Springy’s (Steve) Windswept exotic/tropical garden in Abingdon on Thames, UK.
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- Just a quick walk around my exotic/tropical garden here in Abingdon. It’s been a tough year for the garden due to the “Beast from the East” and the hot summer. August 27th 2018
(Apologies for the jittery video. I have no idea why it did that.)
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I dont need a space to park BMW or Mercedes, I need a space to build a garden like this....
What are you talking...?? I appreciate you..
This is very impressive. I love how you’ve managed to fill all the various levels with plants but in a way that no one plant overwhelms the others. They all get to fill their space and present themselves at their best. I like the fact that you can see very little bare soil and I love how a lot of the plants set each other off by contrasting in form, colour or texture!
Altogether a big whopping 10 out of 10 for how to create an exotic garden. You’ve pretty much got it down to perfection as far as I’m concerned. I’m sure another video with commentary showing the names of the plants would go down very well I think!
Improve Sheffield Thank you so much for your comments, they are really appreciated! This video was taken after my open day that year so had been primped and pruned thoroughly. Plants never grow how you expect them to. Each year the Dahlias can grow to a different height even though they are left in the ground over winter so it makes planning for planting schemes difficult. Dahlia ‘David Howard’ says that it will grow to about a metre tall but here it can grow to two metres!👍
Before the open day each plant will fight for its space and then I just prune it to fit in around the plants that surround it.
Agreed, and enjoyed the peaceful tour, thank you for not adding corny techno rave music over video!!
Esse jardim é um sonho de qualquer pessoa que gosta de plantas , parabéns pelo vídeo bgd por compartilhar conosco ?
@@Springyfeller I'm a professional landscape designer and horticulturist for 40 years !! Your garden is gorgeous!!!! Wonderful selection of plants...lovely !!!
@@NanNanNABooBoo I also appreciate the sound of the garden without load music. Thanks
I cannot imagine the time it took to create such a gorgeous garden like this! Lifetime inspiration for sure
Beautiful tropical looking garden. I never imagined that a UK garden could look like that.
squange20 Thank you! Me neither!! It’s amazing just how many plants you can grow here in the UK if you do a bit of research. There are still more fantastic plants being discovered that I’m sure will end up being planted here in the future!
I live on the West Coast of Ireland and would like to know is it possible to grow a tropical garden here.
@@jcjc4158 is is at least as mild as the UK so something like this garden yes.
@@Springyfeller don’t you have hard winter here? Amazing place!
WOW, every plant looks so crisp, and clean and vivid. I could hardly believe this was an actual garden. The Blooms are so bright. I could watch your video all day long. Thank you so very much for sharing this lovely piece of beauty with all of us, and Hello from Ontario, Canada
Thank you so much Christine. It doesn’t look so pristine all of the time but I do try and make it look at its best when I do a video.😎
Thank You for the tour. This is such a beautiful place to repose .......... You have such a talent for design.....Your hard work has paid off.
Thank you. I relaxed just by looking at your garden. I can't imagine being there.
One of the most incredible gardens I have ever seen!
51 dislikes......Pure Jealously, amazing garden must have taken a looooong time.....
Sarah Dickens Thank you Sarah. The garden was started from scratch in October 2009. See here:www.hardytropicals.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=135&t=15027
@@Springyfeller WOW thank you for sharing the before and "during" photo's. What a truly gorgeous garden you've created
The garden is gorgeous..the plants are gorgeous...have no clue why anyone would give this thumbs down.. !!
On the bright side, youtube counts dislikes as a positive thing: the more clicks the better. The thumbs up or down is just for the people to have an option to express themselves but youtube doesnt really care about that. At least thats what all my IT specialists say..
With regards to the video, my favourite garden video so far..and i watch quite a few of them each morning. Fantastic garden!
Mefas R
I too, watch a lot. This one is absolutely beautiful!
Wow, what a beautiful garden. Every plant looks super healthy. Thank you for sharing.
That's one of the most impressive tropical gardens I've ever seen. Maybe because it had an English country garden style. No, I'm not mad, the garden showed clusters of same type plants, with winding paths sided by tropical plants smartly well placed.
Who could tell, the most astonishing tropical garden was made by an Englishman!
Totally out of THIS world!!!! LOVE IT!!!!!
I just keep watching your garden!!! I can't get enough!!!! So beautiful!!!! I'm love it!!! You gave me so many inspiration for my tropical garden. Thank you Steve!!!!!
Thank you Bacila for you lovely comments! I’m so happy that my garden has inspired you with creating your own tropical garden. I have no major projects going on in the garden this year so I hope to get more time to concentrate on the planting schemes again. It’s always exciting to see just what plants have survived each winter outside. The more that survive the less of a job it is to fill the gaps!
Do you have Instagram profile, Steve? I could watch your pictures all day :)
Thank you. No Bacila I don’t have an instagram account. I do have a Twitter account though @springy_steve but I have only just started out on it. I don’t think I’d have enough time to do too many things. I hope to add pictures to Twitter more regularly as the year progresses.
I don't have a Twitter account, but I think I will make it one just for your photos! I wanna see every plant in your lovely garden!! 🙂
Thanks Bacila. I hope to add a few more unusual plants this year.
Some of the hardier herbaceous plants are already starting to break through the soil so the garden is slowly waking up now!🌱
This absolutely beautiful. I would like my backyard to look very similar, I like every aspect of f this yard. Thank you for posting: stunningly beautiful!!
Thank you for your kind words Y Liberal. The garden is constantly evolving. I’m happy with how it looks at the moment but who knows what ideas I may come up with in the future. That’s the enjoyable thing about gardening! Your backyard could look the same but it can take time. Have fun!
Beautiful and stanning.
Omg! Absolutely stunning. 💯 was drinking my morning coffee and watching this, it brought me great peace. Thanks for allowing us to see this. Beautiful.
Your garden is pure paradise. Most tropical/exotic gardens tend to be very lush & green foliage with few flowers, but yours is both colourful and lush. Lots of lovely little water features too. It must be a haven for wildlife. Absolute perfection
Jennifer, thank you for your comments! I like to have flowers in the garden as they are very important to bees, butterflies and hover flies etc. I want a garden that encourages all types of wildlife and beneficial insects plus they add their own interest and beauty.
This is just PERFECT!
Subbed! Would LOVE to learn more about your layout!
Thank you! Have a look here at the early days of construction. Unfortunately later posts on this forum got deleted.😭
www.hardytropicals.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=135&t=15027
I love this tropical garden, it's perfect
True paradise!! Amazing work of art! And so much love is in this garden, thank you for sharing!
Now this is the kind of perfectionism I love!
Could you do a tour naming the plants, some of us are a little less educated but would love to know what they're called so we too can have some of the plants like in your beautiful garden.
wonderful place to relax ..
Such a brilliant mind to conceive and bring to fruition this gorgeous garden. I'm in awe of you.
Quite possibly the most beautiful garden I have ever seen! Wow. What a paradise! Thanks for sharing!
This is sooo enchantingly beautiful! I wonder about the mosquitoes though.
What I meant to say was if the video was narrated, my garden in Stevenage might improve in time.🙂
WONDERFUL! Amazing. Rich and so well curated! I may have to give up my shovel. That tour blew my mind. Thank you
Lovely, beautiful wish I could walk in your garden.
Oh my goodness, this is by far the most stunning garden I’ve ever seen! I absolutely love it! I’m trying to create a tropical area in my garden but being in Scotland plants flourish less in my climate. It’d be great to get some ideas of what would do well. I have fatsia, phormium, acers, huechera, lilies, cordyline all ready to go in. What else might I try? 😊
Caroline Middleditch Thank you so much Caroline. What part of Scotland and what is your soil like? Clay? Sandy? Etc. If you are prepared to do a little bit of work protecting things it will go a long way to what you can grow.
Springyfeller hello! I’m south West Scotland. I’m on the coast but up high. I think our soil is pretty neutral but it’s quite compacted. Sorry I missed your message earlier. 😎
Hi Steve, thanks for your reply. Normally no one answers my comments, but you did. Thanks mate.
Can you tell me the name of the shrub, just passed and next to your straw roofed hut. It has long leaves of about 4 to 5 inches long with jagged edges. At first I thought the leaves were part of a trex leaf. But they were all individual leaves. There are loads of plants in you garden that I have not seen before, but that one screamed out “buy me”. I’m really looking forward to the next video you make just to know the names of some of your plants. Thank you Steve.
No problem eddy. I always try to reply when I can. I could chat about my garden for hours. I normally only get to do that on my open day once a year!
The plant that I think you mean is Schefflera delavayi. Those leaves are more like 6-8 inches or more in length. It’s one of my favourite plants in the garden. It also shouted ‘buy me” when I saw it........ three times in fact!!😁
The level of detail in this is incredible. Each plant contrasts in form and colour with its neighbour. Beautiful
How lovely! I feel as though I went on a vacation in your garden retreat. So very relaxing and soothing to the soul. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for watching it and taking the time to comment Diana.
Fantastic garden, full of intrigue as you wander through the various paths. What happens to the Banana plants in winter though, do you have to bring them inside to protect against frost and the cold damp weather?
Yes, I'd also like to know how you cope with low temperatures!
And I would also like to know how all these tropical plants survive the harsh winters in UK.
Боже !!!какая прелесть !!!
Thank you Steve, got info. Hope weather is kind can't wait to see your amazing exotic garden 😎
How incredibly beautiful and entrancing!
Perfection!
The best exotic garden I've seen by far, and Ive seen many! Looks lush and healthy and beautiful. What is the secret??
Thank you Carole for your kind comments! Lots of different things going on in the garden that when put all together, make the garden what it is. Right plant, right place - layering of plants - lots of things really. Adam Frost did a descriptive walk through of the garden on Gardeners World in September 2017, describing the planting as resembling and English woodland but with tropical style plants.
Hi, yes I first saw your garden on Gardeners World, and was blown away. I couldn't believe that you could make a garden look so big just by the way you arrange the planting beds. It inspires me to attempt to create my own exotic garden since we moved house recently. My collection of hardy exotics are currently waiting patiently in the greenhouse until I decide on the design. I can't wait....@@Springyfeller
@@Springyfeller Do you have a link to the Gardener's World segment? And are you going to post any more videos?
Hi Jennifer, I do now.
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I just found your channel and your garden is gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous! You should put some short videos on once a week or every couple weeks of what's going on in different corners of your garden or what you're doing. I know it takes time and thought to think about it but it would be nice to hear your voice explain why you did the design you did in specific little places. It would be interesting to hear how you built your little stream there's a lot of knowledge in your head that could be shared with all of us out here in the plant world
hello how many square meters do you approximatively have?
Seems pretty small but well filled, 100 perhaps?
What an amazing garden!! You can tell it's had so much love put into it. My kind of Paradise...thank you for the inspiration! Love and light 💜🌠
Such a beautiful garden. That's pure passion. Love it.
I'd like to see a video of this at night or late evening. I see all the little lights along the paths, I imagine it must be mysterious and exotic walking through in darkness.
Cris Bessette Thanks for your comment Cris, I’ll see what I can do!👍
Cris Bessette me too...it's got to be stunning at night as well!
For the love of god someone lay out the plants and their lowest growth zone!
Bless!!!
Mind blowing. It's giving me immense happiness. Thanks for sharing.
Absolutely beautiful garden, congratulations. I can image all the hours of work and money you have put to get such amount of plants. It is breathless and inspiring. Thank you for sharing!
CancunTransfers.com You are very welcome and thank you for your lovely comments! It’s been a very rewarding project to turn the garden into what it is today.
really inspiring, thanks so much for showing us your garden Steve!
Thank you Sarah for taking the time to watch and comment.
What a beautiful and peaceful paradise you have there, it’s gorgeous! Knowing me I’ll be building an outside cabana and be sleeping in there ... I am smiling 😊
What a beautiful garden well done to you. You have inspired me to keep planting more stuff x
Checks all the boxes of an outstanding garden design, along with cozy and surprising. Very well done.
How could anyone dislike this garden? Fantastic, well planned, intriguing and inviting through the jungle canopy.
Thanks for sharing your little sanctuary with us, terrific job! 👍
Best tropical garden ive seen
one of the prettiest gardens of this country
I have watched this a number of times and it one of the best British Tropical gardens.
...that's perfection...what a beautiful garden you've worked so hard to enjoy.
There is no thumbs-up big enough that could express how much I like your garden. Or words.
Simply amazing. So authentic and best design and detail you will ever see. Thanks for sharing, has inspired me so much.
Thank you for your kind words 🙏 Every bit of bare soil is an opportunity to put in a plant! 🤗
Wow, blooming art, mate, absolutely spectacular!
Oh man!! Absolutely stunning. What an amazing place to be. Well done
Waaaaooow!!!!!!😍😍😍😘😘😘
I am head over heals in love with this AMAZINGLY GORGEOUS GARDEN.
Hats off to the owner who created such a marvel 😍👌👌👌💗💙💚💛💜💓💕
Beautiful garden! I really like how water and sound of water are incorporated in the garden, which creates the rainforest feel.
Your garden is stunning. I can see that your plants are healthy and well cared for. What a great treasure you have.
Thank you 🙏
Paradise indeed... So much inspiration. I'll be watching this over and over again... 😉
Absolutely stunning garden! And proof that you don't need a lot of space to create something really special!
superb; if this garden doesn't win an award or something than I don't know what would. finest northern 'tropical' garden I've ever seen.
Thanks again Steve for answering my questions about your plants. Seeing them in the right settings highlights their qualities. They make the garden more tropical and at the same time enhancing the larger architectural plants. There is one more plant I need to know of if I’m going to aquire one for my ‘patch’ and that’s the one at the bottom of the frame 0:25. It looks like a mini trex. You also have it a bit further up the garden. Thanks Steve in advance for sharing your knowlege with us.
amazing garden ...very relaxing especially the sounds of water flowing' thanks for sharing sir :)
Absolutely stunning garden, well done I love it!
I just wanted you to know that this is absolutely now my inspiration for my new gardening space!
Thank you so much for your comment Erin!
Extraordinarily beautiful you have inspired me to get out in my garden his new ideas thank you so much for sharing your beautiful garden with me
robroy4137 You are very welcome and thank you for your kind words!🙏
Amazing, thankyou for sharing such paradise.
wow... i'm lost in your garden.. :) Amazing collection and how you manage to put them altogether without it being a mess, that's amazing.
Omg is like a secret garden, love it!!! Thank youuuuu
Gorgeous... and amazing how you've gotten so many tropical and subtropicals to grow in your area! I'm living in Mexico now and trying to get close to this in my arid tho temperate climate (75d avg) and so wish I had one of those wonderful UK nurseries near me... sigh.
An absolutely amazing garden! I'm slowly trying to create something similar myself but there's no way it'll ever be this good! Completely gorgeous! 🌴
Absolutely Beautiful! Lots of detail and hard work!
What an amazing place ! Like a fairytale. Gave a lot of inspiration for my garden.
Fantastic stuff your garden has been a huge inspiration for me since i first saw it on HTUK so glad you did a video this year was great on gardeners world last year but too short! would love to see more through the seasons mate like overwintering and that. superb.
Thank you! It’s a shame that 4 years of my blog on HTUK has been lost.
I will certainly try and do videos each season as a lot of people think that there is no interest in the winter months. Yes there is less foliage but it’s a great time to see the architectural palms!
Wow..can you share the kinds of plants in your garden.so beautiful.
Very beautiful! I wish mine was that full! Here in east Texas, too much foliage can mean too many mosquitoes. Love the look and all the water features! You did an excellent job!
I loved to tour your exotic tropical garden. I can`t tell what I liked but I kept on watching and watching til the end
Rk Thanks for watching and commenting!
I do tropical gardening but that is amazing ! Hats off to you because I no how much hard work that must have taken to look like that ! Incredible ! Even will Giles would be proud to have a garden like that and he was the godfather of tropical gardening !
avenging angel Thank you so much! Yes he was the godfather of tropical gardening and he certainly inspired me! I did meet him once but unfortunately I never got to visit his garden!☹️
Magnificent! I love everything about your garden!
PLANT PORN Thank you so much for your kind comments!
Heavenly garden beautiful plants loved the sound of the water so so lovely x
Beautiful back yard🥰.. who ever that did your backyard did an amazing job!!
Exotic collection of plants, lush vegetation of greens & practical accentuation of water features make this garden a great place to visit. Thanks.
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, this garden forever!
wooooowwww....its very beautiful garden.....not enough words to describe....its simply awesome
Thank you Pushpa for your kind words!
Best garden I’ve ever seen just wonderful well done 👍🏼
You managed to create a stunning garden architecture. Beautiful garden, amazing!
Thank you Elena. It has taken time and a lot of work but it’s coming together nicely now. I’m really looking forward to doing this years planting.
So much love and patience is invested in your garden. And Your garden loves you! Last year, the garden went under the snow. How are Your exotic ones?
As a fellow tropical plant enthusiast im very impressed and if im honest rather envious. My garden is tiny by comparison to yours just 35ft x 18ft with another small area near my gate. On saying that im in the process of making my front garden a tropical treat. Im a bit of a palm nut, collecting upwards of 50 assorted palms . A fair few of them are trachycarpus spices. Your garden is so inspirational. A true benchmark for others including myself to emulate.
Really amazing garden!!! Great jungle feeling!
Thank you for your reply,my palms and T rex are only a couple of feet high so I am a beginner wrapping everything overwinter nearly lost my banana plant,hoping to create a canopy it could take years,but your garden gives me hope and inspiration .
Well it’s a start Carole. You’ll be surprised just how quick they grow once they get their roots established. I’m not sure if you have seen this or not but it’s a link to my old blog on a website I used to use a lot when I started out. It shows the garden in its early days. Most of the plants were annuals then until they were replaced with something more permanent. Here is the link👍 www.hardytropicals.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=135&t=15027
Very impressive. A plant lovers heaven. I like the placement and repetition of the dahlias. It gives a sense of cohesion amongst the great variety of species. Also it can be difficult in designing to make dahlias combine well structurally with other plants. You seem to have mastered that art! ~ I hope your winter is somewhat milder this year.
Thank you for your comments and observations! As you say, you need some repetition with the planting, wether it is with the flowers or foliage. I try to do it with both. The Dahlia ‘Honka surprise’ is planted throughout the garden and is VERY popular with visitors on our open days. I always seek out unusual plants. It keeps me excited about my hobby and visitors are amazed at just what I can grow here! 🌴
Wow such a beautiful garden with flowing water.so serene and relaxing
Most beautiful exotic garden i have ever seen
Absolutely beautiful. So tranquil and inviting!
Thank you Alesia
A truly extraordinary and magnificent garden!
What a beautiful garden. Very well designed.
You garden is an absolute masterpiece! Well done!
leigh sutcliffe Thank you Leigh!🙏
Wow! this is an Absolutely beautiful garden. 💚💯
Stumbled across this. It’s amazing. Love your choice of flowers, as they all look tropical and exotic but are in fact well known garden plants given a whole new lease of life.
Thank you Steve! Yes a lot of the flowers are various Dahlias. These have been planted in the garden for 10 years as they were used to fill the garden easily and cheaply. Visitors to the garden love them so I keep them in. I love them too of course as they show where the garden originally started.
Springyfeller That’s great, even better when things develop organically like that.
Fantastic choice of plants and knowing what to put next to what.
Thank you Susie. I’m a bit of a plantaholic so have many plants in the garden. I do have a back bone of permanent planting and then each year I add the tender plants that are overwintered in the outhouse and also any new acquisitions.