Great PLANTS for a TROPICAL style garden | Late season garden tour

Tropical gardens are fast becoming very popular amongst gardeners in cooler climates. Combining cold tolerant and half-hardy plants that appear tropical enables us to create the illusion of a tropical paradise in gardens all around the world. Mixing in some true tender tropical plants adds an exotic flair to tropical style gardens for the summer months.

In this video I share a final look around my own UK tropical style garden to share how all the tropical style plants are looking at the end of this years gardening season. This summer has been warm with plenty of rainfall, perfect for these large leaved and fast growing tropical plants. However, a potential frost is now on the horizon and this may be the last chance to enjoy the Grow Paradise tropical garden looking so lush and vibrant.

Heat loving tropical garden plants such as the Elephant Ear (Colocasia), Bananas (Musa) and Papaya tree (Vasconellea) are at their peak after enjoying months of vigorous summer growth. The banana plants have grown to the tallest heights ever seen in our tropical garden. Their enormous tropical leaves create a truly tropical canopy over our garden. Our Papaya tree is even fruiting, adding a delicious extra dimension to our exotic garden.

Half-hardy tropical style plants such as the Bolivian Fuchsia (Fuchsia boliviana), Brassaiopsis mitis (Snowflake Aralia) and Canna lilies are looking lush and healthy but will soon be preparing for dormancy. At this time of year these tropical style plants have reached their maximum size, having charged-up their underground storage organs with energy to survive winter as frosts that will inevitably kill any above ground soft herbaceous material.

Hardy tropical style plants such as our false castor oil plant (Fatsia species), Honey spurge (Euphorbia x pasteurii ‘John Phillips’) and loquat tree (Eriobotrya japonica) will hold the fort as the other plants rest. Tropical looking evergreen plants are essential to maintaining a lush green garden for 12 months of the year in countries that experience cold winters. Evergreen tropical style trees provide height and create warmer microclimates below their evergreen canopies. Evergreen shrubs will provide structural interest with tropical looking leaves and often produce winter flowers rich in nectar for pollinating insects.

Hopefully this video gives you some plant ideas for a tropical garden and garden inspiration.

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