Tropical Style Garden Summer Flower Ideas with Jennifer Grasham

[@GO-PIES-r6k]

I’m in a colder region in Australia (cooler winters) I came across your channel while searching for tropical gardens in cooler regions. I’ve been working on my tropical style garden for 10 years. I am obsessed with your channel and have watched your videos multiple times. The inspiration is out of this world. Thank you 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@GeorgesJungleGarden]

Hi and thank you so much! It's great to have somebody watching with your experience and I'm so pleased to hear that my vids and the gardens featured have provided you with ideas and inspiration. Are there any tricks, techniques or plants you grow over there which we should be trying here?

[@GO-PIES-r6k]

@@GeorgesJungleGarden I do notice that here aren’t many Montera Deliciosa planted outside. Mine actually fruit. Our winters drop to around 0 and summer between 30 to 40. I think they’d be fine as an understory.

[@David_Banner]

Here we go again. Gonna have to watch this video multiple times. It's OK, it's a pleasure.

[@GeorgesJungleGarden]

Haha yes, happy to help! There's so much to see there, I can see why it's so popular during the NGS openings and I'm looking forward to going back later in the season!

[@helenazzopardi1713]

Thank you George and Jennifer.

[@GeorgesJungleGarden]

Thank you, I'm looking forward to heading back later this month!

[@PaulConnor100]

Such a beautiful garden George you must have been in your element. 😂

[@GeorgesJungleGarden]

It really is Paul and absolutely! It’s the kind of place where everything seems so ‘right’ - the result of a lot of effort and years of evolutions, experiments and perfecting it 😃

[@philipbeadle2387]

Excellent video, lots of cool plants and ideas for 25

[@GeorgesJungleGarden]

Thanks, there's always room for more colour in a tropical display!

[@richardjohnson7984]

Thanks George - really informative video. Jenny and Rogers garden is a dream!

[@GeorgesJungleGarden]

Thanks Richard! It really is an amazing garden and I thought a closer look at some of the flowers would be a change from my mostly foliage vids!

[@carolebaines4075]

Your knowledge of plant names is very good george. Always enjoy your tours!

[@GeorgesJungleGarden]

Ahh thanks Carole! I wouldn't claim to have the widest plant knowledge but I was interested in all kinds of plants and gardens from a young age and it's amazing how it sticks with you. Remembering more practical and every-day useful things though is a different matter! I'm pleased to hear you've enjoyed the tours so far and there'll be some more before the season is out.

[@Craddmeister]

Stunning garden 😍

[@GeorgesJungleGarden]

Isn't it just! Completely packed with beauty!

[@shineamen3107]

What a delightful place, so elegant and colorful. Outstanding place and species! Big up Jennifer! May i name only one ?... Verbena hastata! What a gorgeous colour!💙 Great footage George! Thank you!🙋‍♂

[@GeorgesJungleGarden]

Thank you very much Bernard and apologies for my delayed response! I hope you're keeping well! Yes, the Verbena isn't something I'd noticed and knew the name of before but it's certainly a beauty and fits in so well at that really colourful and floriferous end of their garden. Thank you very much for watching!

[@shineamen3107]

@@GeorgesJungleGarden Thank you very much dear George, no worries at all! I enjoyed that garden a lot. Everything is fine here near Paris, just getting a bit cold! Take best care.🙋‍♂

[@missdimples1982]

I love all these plants, I will certainly be making some more purchases

[@GeorgesJungleGarden]

I thought you'd enjoy the beautiful colours and bold plants, they really do give a different dimension to the exotic planting don't they!

[@staffordshireShane]

Another great video ,I love using begonias for adding colour in summer for shady areas,nothing to touch them . I must try to get over and visit this garden on one of the open days, everytime you go it has a different feel and look to it .Fantastic

[@GeorgesJungleGarden]

Thanks a lot Shane and I'm definitely looking forward to growing more here too. Yes, it's a real experience and I'm looking forward to heading back at the end of the season. It really is amazing how there's gardeners growing similar plants in similar locations but the overall look and feel of the gardens is completely different and as you say, changes significantly through the year. It's a stunning garden and like yours, you can tell it's the result of experience and graft!

[@RAHULRAHUL-p9b5t]

This is my dream garden ,im new subscriber from great India

[@GeorgesJungleGarden]

Thanks, I'm so pleased you enjoyed it! They really have created a dream garden for many of us, so full of amazing colour and fantastic plants.

[@truth-hurts3089]

Beautiful George. Thank youl. I've had mixed success with salvia and verbena in Sunderland. Where Liguria been good in my sunny area. Queen victoria failed for me too. It's funny how fussy plants are.

[@GeorgesJungleGarden]

It really is a lovely garden, apologies for my delayed reply! Yes, you're absolutely right and certain plants can be dramatically affected by differences in drainage, sun exposure, temperatures, soil pH etc. although others are incredibly adaptable. Salvias are generally late flowering and not the toughest through winter so as you go further north I suspect early flowering plants like Ligularia which also thrive in damper soil may thrive easier but with everything it's all trial and error isn't it!

[@mikemillson9572]

Hey there George at George's Jungle! Is that an ensete maurelii behind you in your opening? Mine is small as they are often hard to acquire in my area and have to be ordered. I have tried to grow 6 at different times here in my own "tropical" garden and currently only have ONE survivor of all the ones I have tried over the years and it is a very small plant. With enough watering and feeding, I hope to improve it as the season drags into late summer here in West Tennessee in my Zone 7b. You do good work and I enjoy your channel. I ordered seeds this spring for the New Zealand castor bean and they are absolutely HUGE and currently almost 15 feet tall with HUGE bloom spikes. They are loving our hot, humid days and hot humid nights where temps at 10pm are still often nearly 90 here.

[@Tminus89]

Very unfortunate that you lost so much Ensete. If your Ricinus grow so fast, I'd think the Ensete would feel at home as well. My largest Ricinus is about 8 feet currently, sown indoors in the first week of april. So way slower, but my Ensete are fine. Low ground temperatures are one of the Ensete's least favourite circumstances, did you plant them out when it was still on the colder side? If so, perhaps keeping them in pots longer could make all the difference. Here in The Netherlands, we've had a cold spring which cost a lot of people their Ensete

[@texastropics]

Hi George. Musella lasiocarpa is very hardy. In North America we consider it as hardy as Musa basjoo. I had one at my home in Oregon for 8 years never protected. No issues with -8c and extended freezes.

[@GeorgesJungleGarden]

Hi, wow, -8c, that's impressive! I probably downplayed their hardiness watching back, I more meant less hardy comparatively to the basjoo which they generally are over here. I've had them come through in an unheated polytunnel then also lost them in the same conditions but again it's probably our longer, wetter winters that are the main factor. Definitely something to experiment with though and a banana relative that more 'tropical style' gardeners should be growing over here!

[@milkweeddreams8828]

Wow, so colorful, I so want to get into the garden, but the 98 F. is pushing me back inside and humidity is same...wonderful tour though...!

[@GeorgesJungleGarden]

It really is! Wow, that sounds like it's draining enough, you wouldn't want to be working hard outside for too long - take it easy and enjoy some more chilled days (if you can!)

[@karlsorchidparty2395]

Hi! Do you maybe know what the plant with yellow flowers on the right at 16:24 is? Might be some kind of Helianthus, but which one? I like its colour & the way it moves in the breeze! ❤

[@GeorgesJungleGarden]

Hi Karl, apologies I missed this comment, is it Helianthus x Laetiflorus you're referring to?

[@karlsorchidparty2395]

@@GeorgesJungleGarden thank you very much!

[@Tminus89]

I like Lobelia as well, but they like plenty of support around them from other plants. I moved mine this spring, but even now in between bigger plants they fall down one by one. I could enjoy them very shortly

[@GeorgesJungleGarden]

This is very true, my Lobelia cardinalis 'Queen Victoria' flops down every year. Lovely flowers and colour but like you say, best for a mixed and busy border.

[@wesleyhackney]

Wow I’d love to live there And enjoy spending my days in that garden. Such variety. I’m always fascinated that some of those flowers do not get full sun but still bloom nicely. Am I correct with that assessment

[@GeorgesJungleGarden]

Me too! What a beautiful space and such a triumph of effort and passion. Other than maybe the Begonias etc. which don't see much direct sunlight, I'd say most plants in the garden get a decent amount of sun. I think as long as you're not growing a plant that's adapted to more extreme conditions in the exact opposite, most seem to tolerate light and soil conditions somewhere in the middle. You're right though, some flowers fail to really perform without a sunny spot.

[@Tminus89]

Do Roscoea spread easily like the Zingiber species? If not, it will go on my list 😋

[@GeorgesJungleGarden]

Hi, I think they slowly spread going off what I've seen but nothing I would consider to be unmanageable. That said, most gingers behave like that here as we don't have the summer heat for them to really thrive. Lovely aren't they, I'll have to add some to my garden over the next few years!

[@Tminus89]

​@@GeorgesJungleGardenThanks!

[@philippehoyez9398]

Already seen at Yorkshire Kris Exotic Gardening!

[@GeorgesJungleGarden]

Yes, that's the one! It's one of both our favourite gardens and there's so much to see and share there!

[@DJSupaflyguy]

What are the plants at 4:37 darker leaf ones with orange flowers?

[@paulo7113]

Looks like begonia

[@GeorgesJungleGarden]

Hi @DJSupaflyguy and apologies for the delayed reply, thanks for stepping in @paulread7113 and I think you'll be right, Begonia 'Glowing Embers' alongside others are repeated plants in this amazing garden.