go the route of many gardeners & go tropical! I’ve got a few palms & grasses the rest of the collection is only coming in May. However they’re smallish plants that can be tucked in any where. You sound as excited as I do! Happy gardening!
Thanks for watching.... Small plants are sometimes the best way to go, as they get there roots down quicker, and from experience grow faster than larger more mature plants... spring will soon be here, and May sounds like it's going to be a busy time in your garden👍
Happy to have found another channel with a like minded gardener. Liked and subscribed!
Thanks for watching and the subscription... if you have any questions about my garden, please ask...always happy to help ...
The dog barking set my dax off too. She is trotting around the house barking room to room. 🤣
Our dogs always want to get involved, everytime I go out to do a video,,, hopefully your dax settled down eventually 😂
Привет чувак у вас прекрасное растение ❤ ..приятно дякую..
Thanks for watching ...
Your garden is so beautiful, I love it, thank you
Thanks... Hopefully this spring I will get everything planted, and finish the rest of the work I need to do 👍
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Thanks for watching, and the sub to the channel 😊
What a lovely plants 🪴 Like 24 My friend thank you for good sharing Have a great day
Thanks for watching... hope you have a great day yourself 👍
Very nice.😊😊😊
Thanks.... the garden is getting there now
Love a good plant haul,nice choice of plants too,also do like a sausage dog 😁
Thanks for watching... just got to find a place for them in the garden... yeah sausage dogs are nice, just a little bundle of hectic...
And so it begins. LOL. So addicting. Love the bike!!!
Once you get started, it really does become an addiction lol .... the bike is great :)
Great tour - nice collection of plants. Would love to have a tree fern that large. Very difficult to find any for sale in Canada.
Thanks... tree ferns are easy to get hold of in the UK ... but they go by size, and it is about £60.00 per ft
I've got loads to plant out like you. Also my back garden is in pretty much shade until spring so will be interesting to see what thrives out there compared to others. Nice Triumph BTW, never too cold to ride...well I keep saying that on the daily commute 😂
On sunny winter days, about 70% of my garden gets sun... then around spring time 90% sun all day, with only 10% shade..... the Triumph is great, but as I get older I hate the cold, but not at the fair weather biker stage yet... what bike do you have ?
@markchitty6505 I've got 3 at the moment with the Grom and 1200 Super Tenere being used for commuting and the Aprilia RSV used when been out on track days
Very nice !!
nice haul mate! some awesome stuff there, the peiris is quite a cool spring plant if its the one i think it is, the new leaves should come out red and yellow (mines making a come back lol ). love that farfugium as well! might have to add some of these to my list!
@richf_tropical_garden_projects Hey Richard... Just a few more to stick in the ground lol .... some I got just for the way they look, probably not tropical plants.. and the Farfugium is pretty awesome, as well as a few others...let me know what you get
@markchitty6505 they should fill in nicely, yeah to be fair i think thats whats its all about, general look! i think a good mix works well tbh! your tree fern seems really happy in there but could be a squeeze getting out, id say out it out, but the new fronds will be done with just one frost, i tried to protect one new frond with fleece and it still rotted off after just one frost even protected.
@@richf_tropical_garden_projects I agree that general look of a garden, is more important than sticking to one type of plants. The tree fern is going to stay put in the greenhouse... and yes it deffo likes it in there 😀
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Yep for sure....
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Many thanks 👍
That’s so cool
Yeah ... can't wait to see how many more fronds I get....
always cool to see them flush and at least you know for sure its certainly alive! just be super protective of the new fronds, anything down to 0 id be careful of and maybe bring indoors for any cold snaps, i lost 2 new fronds that came out early and got hit by a light frost
Mine is a heated greenhouse, and going out into the ground in spring... deffo alive 😀
@markchitty6505 ah good save! nice toasty till spring
Mine has started to push out a couple of fronds with a few more buried away.
If I get 6 fronds this year, I will be happy after all the damaged ones it came with...
@markchitty6505 I did find 3 maybe 4 damaged knuckles when feeling deep into the crown, not sure this could have been caused by courier or long trip from down under? Still have some fresh sprouting growth and that's the main thing. Will you be planting out or in a pot in the spring?
@@essexhognose1808 If it was deep down in the crown then probably not the courier... mine was actuall fronds that was damaged... mine is going out in the ground and staying out...
Looks stunning with the frost, they trachys will be fine bulletproof in a cold snap 👌👌
Like you said... the trachys, as well as the other palms I dont really worry about... they do look stunning for sure 👍
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Yep chilly 👍
That’s a great start in only a year, grays. Love that pond
Thanks... got plans for the back of the garden, just got to wait till spring this year 😊
Palms looking frosty! Great content...Just subscribed! - Cascadia Palms 🌴
Many thanks... I am new to this TH-cam channel stuff 🙂
@ me too! We will learn together!
Looking great
Many thanks... no doubt we are in for a few more colder days and nights 👍
That frosted up waggie looks excellent! I'm glad to see you taking care of those cordylines! Nice ice crysticals 😂
Thanks... always protect the growing points on the Cordylines.... yeah crysticals are like crystals 🤣
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Fantastic tour.. loving the xmas present I am sure it will recover fine. Is that a cryptomarie in the greenhouse? I had one about that size and it breezed through 2022/2023 winter outside with no damage, so I feel it should be pretty hardy. My neighbour has it now and it is double the size. They get proper big!
Thanks buddy... hopefully the Dicksonia will be fine... yeah its a Cryptomeria japonica 'Sekkan-sugi' which I will plant out in the spring
@@markchitty6505 Fantastic make sure it has a fair amount of room. Wish I had kept mine now, but I owed the neighbour a favour and gave them a choice of plant. They chose that one lol
@@GrowTropicalMK Nip out and get another lol
@markchitty6505 lol it probably will happen !
The canes by the rubbish looks like Arundo Donax.
Yeah thats right ... Arundo Donax... and the rubbish is just that 😂
love the evergreens ! my 4ft da came the same as yours with quite a few broken fronds but has done well since
The garden is pretty much all evergreens, and I hope my Dicksonia recovers same as yours did
@@markchitty6505 that looked really similar to mine , my guess is it will be perfectly fine!
@@markchitty6505 try and protect the new fronds that remain as much as possible, i lost 2 rollers that werent broken due to frost but it reflushed about 9 fronds in the spring, hopefully a full flush this spring
Where did you get the tree fern from, looks a nice size trunk
The Tree Fern came from Gardners Dream...
@markchitty6505 thanks very much! Ordered a 2 footer and even found a 15% discount code on the net to use as well.
@@essexhognose1808 That is the cheapest place I have found to buy them from... shame mine was damaged a little... but it will bounch back for sure... glad that helped 👍
@markchitty6505 sure did, was looking at some double trunking ones that looked cool, again 2 feet so not massive but with an added £80+ for courier?! So quite glad when you pointed me their way
It arrived safe and sound today, never realised how heavy these things were 😆 No fronds but plenty of new knuckles ready to go and unwind. Thanks for the heads up, might have to splash out on another!
Look amazing, very nicely insulated and sheltered. Loving the setup
Thanks... will be interesting to see how the plants do over this winter....
Great tour you have some nice variety. It looks pretty sheltered in your garden.
Thanks... pretty new to this whole gardening thing myself, I would say my garden is like a collection of plants at the moment... being just over 1 mile from the sea it can get pretty windy in the garden at times
Let me know how the agave filifera gets on, I have a small one in a pot that im going to keep dry in the plastic greenhouse and maybe plant it out next year.
I dont have an Agave Filifera at the moment in the garden, although the Yucca Filifera that I do have... looks very simular
@@markchitty6505 Sorry I meant Yucca filifera yes haha my mistake !
@@Knapper94 Will keep you posted 👍
From experience, I would foam rather than silicone the gaps. If you feel like running to the expense. I would put some insulation on the inside of the wooden walls, and some foam insulation or polystyrene sheets and put that on the floor and stand your plants on that. The easiest insulation is probably the foil roll you can cut to size and staple to the wood. If you cut it long enough it can overlap on to the floor to cover the gaps at the bottom. That will help keep the heat in.
Hi Andrew... Was going to use polystyrene sheets on the inside wooden walls... and you are right... expanding foam will be better for gaps... I just need to silicone some of the windows... Was also thinking about standing the plants on something inside the greenhouse.. Thanks for your ideas 💡 👍
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Thanks for watching 😁
looks great, bloody hate flat pack 😂🤦♂️ it becomes an expensive hobby quickly 😂🤦♂️🤦♂️
Was a nightmare to put together for sure.... pretty much finished it on Sunday, just got to fit the heater and thermostat... and then try and treat the wood outside. After last nights strong winds and heavy rain, we did have a leak in the roof, but not suprised with the quality of it... will have to seal the roof for sure..
@@markchitty6505 ah yeah not the best week to put it up with all the rain, but needs must haha! sounds like its pretty much there now, should be a good space for all the tender tropicals as well !
These flat packs are never easy, I am sure the air was blue,but it will do the job 😊
The air was very blue 🤣... But yeah hopefully it will do the job, only time will tell 👍
You could try some caulk saver, basically round foam rope like lengths that can be squeezed into the spaces. I've used it on the old wooden floor gaps before carpet to stop drafts
Never seen caulk saver, where would you get that from ?
I'm Mark's partner and I can vouch it and Mark was a nightmare putting it together. I was going to make him move out into it 😂😮
Might be very nice out there. once the heating is on 🤣🤣🤣
Tropical Greenhouse project Part 1 ... Please like and subscribe
Like the look of that Filifera
I know some people have trouble getting them through winter, if left in the ground... but that depends on your location in the UK, along with the soil it is planted in...
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Purple stem banana ?
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@@DimasFajar-ns4vb I will have to look out for that...not sure if it is available in the UK but thanks for the info 👍
Its got to start from somewhere, nice start and bones to grow on
Yep for sure... many thanks for watching
@@markchitty6505 how do plan to over winter the Sikkimensis in the pot?
@@essexhognose1808 I will move it into my heated greenhouse, or the shed depending on space. Both are fine for winter... I just cut all the leafs off, leaving the top roller
Excellent vid, feel inpired to invest in some Yucca for year long interest now 😊
If you plant them in good free draining soil, they do well... both in the ground and pots... and like you said they give year long interest, the types I grow in my garden are the hardy variety, as ther are others that are not so much... but glad that may of helped you ...
that's awesome love a freebee 😎😎 haha ive had a few over the years, i do landscape gardening and get alot free from customers who want garden clear outs haha, awesome though be interested to see how they grow 😎👊🌴
I could not just drive past lol ..... hopefully they will all be ok, I will keep you updated....
great video, i love these plants, great evergreen structure and the bluey green hue on them is wicked, ive got loadsss in my garden, very cool super hardy plant!
I agree... and the amount of different types you can grow in the UK, really has suprised me to be honest
Awesome thanks for sharing! My cannas are super small compared to yours :-( This year I will leave them in the ground.
great video, quick growing stuff is great, i still cant believe the growth on some plants haha!
Being a non gardener up until last summer, seeing what plants can do.... really has suprised me for sure
Welcome to the club . You are not the only one to Mispronounce plant names
Glad to hear it lol ... I also have a slight Speech Impediment still, which really does not help matters at all😂
Good morning 🎉
Good morning,,, thanks for watching
I’m at the same stage as you, but doing something of a transition from traditional English cottage plants to tropical. 171 plants ??? I thought I was hooked, coming home with a plant every time I go out ! Yesterday it was Colocasias from B&am. Have you had any edible figs ?
when you first start, you do get hooked, and same as you I was buying multiple plants every weekend.... almost like you are collecting them lol.... Sadly our B&M has no plants, but seems a great place to pick up Tropicals.... No edible figs yet... but hoping next year, as the tree has put on lots of new growth this year