Love the tropical garden passion. I started mine around 1993 but never did much. Bamboos have taken over and been removed, trees got to tall and been cut down. Gunnera got to big and had to go. I'm left now with a couple of towering Trackies and a few Tree ferns. This year going on I want to get it all going again. More as border plants. Looking forward to going through the videos for inspiration.
Thank you very much and it's great to hear a bit about your story - I'm pleased I try to emphasise how big a lot of these plants get in my vids! If you're going to retain any plants though, some tall Trachys and tree ferns would definitely be my choices too where space and maintenance requirements are limited. I imagine with some choice border plants you can really bring some colour and wow factor to your existing specimens and I hope there's some interesting ideas across my vids and the garden tour videos I filmed last year especially. Thanks for watching and happy to help where I can. All the best with it!
Love the nasturtium's, they keep the caterpillars and blackfly away from your more expensive plants too. I've said it before but Polemonium's have done for me this year what nasturtium's have done for you. Will definitely be mixing mine up with nasturtium's as fillers as well next year. Also mind your own business too 😊
Fantastic! Yes I mentioned about the bugs in a previous vid but should have mentioned it again, they’re a great sacrificial plant! It’s great that you’re already planning head and thinking what you want to do next year 😃
Another fantastic video! Hopefully your Ensete grow well next year, they are such useful plants for big jungly foliage. The shots of your garden are 👌 mate.
Thanks Craig, maybe it’s too shady for them in a lot of the garden whereas the basjoo cope better with it. Cheers, I filmed a load of clips for a big video coming up so thought I’d use some of the extras in here too! 😃
Great video George, agree about the nasturtiums, they've been a godsend for my beginner tropical garden and love the colours especially empress. However, I must give a shout out to nicotiana- even cheaper than the nasturtiums and I have 5 ft tall plants with at 2ft wide leaves! Thanks again for all the helpful advice, videos and posts. Thanks to you, it's been an incredible year even with the crappy weather 😃
Thanks you very much and apologies, I've just noticed this comment. Nicotiana are indeed even cheaper - I actually sowed a batch of sylvestris but I think it was a bad batch of seeds (or I did something wrong!). They definitely have huge leaves and you get a lot of plant for your money, thanks for your suggestion! That's all very kind of you to say, thank you very much for watching and leaving a message, it is appreciated!
Another great video from Georges jungle garden, informative and helpful. Yes absolutely the Japanese banana 🍌 Musa Basjoo, is terrific value and certainly gives that tropical look to your garden...... this year I tried growing some sunflowers, very cheap from seed fast-growing look good in the background, behind the palm trees. 🌴 🌻 🌴 🌻 🌴........Must say, The buzzing insects and singing birds, appear to be, trying to interrupt George’s concentration in this video. 👍.
Thanks Paul! Great that you agree and have had success with sunflowers too. Yes, the birds and insects definitely feature in this one but it's as much their garden as mine!
I let the Nasturtiums self seed too. I've tried few different varieties in our new garden too this year. They have made a good impact on a garden in progress!
Thank you Brenda, I appreciate it! Some are a bit experimental this year but you’ve got to roll the dice sometimes and you might just find some that really work 😃
Glad you mentioned the nasturtiums. I grew mine from seed this year . I had fantastic results from them and they had a beautiful tropical vibe. I put them in with the cannas and everywhere I had a space for them. I've collected the seed pods for next year so hopefully good results again. Might let them climb up the cordyline trunk even. Cheers 👍
I'm also a nasturtium fan and will certainly try them next year, but for the past couple of years I used another common staple as part of my tropical style underplanting.... the humble busy lizzie. I find it grows anywhere, even in fairly deep shade and provides a continuous pop pf colour.
Nice one, that’s another great call too! Petunias are great bedding as well if you go for the bright colours but for me it’s the rambling nature and big leaves of nasturtiums that just give it the edge 😃
Love the foliage combination of ferns against Nasturtiums. Another great temporary tall filler is sweetcorn. Incredibly cheap to buy as plugs as well. I'll have to look out for some dark leaved varieties too. Sadly I think Arundo donax would too over powering for my tiny garden.
It does work well for sure. I’ve got some sweet corn further down the garden but suspect the soil there might be too dry for it unfortunately as it didn’t get very tall this year. That was bought as plugs too. Arundo Donax can get to be a bit of a monster, sweet corn definitely looks neater.
Your videos are class George. I love the "Ticket to the Show" intro to the segment. This year has been my best 🍌🍌 year by some distance. I've had very little leaf shreddage and they've all grown amazing despite the cooler summer . I've thrown so much more feed this year and water at them that I've ever done before. Its made a massive difference. Keep up the great work George. Might I make one suggestion? I'd love to see a palm special video on those 2 stunning palms you have that I could look at all day, the vulcano and the jubutia. They would be at home at Kew Gardens. Cheers mate
Thanks as always for your kind words! My bananas haven't done very well this year, I underestimated the shade a lot of them are growing in I think, but yours have done so well! Your garden has completely filled out this year, the feeding and watering has definitely helped. I was hoping to have already done a video on those two palms and planted them in July but being ill definitely put me off moving them around (and I wanted to get the garden half tidy for last month). They're currently sat in their pots but I'll either do a vid if I decide to plant them out in the next month or at some point soon, thanks for the suggestion! Happy gardening!
Great video as always and great choices. I took your advice in an earlier video to plant nasturtiums and wasn't really sure what to expect having never planted or seen them before (total newbie to gardening this year). I bought 2 mixed packets of seeds from B&Q (other stores available 🤣) and planted the seeds straight in as per instructions. Some were 'tall' some were labelled 'Tom Thumb'' etc. Well, they have gone bananas and look so tropical. The larger ones are unreal how big the leaves are and their continued growth rate, almost too much! Will definitely be planting some again next year.
Thanks and that’s amazing to hear, they’re the perfect little gap filler and if they get too long, just snip them back a bit. I’m pleased they’ve grown so well for you!
JUST BUY BOTH THESE 2 AND PLANT It's only a few years since I first was aware of Salvia 'Amistad' I saw it promoted over and again amongst the glossy pages of Sarah Raven's Spring/Summer catalogue. It looked to me quite nice but not that special. I didn't buy that first time but I bought one from her next Summer catalogue; and by mid November this amazing purple flowering Salvia still thought it was high summer. Flowering still like mad after putting up abundant quantities of large flower spike after large flower spike all summer and all autumn the first year it was planted. Tried and tested in her own exposed windy heavy wet soil garden (then expected to last for weeks in water as a cut flower)at Perch Hill East Sussex. All this before considered being placed upon a glossy page or given a mention in a video. All the plants I've bought out of her catalogue have been good doers. But nothing prepared me for S. 'Amistad' no wonder she promoted it so much. No video nor glossy magazine can do it justice. And such a handsomely beautiful exotic plant it is. A magnet for butterflies and bumbles. Now she features alongside a very similar Salvia to S. 'Amistad' it's flowers are blue and black and it's amazingly wonderful and easy just like S. 'Amistad' is. Always in flower really worth £4-95. Salvia guarantica 'Black and Blue'
I completely agree Colin, they're great plants and keep on going for so long. In an area of gardening where so many other plants take a lot more care for a shorter display that definitely makes them special! I might add some more Salvias in next year...
Hi George Great video again . After watching your video late January this year which started off my addiction to tropical plants . With your advice . I bought from Turn it Tropical. Musa & Ensete both from 9cm pots both under a tenner . Musa is 5 feet with leafs 2 feet amazing structures . I have 3 pups growing from the route ball . I bought other musa so have 5 in the garden they all have pups from the ground . Advice on over wintering them . Will you be doing a video on how you over winter yours ? Cheers Wayne 👍
They could definitely be a close second place - you get loads of plant for the money! I think with nasturtiums it’s how adaptable, carefree and easy they are to work in with the other tropical planting. Sunflowers are great too but I guess more familiar and for me personally it’s the smaller filler plants that I find I have a need for 😃
Yes, this September starts amazing! Great review! We could hear the bees on the Salvia "Amistad". Will you try some red Salvia sp some day, like Salvia grahamii? Thank you!
Thank you very much and yes, the bees love it for sure! Thanks for the suggestion, I may very well try some more brightly coloured Salvias next year, they're lovely plants!
Hi George have grown 3 musa basjoo in pots and they have done so well .thinking of over wintering in my spare room as only area available .do I just bring them in just before frosts and keep them slightly watered 👍thanks for any advice .great job with the garden
@@GeorgesJungleGarden good morning, my friend has a poly tunnel we could use, only we live Wales which gets a bit chilly in the winter. The light in the spare room is good. 🙏🏼
@@gaynorkinnaird800 I’d maybe try one in the polytunnel then and a couple as houseplants. Inside is probably a safer bet but I’d keep the plants on the drier side, you don’t want them to get too leggy and really be pushing out the growth whilst inside.
Thanks George, have to agree with you on banana plants. I've in filled this summer and have made a note of your recomended budget plants. Can I ask what to do with my banana pups which are 3ft high. Thank you.
@@annasutton8078 Completely up to you if you want to leave them to form a bigger clump or dig them up then. Personally I think they look great as a group but I suppose it depends entirely on the space you have.
That's a good question and one I don't know the answer to, I had a quick google and it looks like there might be some naming connections but I'm not sure if they're actually related! Do you grow any Salvias yourself?
Thanks again George. More top tips
Thanks Douglas!
Love the tropical garden passion. I started mine around 1993 but never did much. Bamboos have taken over and been removed, trees got to tall and been cut down. Gunnera got to big and had to go. I'm left now with a couple of towering Trackies and a few Tree ferns. This year going on I want to get it all going again. More as border plants. Looking forward to going through the videos for inspiration.
Thank you very much and it's great to hear a bit about your story - I'm pleased I try to emphasise how big a lot of these plants get in my vids! If you're going to retain any plants though, some tall Trachys and tree ferns would definitely be my choices too where space and maintenance requirements are limited. I imagine with some choice border plants you can really bring some colour and wow factor to your existing specimens and I hope there's some interesting ideas across my vids and the garden tour videos I filmed last year especially. Thanks for watching and happy to help where I can. All the best with it!
Great video George!🥰
Thank you very much 😃
Great minds think alike. Grown lots of nasturtiums here and thankfully the caterpillars have mainly kept away
If it wasn't for you and George you tube would be a duller place. Please both keep up the amazing service you do for all of us.
Nice one, I’ve been lucky here too this year. Once the caterpillars get in they can soon munch their way through them so it’s a relief for sure!
@@CKLI38 Thanks, that’s appreciated 😃
@@CKLI38 you're very welcome. Don't worry I'm sure we'll both be keeping the videos coming.
Love Nasturtiums. So easy to grow and flourish, a real good filler with visual appeal 👌🏻
They are indeed! There'll be plenty more in my garden this spring I think!
Love the nasturtium's, they keep the caterpillars and blackfly away from your more expensive plants too.
I've said it before but Polemonium's have done for me this year what nasturtium's have done for you. Will definitely be mixing mine up with nasturtium's as fillers as well next year. Also mind your own business too 😊
Fantastic! Yes I mentioned about the bugs in a previous vid but should have mentioned it again, they’re a great sacrificial plant! It’s great that you’re already planning head and thinking what you want to do next year 😃
Another fantastic video! Hopefully your Ensete grow well next year, they are such useful plants for big jungly foliage. The shots of your garden are 👌 mate.
Thanks Craig, maybe it’s too shady for them in a lot of the garden whereas the basjoo cope better with it. Cheers, I filmed a load of clips for a big video coming up so thought I’d use some of the extras in here too! 😃
Great video George, agree about the nasturtiums, they've been a godsend for my beginner tropical garden and love the colours especially empress. However, I must give a shout out to nicotiana- even cheaper than the nasturtiums and I have 5 ft tall plants with at 2ft wide leaves! Thanks again for all the helpful advice, videos and posts. Thanks to you, it's been an incredible year even with the crappy weather 😃
Thanks you very much and apologies, I've just noticed this comment. Nicotiana are indeed even cheaper - I actually sowed a batch of sylvestris but I think it was a bad batch of seeds (or I did something wrong!). They definitely have huge leaves and you get a lot of plant for your money, thanks for your suggestion! That's all very kind of you to say, thank you very much for watching and leaving a message, it is appreciated!
Love that Tshirt 🦖🦕
Haha cheers Craig 😃
Another great video from Georges jungle garden, informative and helpful. Yes absolutely the Japanese banana 🍌 Musa Basjoo, is terrific value and certainly gives that tropical look to your garden...... this year I tried growing some sunflowers, very cheap from seed fast-growing look good in the background, behind the palm trees. 🌴 🌻 🌴 🌻 🌴........Must say, The buzzing insects and singing birds, appear to be, trying to interrupt George’s concentration in this video. 👍.
Thanks Paul! Great that you agree and have had success with sunflowers too. Yes, the birds and insects definitely feature in this one but it's as much their garden as mine!
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Very true, it has to be said.
I let the Nasturtiums self seed too. I've tried few different varieties in our new garden too this year. They have made a good impact on a garden in progress!
Excellent, I do the same too. Great to hear you’ve tried new varieties and they’ve grown well for you 😃
George, your plant combinations are stunning. Such an inspiration.
Thank you Brenda, I appreciate it! Some are a bit experimental this year but you’ve got to roll the dice sometimes and you might just find some that really work 😃
Thank you George. 👌💕
Thanks again for watching Mary!
Glad you mentioned the nasturtiums. I grew mine from seed this year . I had fantastic results from them and they had a beautiful tropical vibe. I put them in with the cannas and everywhere I had a space for them. I've collected the seed pods for next year so hopefully good results again. Might let them climb up the cordyline trunk even. Cheers 👍
That’s fantastic to hear, they’re so easy from seed and as you say you can collect that seed for next year too. Let them go for it 😃
I'm also a nasturtium fan and will certainly try them next year, but for the past couple of years I used another common staple as part of my tropical style underplanting.... the humble busy lizzie. I find it grows anywhere, even in fairly deep shade and provides a continuous pop pf colour.
Nice one, that’s another great call too! Petunias are great bedding as well if you go for the bright colours but for me it’s the rambling nature and big leaves of nasturtiums that just give it the edge 😃
Love the foliage combination of ferns against Nasturtiums.
Another great temporary tall filler is sweetcorn. Incredibly cheap to buy as plugs as well.
I'll have to look out for some dark leaved varieties too. Sadly I think Arundo donax would too over powering for my tiny garden.
It does work well for sure. I’ve got some sweet corn further down the garden but suspect the soil there might be too dry for it unfortunately as it didn’t get very tall this year. That was bought as plugs too. Arundo Donax can get to be a bit of a monster, sweet corn definitely looks neater.
Great video as always. Wonderful tips. I find Pachysandra a great budget tropical plant and you can propogate by division
Thank you very much! I’ve got some further down the garden as a shady ground cover, it definitely fits in 😃
We want to see more about tree fern ! Especially Cyathea , we see them infrequently yet they are the main plants in the tropical garden 😉
They’ll be featured at some point soon 😉
Mexican sunflowers! Can grow 6 foot, orange/ red in color.
That’s a great shout, there’s some really bright and bold flowers that get some serious height, perfect for a tropical style border 😃
Your videos are class George. I love the "Ticket to the Show" intro to the segment. This year has been my best 🍌🍌 year by some distance. I've had very little leaf shreddage and they've all grown amazing despite the cooler summer . I've thrown so much more feed this year and water at them that I've ever done before. Its made a massive difference. Keep up the great work George. Might I make one suggestion? I'd love to see a palm special video on those 2 stunning palms you have that I could look at all day, the vulcano and the jubutia. They would be at home at Kew Gardens. Cheers mate
Thanks as always for your kind words! My bananas haven't done very well this year, I underestimated the shade a lot of them are growing in I think, but yours have done so well! Your garden has completely filled out this year, the feeding and watering has definitely helped. I was hoping to have already done a video on those two palms and planted them in July but being ill definitely put me off moving them around (and I wanted to get the garden half tidy for last month). They're currently sat in their pots but I'll either do a vid if I decide to plant them out in the next month or at some point soon, thanks for the suggestion! Happy gardening!
Great stuff George.
Thanks for stopping by and watching 😃
@@GeorgesJungleGarden always do George!
@@oldgold5848 😃😃😃
Great video as always and great choices. I took your advice in an earlier video to plant nasturtiums and wasn't really sure what to expect having never planted or seen them before (total newbie to gardening this year). I bought 2 mixed packets of seeds from B&Q (other stores available 🤣) and planted the seeds straight in as per instructions. Some were 'tall' some were labelled 'Tom Thumb'' etc. Well, they have gone bananas and look so tropical. The larger ones are unreal how big the leaves are and their continued growth rate, almost too much! Will definitely be planting some again next year.
Thanks and that’s amazing to hear, they’re the perfect little gap filler and if they get too long, just snip them back a bit. I’m pleased they’ve grown so well for you!
JUST BUY BOTH THESE 2 AND PLANT
It's only a few years since I first was aware of Salvia 'Amistad' I saw it promoted over and again amongst the glossy pages of Sarah Raven's Spring/Summer catalogue.
It looked to me quite nice but not that special. I didn't buy that first time but I bought one from her next Summer catalogue; and by mid November this amazing purple flowering Salvia still thought it was high summer.
Flowering still like mad after putting up abundant quantities of large flower spike after large flower spike all summer and all autumn the first year it was planted.
Tried and tested in her own exposed windy heavy wet soil garden (then expected to last for weeks in water as a cut flower)at Perch Hill East Sussex. All this before considered being placed upon a glossy page or given a mention in a video.
All the plants I've bought out of her catalogue have been good doers. But nothing prepared me for S. 'Amistad' no wonder she promoted it so much.
No video nor glossy magazine can do it justice. And such a handsomely beautiful exotic plant it is. A magnet for butterflies and bumbles.
Now she features alongside a very similar Salvia to S. 'Amistad' it's flowers are blue and black and it's amazingly wonderful and easy just like S. 'Amistad' is. Always in flower really worth £4-95.
Salvia guarantica 'Black and Blue'
I completely agree Colin, they're great plants and keep on going for so long. In an area of gardening where so many other plants take a lot more care for a shorter display that definitely makes them special! I might add some more Salvias in next year...
Hi George
Great video again .
After watching your video late January this year which started off my addiction to tropical plants . With your advice .
I bought from Turn it Tropical.
Musa & Ensete both from 9cm pots both under a tenner .
Musa is 5 feet with leafs 2 feet amazing structures .
I have 3 pups growing from the route ball .
I bought other musa so have 5 in the garden they all have pups from the ground .
Advice on over wintering them .
Will you be doing a video on how you over winter yours ?
Cheers Wayne 👍
That's fantastic Wayne, great to hear they've done well for you! I'll be putting some overwintering vids up soon, maybe next week.
When you mentioned seeds I really thought you were going to say sunflowers
They could definitely be a close second place - you get loads of plant for the money! I think with nasturtiums it’s how adaptable, carefree and easy they are to work in with the other tropical planting. Sunflowers are great too but I guess more familiar and for me personally it’s the smaller filler plants that I find I have a need for 😃
Yes, this September starts amazing! Great review! We could hear the bees on the Salvia "Amistad".
Will you try some red Salvia sp some day, like Salvia grahamii?
Thank you!
Thank you very much and yes, the bees love it for sure! Thanks for the suggestion, I may very well try some more brightly coloured Salvias next year, they're lovely plants!
Just to add about the salvia, mine are nearly 5 ft tall so they get quite large and thats in a pot.
They do indeed (why I’m moving a couple of mine round next year). A lot of plant for the money!
Hi George have grown 3 musa basjoo in pots and they have done so well .thinking of over wintering in my spare room as only area available .do I just bring them in just before frosts and keep them slightly watered 👍thanks for any advice .great job with the garden
Hi Gaynor, sorry, just seen this comment. What is the light like in your spare room? Do you have a garage or greenhouse / polytunnel?
@@GeorgesJungleGarden good morning, my friend has a poly tunnel we could use, only we live Wales which gets a bit chilly in the winter. The light in the spare room is good. 🙏🏼
@@gaynorkinnaird800 I’d maybe try one in the polytunnel then and a couple as houseplants. Inside is probably a safer bet but I’d keep the plants on the drier side, you don’t want them to get too leggy and really be pushing out the growth whilst inside.
Thanks George, have to agree with you on banana plants. I've in filled this summer and have made a note of your recomended budget plants.
Can I ask what to do with my banana pups which are 3ft high. Thank you.
Nice one Anna. Are they in the ground and growing off a main clump?
@@GeorgesJungleGarden yes they are.
@@annasutton8078 Completely up to you if you want to leave them to form a bigger clump or dig them up then. Personally I think they look great as a group but I suppose it depends entirely on the space you have.
@@GeorgesJungleGarden OK thank you.
Hi George
Just want to ask you about bamboo tree.Did u plant in the ground or in a pot
Hi, I used to have some in pots, some in the ground, now they’re all in the ground.
is the Salvia plant related to the Chia?
That's a good question and one I don't know the answer to, I had a quick google and it looks like there might be some naming connections but I'm not sure if they're actually related! Do you grow any Salvias yourself?