Tropical uk garden tour 4/7/25

Tropicals struggle in a cool uk summer

[@andyrmac7733]

I too have had a disappointing start a great honest look...Thank you for posting!

[@jeromephilipon750]

Thx for the update Jim. That littoralis looks ace. Grown loads since you took a punt and planted it.

[@WillEberli]

I live in Northern California, USA and our summer last year was like this. Everything was very slow. By the fall, the plants all looked pretty good, but it almost felt like Summer was skipped! This year is very different, we had a mild winter which set up the garden to outperform most years, and many plants are ahead of schedule, though we are in a heatwave right now and it's been rough on some of my garden. I guess you really need the happy medium to achieve the perfect look.

[@jimspalmsuk5098]

@WillEberli I'm glad to hear some are getting a good summer. Here in the uk we never seem to get the weather right. Last year cool and wet, this year the same 2022 was hot and bo rain for 3 months. Maybe next year 🤞

[@fansaaga4033]

@@WillEberli we always get mild winters (at least comparing to most part of USA ) BUT also mild summers 😓

[@fansaaga4033]

My garden got a bunch of slug damages. Cannas and hostas all gone once the shoot comes out. Gladiolus leaves that looks like a monstera😂

[@jimspalmsuk5098]

@@fansaaga4033 I feel your pain 😢

[@BordsCycles]

Ive had no other choice than to resort to the blue pellets this year or else i’ve no leaves left on my hostas, i think its the amount of rain were getting here in the uk that’s getting the slugs all fired up.

[@fansaaga4033]

@@BordsCycles I now grow more palms and hard plant that slugs can’t bite into. And also at night I go out with scissors and chop em all into half. There now a tons of those big red Spanish ones some are 10cm. Some times I want to burn everything down when I see 10 slugs on a single leave like hole punchers

[@Plant_Mad_Paul]

Looks bloody fantastic bro. I do think you could get another bed out in front of your summerhouse 😂 who needs grass. Done away with it in my back garden, all tho the the birds in the bird table do like to throw the seeds about I need to keep pulling seedlings up from among the stones. The crocosmia are one of my fav plants got few verities but only lucifer is in flower at the moment. I had ago at growing brumansia from seed this spring, got 3 good size plants now noticed yesterday ones got a flower bud on it 😮 lol well made can’t wait see it. My canna and dahlia struggled this year tho some that I never got around to planting out have now moved in to the places that have got hit the hardest by slug damage.

[@Plant_Mad_Paul]

Plus I do love that tender blue agave, just pings in the sun.

[@jimspalmsuk5098]

@Plant_Mad_Paul It's been frustrating this year but there's always hope . Maybe the weather will change and things will actually grow 🤞

[@jimspalmsuk5098]

@@Plant_Mad_Paul yeah I love it too