UK Tropical Garden - October tour 2024 (Peak Growth)

Описание: The final tour of my Milton Keynes tropical style garden this year. I have concentrated on the best performing plants, shrubs and trees and also others that have not faired as well. Please do check out my other tours where I go into more detail about each plant.

0:18 Ensette
0:39 Phormium - How hardy are they?
1:15 Indian bean tree - Catalpa bignonioides - Creating a standard tree
2.43 Mahonia - a winter flowering treat
3:10 Canna Lilies - When not to plant
3:50 Ensette - Overwintering
4:19 Dividing Canna Lillies
4:30 Musa Basjoo - exposed location, but a great focal point
5:05 Mangave - Not as hardy as stated
5:23 Crocosmia - How to prolong flowering
5:43 The UK hardy Yucca Rostrata
6:10 Colourful corner
7:08 Evergreen ferns
7:29 Euphorbia - Miners Merlot
8:00 Colocasia Metallica
8:33 Fatsia Polycarpa
8:39 Salvia Amistad taking control
9:10 Drainage moat
9:24 Huchera
9:52 Hidden Fascicularia bicolor
10:09 Hidden Schefflera rhododendrifolia
10:22 Reinventing my tropical raised bed, focal points
11:01 Nasturtiums and a wonderful bee
11:35 Tetrapanex Rex and worries of spreading
11:48 Trachycarpus fortunei and its stubborn new growth
12:16 Schefflera Taiwaniana - surviving, but not thriving
12:35 Aster - A solid flowering plant that comes back every year
12:49 Albizia julibrissin Summer Chocolate Mimosa Tree and its hatred of open locations
13:18 Spreading issues with Variegated grass plants
14:02 Tropical style raised bed MK2
14:11 Geraniums and begonias
14:19 Canna tropicana and its woeful performance
14:38 Tetrapanax Rex - A fantastic performer
14:50 The damage that I caused to my Pseudopanax Crassifolius
15:38 Dasylirion longissimum - Mexican grass tree
15:59 Peony that was stamped on
16:24 Dhalia - subpar performance
16:49 Salvia Hot Lips and its non suitable shady location
17:05 Trachycarpus wagneranus - testing the location
17:27 Monkey Puzzle trees that need to be planted in the ground - I do not have the space!
17:43 Plans for a new raised bed
17:59 Redesigning my garden border line
18:37 Bay laurel coming into flower
18:50 Dog wood
18:58 Cordylines - how hardy are they?
19:44 Ensette pot vs ground
20:02 Sacrificial Monstera
20:33 Conclusion