Back garden is turned into an exotic jungle

A dedicated gardener has spent more than 25 years and around £10,000 turning his back garden into an exotic JUNGLE. Green-fingered Tim Wilmot, 56, moved in to a new house just over two decades ago with his wife and two children. With almost a quarter of an acre of garden space Tim, a keen gardener, decided he wanted to transform in space into his own jungle. Now, 25 years on, he has cultivated a number of exotic plants, including a variety of palm trees and his own banana trees.

[@shaziaafrin6550]

no other Garden I found this much striking as this one

[@Rk-kk2jy]

Thank You for your beautiful exotic back garden jungle tour well narrated. I loved to tour your garden jungle.

[@GrowParadise]

This video gave me so many ideas! Thank you. I've got the Rice Paper plant in tiny plug form at the moment, I can't wait for it to get this big! I've started vlogging the progress of my tiny tropical garden from day 1.

[@QarsherskiyGal]

I love it when we get creative in the garden.

[@GeorgesJungleGarden]

A great mix of exotic plants, but I especially like how they've all matured together as a little jungle!

[@GrowTropicalMK]

Fantastic jungle look

[@BananaJSSI]

Great garden. My daughter and her hubby live in South Cornwall, U.K. Lots of palms & exotica there. I also grow an exotic garden on our small island off of the south west coast of Canada

[@QarsherskiyGal]

I have been to the UK. Loads of Canary Island Date Palms and Palmettos. Have you heard of Cordyline John in Ireland? Good guy.

[@camelia9802]

Absolutely superb garden.

[@user-uq9qh9zl9l]

Great garden, Great Gardener!!!

[@QarsherskiyGal]

This is why I love your content. Keep it up.

[@alabamatropicals506]

Fantastic garden! I grow quite a bit of exotics in Northeast Alabama USA. Your plants are giving me ideas!!!

[@dean089]

Wow! Very impressive.

[@idaniamorales6058]

Beautiful

[@LukeArmitstead]

Not only are you growing beautiful tropical plants, buy your placement, design and effort is beautiful. I was searching for your instagram and I saw that you are a professional watercolor painter and teacher. Not any one can make a northern tropical garden look this good, it makes perfect sense that you are an artist. Such nice placement and flow, which sets you aside from the more typical Tropical gardener/collector.

[@natashalion8028]

Wow some great ideas, love it. Thank you for sharing. I bet you give a Tarzan roar, now and again ~

[@SuperJapanesefreak]

Beautiful Garden!

[@xyz-pg3zd]

Lovely!

[@tamararoutledge4273]

Fantastic that you'v got Gunnera mannicata in there, + Banana plants.

[@cbvickers4044]

Very beautiful ! I cannot imagine your winter chores and how you deal with your invasive specimens.

[@zamaanlk]

really enjoyed it.

[@blackbox5582]

Amazing garden.

[@MicaRayan]

So lovely

[@iandefreitas9992]

Great garden! Enjoyed watching.

[@gonzapeas93]

FANTASTIC. IT LOOKS GOOOD. GREAT JOV MAN

[@icowar]

That's not a garden, that's a field with an exotic jungle but it's class, can't imagine bringing some of them back in greenhouse every year but it works, nice job

[@monkeytennis33]

Looks amazing mate

[@prenmoodley8681]

What an achievement, incredible!

[@English-Culture]

Stunning 🌴🌾🌹🌺

[@fazalqadir7862]

Amazing

[@Nhoj31neirbo47]

Nice mature garden.

[@sukhchahal6583]

nice video.thanks

[@jacobeksor6088]

I am Montagnard jarai indigenous live in North Carolina I love you garden so beautiful.

[@giolovin]

Nice garden. 😉

[@veradiestricklieset.8645]

Super schön 🤗

[@juliegogola4647]

I am in zone 6 in the US, and very jealous..... I can grow Musa Basjoo banana, and some hardy Agaves, and Yuccas with protection from extra rain. And with shelters and heat sources I can grow some palms, but, I wish I could do what you've done with your garden, it's all really lush and nice.

[@veradiestricklieset.8645]

Sehr schöner Garten

[@user-yx7dp2pl8t]

Quite striking...

[@cyf195]

Very nice garden. I just started a tiki themed garden in my yard and I got a lot of ideas for accent plants from your video. Surprisingly, many of the tropical plants I have, including tree ferns, bird of paradise, banana trees, and various palm trees do quite well during the winter when the temperature dips to the mid thirties in the morning. No snow where I live and the temp. hardly ever reaches 32, or freezing. I get good results using Miracle Grow in the hose canister once every two weeks except in winter.

[@wazzupglinx]

pano poang pag aalaga ng b anda orchids kc ang lalake na ayaw prn mamulaklak.

[@mohammedalyas9258]

Stunning beautiful garden pal...enjoyed it UK

[@mikedinni6318]

Please do another video with how it's getting on now.

[@wissam8113]

ابداع ذوق رائع😍

[@SailingSquib]

I´m a little bit jealous so many subtropical plants in healthy condition. here in Vienna we have much more hot and sunny days in summer, but in winter we have sometimes -10 - -15°.

[@judytelles3518]

thanks for showing us your hugh garden.i am cottage garden but need a change so looking at tropical.I will end up with a combi of both.

[@rocky-fo4qe]

beautiful well done what kind of plant maroon in color was around banana tree?

[@koosvanleeuwe2580]

🤩

[@kendy123456789]

Hi fantastic garden, very inspirational, please can you tell me the name of the large ferns you show at about 4.36, I have ferns but they are much smaller than these. Ps not the tree ferns. thank you.

[@tuesdaymariekho5433]

It is an elite garden. All plants are in perfect condition. You do have a huge green house for these for winter?

[@niallkennedy23]

Outstanding. Would love to replicate that but I'm near Glasgow so have my doubts.

[@LukeArmitstead]

Logan botanic garden is a Scottish treasure. Definitely more mild than Glasgow. Maybe retire on the south west coast...?

[@user-sh7tk3uu2t]

Дуже красивий субтропічний сад у Великобританії.

[@securethebag1613]

hey mate breaktaking yard!!...where do u purchase ur european winter hardy palms? can.u give me any links

[@Bladesmobile]

What’s the reddish leaves plant below your banana please?

[@gavt1198]

anyone know which species of Schefflera that was at the end?

[@sharonconnors6061]

Taiwaniana

[@louiserosier4451]

We are just starting off live in s wales if anyone can give us some direction on what to but first and especially hardy plants I would be so grateful. We have a big square blank canvas new build garden x

[@Justafan333]

Louise Rosier I’m in South Wales also. I grow bananas, trachycarpus, tree ferns, persicaria amongst others. Check out ‘Yorkshire Kris’ for all tropical gardening plant growing info, most helpful channel I found.

[@louiserosier4451]

@@Justafan333 So nice to finally know somone else in s wales. Where abouts are you? Our soil is mostly clay so we got allot of work to do I think. Unless I just build raised beds and just put everything xx

[@louiserosier4451]

I'm following Kris and a few others but not allot of advice where clay soil is an issue so I'm.Still stuck xx

[@Justafan333]

@Louise Rosier we do have clay mixed in with our soil and I’ll admit, I wish that I had prepped the soil before starting. I’m not really sure what the advice is but my best guess would be to cut it with lots of top soil and grit.There must be videos on KZbin about improving clay? I’m close to Swansea, and the plants seem to do very well here. X

[@Justafan333]

@Louise Rosier kzbin.info/www/bejne/f2Kzd39_q7qapNk Let me know if the link worked. X

[@hebneh]

I can't imagine having to haul so many large potted plants in and out twice a year - but then I live in a tropical climate, so none of that is necessary.

[@payneruk]

What's growing under the banana?

[@Justafan333]

@Adam Payne -persicaria. It could be ‘red dragon’

[@gavt1198]

anyone know which specific species of Scheflera is in this garden?

[@veedub80099]

Schefflera taiwaniana

[@mariusmartusis5147]

what the place do you live? UK

[@menggala30071981]

Most of them are tropical plant, how Come they can grow in subtropical climate?

[@RichardABW]

You've got to be picky. Some bananas like the ones in the video will grow in the uk fine but want wrapping up for winter. Other things go inside. Some of those palms are tough and no problem, originally come from high altitudes. The uk climate in many parts is pretty forgiving, our non continental position means our winters are ridiculously mild given out latitude.

[@mysteriousgirl4438]

I definitely wouldn’t call that climate sub tropical and none of those plants are true tropical plants except the banana but they are pretty hardy

[@ryanmatushin6567]

thats not a schefflera, its cassava

[@kumarsa108]

Looks a bit like Shefflera alpina to me. can we even grow Cassava all year in the UK?

[@veedub80099]

Nope, it’s a Schefflera… Schefflera taiwaniana

[@bobrobbert5551]

What plant is that at 3:12 you touch it and just say big leaf plant 🌱

[@wesleydelman4513]

It looks a lot like a coppiced foxglove tree, Paulownia Tomentosa.

[@rachaelnunn3186]

This is beautiful, certainly, but I just dont understand why people put in so much money and effort trying to grow plants in an unnatural environment. Plant native plants people!! Support the beauty of your natural ecosystems!

[@LukeArmitstead]

At least! he is gardening and catching peoples attention with the natural world (I can promise you that birds and insects love his garden.) In relation to your comment, I see people rip out plants everyday to put in lawns. I also see much bias towards exotic plants just because they look different and call attention to themselves. A more traditional gardener would plant a non native Japanese maple and have many woodland Asian and American species and rarely get the criticism for only planting native. A lot of the species in his garden are quite adapted to the UK climate actually, and can educate people about plants from far away with similar climates, but may look a little foreign. Yes, native eco systems are amazing and need to be protected more than ever, but not everyone needs to do this in their gardens. To me, this garden screams, "plants are important and amazing!" This kind of enthusiasm about plants is needed in our world, for the average person could care less about gardening and nature. And yes, native climate adapted plants are important, you are right!

[@mdanrmdadn9378]

Are you related to Bill Clinton

[@sergiorojas4388]

Amazing garden.