Exotic Tropical Garden Tour. Banana Plants, canna, tetrapanax, ginger, crinum, colocasia.

Exotic Tropical Garden Plant list.
Crinum powelii
canna
Trachycarpus Fortunii
colocasia pink china
eucomis (pinaplle lily)
hedychium coccineum (damaged ginger)
colocasia metalica
canna musifolia
persicaria
lobelia
musa lascorpia (Golden Lotus Banana)
ensete ventricosum hiniba
ensete ventricosum maurelii
musa basjoo green banana
colocasia propagation. • Colocasia, Elephant Ea...
ensete ventricosum red bana. • Amazing Red Banana, Mu...
ensete hiniba. • Banana Plant Ensete Ve...
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[@Rina493]

I played poker with my cannas last year, left half of them outside, they all died. (Germany near Berlin). So maybe you want to consider to at least move half of them indoors. Good luck!

[@MarksHouseandGardenUK]

Hi Rina. Thanks for this. Good idea. I've had a development with the canna I got a near wipe out with this virus which is going around. 🙁

[@Rina493]

Another beautiful exotic plant I use in my border is Arum Cornutum, also growing from bulbs. AND hardy!

[@MarksHouseandGardenUK]

Definitely going to look this one up. Thank you 😊

[@stevenbird7183]

Hi. What area of your garden do you plant your pink china? I have just put some in different areas to see which grows best. I plan on mulching them with woodchip in winter, as I'm in Liverpool. Cheers

[@MarksHouseandGardenUK]

Hi we're nantwich not far away and my pink chinas are in a sheltered little corner. I will also mulch heavily. Fingers crossed. Mark

[@tedscott1478]

Very informative, thank you! P.S. do you need to buy any weeds? I've got a huge selection!

[@MarksHouseandGardenUK]

Lol i have weeds a plenty here thank you very much! Thanks for watching 😊

[@MrRichardhind7]

Great informative video, such ashame about your ginger flowers, hopefully you'll get some more, next year this bed will be awsome

[@MarksHouseandGardenUK]

Thanks Richard. I sometimes worry i have crammed too much in. Hopefully those ginger will grow again. I can only blame myself for not securing the gazebo 🙁

[@ESHANA]

I am planning to start vegetable garden. If I keep banana plant, will height of banana plant stop the sunlight to reach other vegetable plants which I am sowing.

[@MarksHouseandGardenUK]

I suppose it depends how big and tall it gets. I suspect it will be fine. Keep feeding and watering the veg and i feel they will live happily together. Mark

[@saltlifess6226]

Nice collection of plants but your bed isn't wide enough, there smashed up against the wall and there not fully mature yet!

[@MarksHouseandGardenUK]

That's a reasonable observation, but it is deliberate. I want it jam packed to the gunnels. A dense wall of foliage. It should achieve that over the next couple of months after which autumn will arrive and i will be removing several plant for storage. I'll post an update video when the border reaches its peak and is bursting at the seams.

[@tedscott1478]

The flowers of that crinum look like brugmansia, (angels' trumpets), they're lovely🙂 I've got a crinum but it hasn't flowered yet and I was told it was UK hardy. Is that right?

[@MarksHouseandGardenUK]

Ours have stayed outdoors in pots inna sheltered position and have fared well. We've had them through 2 winters. This is their first season in the ground. I will be mulching heavily, it will be interesting to see how they cope.

[@MarksHouseandGardenUK]

I noticed that monty showed your angels trumpets on gardener's world. And yes i agree, very similar.

[@northeasthardytropicals541]

Tremendous results!

[@MarksHouseandGardenUK]

Thanks very much. It's even better now. I must capture it one final time.

[@tedscott1478]

My musa lasiocarpa are hardy, they've been growing outside, and really multiplying big time, for years. The first one I planted produced 17 pups after only one year and then about the same again the next year. That original plant still hasn't flowered and is still producing loads of offsets every year. They're as tough as old boots!

[@MarksHouseandGardenUK]

Thank you for all this really useful information. I hope mine pups! If i get 17 I'll be setting up a shop. What did you do with your 'offspring' and where in the country are you? Up north or down south? Thanks again. Mark

[@tedscott1478]

I've got fennel growing all over my garden like a weed. It grows to over 8 feet tall, in the right place, but if you leave leave it to grow too long, you'll have hell of a job to dig it up. It's normally the root that's used for culinary purposes but don't leave it growing too long! You'll need a JCB to dig it out!

[@MarksHouseandGardenUK]

Thank you for this. I think then i will put. It in pots or raised beds, remove large ones periodically and replace them with smaller. I'd read that the root is edible but also the the fine filaments of leaves can be used in salad and as a flavouring.

[@asianangie7209]

Looks so lush! I’m glad you mentioned the winter care. The banana plant is stunning!

[@MarksHouseandGardenUK]

Hi Angie, nice to hear from you again, it's doing really well isn't it? And i think it still has 2 more good months of growth this year. The banana is a beauty. We had 2 of those but sadly one didn't come back after winter. We've replaced it with three little ones. I'll have some digging up to do come autumn! Lol

[@colinwilson7134]

Looks brilliant Mark 👏👏 Can I ask how old T Rex is ?

[@MarksHouseandGardenUK]

Hi colin it has gone through one winter. It was in a small pot. We had 2 but one didn't survive.

[@colinwilson7134]

Thanks Mark, I moved mine from a pot and then again into its final home, and it died on me. So I have another from Desert to Jungle, I’ve had it four weeks now and six leaves already. They are stunning plants Mark.

[@MarksHouseandGardenUK]

@@colinwilson7134 sometimes they don't follow logic. No matter what you do they pop their clogs. Our two were identical and both had identical treatment. Strange.

[@colinwilson7134]

@@MarksHouseandGardenUK maybe they are female 😂😂😂

[@colinwilson7134]

@@MarksHouseandGardenUK I have cut it down in and put the dead looking one in a raised bed, in case it comes round 🤞ps, it’s been raining here since Sunday night now, how is the weather with you mark

[@tonymulreid6347]

Thanks for a very relaxing 20 minutes Mark touring your tropical garden. Looks great.

[@MarksHouseandGardenUK]

Thanks Tony

[@MarksHouseandGardenUK]

(Tony, i did a wildlife pond update)

[@tonymulreid6347]

@@MarksHouseandGardenUK Cheers I will check it out now.

[@stevefindlater302]

Hi Mark, great tour. Can I ask how often you water the banana’s and Gingers please? I was doing daily but read I shouldn’t be. I’m now torn if I should leave it to 3 times a week or daily? Thanks in advance.

[@MarksHouseandGardenUK]

It's weather dependent of course but in the heatwave daily, during wetter times every 2 or 3 days. Are yours showing and signs or symptoms of distress at all?

[@stevefindlater302]

@@MarksHouseandGardenUK thanks for replying. No my bananas look ok to be honest, not super fast growers but they are all in pots at present (bar my Musa Basjo which are in the ground). My gingers though have hardly grown and the leaves are curling down which I’ve read can be too much or too little water so I’m not sure which, there is new growth at the bottom so they are alive at least. I have had a white powdery substance on them too which I’ve no idea what it is, it just wipes off.

[@MarksHouseandGardenUK]

@@stevefindlater302 whenever i hear 'white powdery' i always think of mildew. Which i associate with damp. Perhaps you could withhold water for a brief period. Or water less regularly. Also, i might use a fork to gently aerate around the roots, gently without too much disturbance. I was reminded recently that many plants need oxygen at their roots.

[@stevefindlater302]

@@MarksHouseandGardenUK great shout, thank you 👍🏼