30 easy evergreen plants for tropical style garden | Tropical Tribe

Grow a lush tropical style garden all year round with this list of 30 easy to grow evergreen plants. This list includes exotic climbing plants, tropical palm trees, lush leafy tropical shrubs and giant exotic ferns.
Every plant on this list of easy evergreen plants for your tropical style garden can cope with colder winter weather.
If your looking for tropical garden plant ideas then I hope this list gives you some tropical garden inspiration.
If you are already growing some of these exotic evergreen plants in your tropical gardens then I’d love to hear about it in the comments. If this video has shared some new tropical plant inspiration with you then let me know. And of course, if you can suggest more tropical plants for this list then please comment and share your ideas with this community.
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[@theweirdospfan.28]

I wish I lived in the UK where winter are warmer, here we get -20 degrees Fahrenheit and I’m struggling to find something that will survive that

[@o000omusico000o]

hi great to see you on gardeners world tonight

[@TheEnchantedWoodnymph1111]

Another wonderful video! Thank you for taking the time to produce your videos, they are always a joy and filled with wonderful info. 👍👍 from Dallas, Texas

[@jondi1115]

Great video Craig. Thanks for sharing

[@sharonconnors6061]

Excellent selection of plants!

[@ShemGardening]

So gorgeous. I love this tropical garden🌳🌿🌺

[@GrowParadise]

Thank you, the clips in this video are a mix of different gardens 👍

[@sylviemiles5439]

Hi Craig , tell your beautiful wife that I have a honey spurge and when I go past it now I have a grin to myself Cos of your wife’s laugh . 🤣🤣🤣 best wishes . And thanks for your good video . X Sylvie .xx🥰🥰

[@shahdrah]

Beautiful garden. Well done. I'm definitely on the hunt for some of the varieties shown as I have a few of what you have. Stay blessed 🙏🏾

[@GrowParadise]

Thanks! 🪴🌿🌱

[@heathereldridge9676]

Wow! Thank you so much. I took notes and can't wait to look for some of these in the Pacific Northwest!

[@GrowParadise]

No problem, good luck finding them and happy growing 😁

[@vincenzecalzone8666]

Your best video Craig of many super previous ones. Great info, great footage. Cheers 👍

[@GrowParadise]

Cheers Vincenze 👍

[@wiebestuive824]

Thanks for this video. In it are many beautiful plants I didn't know existed. Seeing them makes me realize my garden is way too small.

[@GrowParadise]

Haha! I think all us gardeners will always say our gardens are too small 😉 thanks for watching!

[@indikatillakaratne9634]

Fab. video(info.) thank you !

[@lilybethlangomez6390]

Very informative, love it.

[@sandrahickey3593]

Gorgeous. I have 6, the common ones. I will look out for these,but I'm running out of floor space for planting and pots. Great video.

[@chrisj1477]

Great video! I live in London and I have Aspidistra, 4 Magnolia, 2 tiny 'Michelia' Magnolia, Camelia, Castor Oil, Zebra Fern, Cannas, Abutilons, as well as a few new additions such as Euphorbia 'Ascot Rainbow', all in my small garden - and didn't know until I watched your video that I had a 'taste' for tropicals! Thank you, Keep up the good work!

[@GrowParadise]

That sounds like a great mix! It’s definitely got a tropical twist to it 😀🪴🌱🌿

[@shirleyDodge]

Thank you for your inspiration that’s given me food for thought in my garden

[@GrowParadise]

No problem! Thanks for watching 😀

[@TropicalGardening]

Interesting list! I like the Griselinia littoralis, new for me, thanks!

[@GrowParadise]

No problem 👍

[@forestdweller3210]

Thank you so much for this! I have 6 plants on the this list already. So it's given me some great inspiration for more I'll definitely keep a look out for Euphorbia Mellifera and Lophosoria Quadrapinnata 🌱

[@GrowParadise]

You’ve got great taste! 😀🌿

[@claudinebrown6294]

This is such an informative video. Loved it. Thank you.

[@GrowParadise]

So happy you liked it, thanks for watching 🙂

[@rosehill1595]

Wow - this is quite the list. I wonder if the fern leaf trees might survive in my garden in zone 10 - thanks for the inspiration. Really great video.

[@payneruk]

Good job on GW last night

[@michaellalor3090]

Just spotted you on Gardeners World. Garden looks great as always.

[@GrowParadise]

Cheers!

[@stephenwilliams206]

Informative video. Especially liked the Euphorbia and will try to squire one. I have 4 of the plants shown in my garden. Thanks.

[@GrowParadise]

Cheers, I do love those Euphorbias!

[@lostagain4702]

Nice

[@yellowfuchsia1]

I have eight of these plants so far with multiples of each, and another two are on my list for this year. A couple of my favourites that are not on your list are Pittosporum tobira and Garrya elliptica. I also have several fargesia bamboos which are clump forming, not runners.

[@BlissHomeGarden]

Wow, I didn't know the fatsias grew so big probably because I live in a subtropical area. Love your tropical garden!

[@GrowParadise]

They can get enormous!

[@brachypelmasmithi2498]

Saw you on gardeners world 👍🏻

[@lynnjacobs7154]

I have just placed my first order.

[@GrowParadise]

Thanks! Your support means a lot 🙏🪴📦

[@christinaclark2134]

Thanks Craig! I have 10 of those plants, not counting Euphorbia styggiana, which is really similar to honey spurge, though alas, not fragrant or as humorous. Also Pseudopanax 'Kiwi Gem' with a bit rounder and more apple green leaf. I'd love to find a Lophosoria, Lomatia, or more Scheffleras than my S. delavayi. Lots of great inspiration there!

[@GrowParadise]

Awesome, thanks for watching and sharing some of your own collection 😀

[@mina-sp8gz]

Just seen you on BBC Gardeners World, well done on great video

[@GrowParadise]

Thanks! 😀

[@SzkockiOgrodnik]

Great video apart from the tiny mistake at 14:46 😉 Enjoyed the video a lot👍👍

[@GrowParadise]

Good spot 😂

[@pinball3034]

Interesting list. It would be interesting to have a list of what is good for smaller gardens too. I like the variety in your own garden - very original selection. Nothing at all wrong with palms and cordylines (I have a few), but it is nice to see some different stuff too.

[@GrowParadise]

A list for small gardens is a great idea! 👍 I’ll try and make a video for that in the future 🙂🪴

[@pinball3034]

@@GrowParadise That would be brilliant! My suggestions would include chamaerops vulcano, fatsia spiders web, cordyline red star / charlie boy, kniphofia and plenty of gingers. None of that lot should get wildly out of control.

[@pinball3034]

@@GrowParadise Oh and sorry to keep ranting - but it would also be interesting for a list of plants which can be pruned hard (like fatsias) which would be handy for smaller gardens too!

[@garethjones7182]

Just placed first order from your shop. Wish you would stock some Schefflera species and that Melanoselinum decipens. Thanks for the videos!

[@GrowParadise]

Thanks for the order! I am growing the Melanoselinum and they should be ready to sell in the next few weeks 👍 I’ve sown Schefflera seed but they are notoriously slow 😄🌱🌱🌱 thanks again!

[@oliverblackhall]

Bowdens hostas have a lophosoria quadripinnata fern in a 10ltr pot for £125 also Crawford ferns has these too. The price is unknown since it's an email based enquiry website. But they also have many other plants of the tropical kind.

[@Gggls844]

I amin zone 9a in Central Florida will all this grow where I am.

[@philtheecow3404]

I have the Castor Oil Plant, Magnolia & Palm 👊..... Also a very tall leggy bamboo & Musa bashoo.... 💫

[@GrowParadise]

Nice! Thats a good collection, thanks for watching 👍

[@johnnyrollerskates9270]

turns out I have 22 of those plants. the roldana is new to me so I'm going to look into it.

[@GrowParadise]

wow! If your interested I often sell Roldana plants in the Spring 👍🌱 thanks for watching!

[@johnnyrollerskates9270]

@@GrowParadise thanks after looking into it I'm not sure they would be hardy enough to grow for me. I'm in Leeds.

[@rallekralle11]

wish i could grow these things. only 5 are maybe-hardy here in south sweden

[@o000omusico000o]

i am just watching this vid and i see you have a Euphorbia lathyrism seedling pop up in my garden and i don't have the mother plant ,i thought it was a weed and nearly pulled it out but will wait and see if it is infect euphorbia lathyrism

[@jamiewilliams5134]

I have at least 4 of them in my field in Cornwall. Mainly the palms, and cordyline. Need to buy more from Eden when it opens back up.

[@GrowParadise]

Sounds great, I can’t wait for places like Eden to open up again!

[@jamiewilliams5134]

@@GrowParadise I'll be putting my locals pass to good use when they open. I'd quite like another Indian bean tree from them.

[@paultsworld]

Let me know when/if you have the brugmansia seedlings - I'll buy some.

[@raphlvlogs271]

besides P canariensis are there any other species of Phoenix that are available for growing in the UK?

[@sylviemiles5439]

Hi Craig , Ive been trying to get a fatshedera , I cannot find any anywhere . I have a green and gold one , I’ve tried multiple times to propagate it but I just can’t get them to root . Do you know how to propagate it please , I’d love to see a video on it . Thanks xxSylvie x

[@cindybellwood110]

Where are you growing this garden? What is the hardiness zone temps?

[@Roatanlova68fmp71lliiiak]

Your CDP looks good, I can never manage to keep one. Nice to see a Daphne in the mix, great little plants!

[@Gggls844]

Where do you find your plants trying to make me a tropical garden in Central Florida zone 9a?

[@raphlvlogs271]

when did the concept of tropical landscaping started to appear?

[@Foba_Bett]

So these plants are cold hardy - but tropical 😲

[@GrowParadise]

Cold hardy ‘Tropical style’ plants. That’s tough plants with big leaves or exotic shapes that look great in the tropical design style 👍

[@MrBaconwhopper]

I was kind of surprised to see the Cordyline Australis in this video. It is not that hardy and especially when it's cold and wet. Mine died last year and I'm giving it one more try this year but I talked to some nurseries and they had similar experiences.

[@GrowParadise]

Hardiness varies a lot on location, this video was filmed in USDA Zone 9b. 😁

[@MrBaconwhopper]

@@GrowParadise I'm in the Netherlands, somewhere between a 9a and 9b. But I understand with Cordylines and similar plants like Beschornia, Yuccas and Agaves it is not so much cold or humidity that kills the plant but a combination of both. We have quite similar weather here and the winters are so just so wet and cold. Anyway, I hope yours manage and for my sake I hope mine do to this time because they look very nice.

[@bradsalyer6562]

Good camera work and information. I also love Jacaranda, rhaphis, hibiscus, strelitzia, canna, callas, dwarf date palms and sago.

[@GrowParadise]

Thank you 😀🌱🌴🪴 I love the plants on your list too 🌴

[@leestockton9367]

You might want to advise people what temperature the plants tolerate because most of those you've listed are only good to -5 which is useless if you're north of London!

[@Gggls844]

Wish you would list the tropical plants in the paragraphs below so we an take it to look for them.

[@GrowParadise]

The video has labelled chapters. As you scrub through the video all the plant names appear 👍

[@kalakalatu]

Of the plants shown here, I have the Daphne, Trachycarpus, Fatsia, Cordyline, Farfugium, and 3 Camellia species. Unfortunately, not all the plants in the video are hardy in my area, but those that are, are on my list now. I love the Lophosoria quadripinnata, but I can't find anyone selling it in the US.

[@GrowParadise]

Thats a shame, it is a fantastic fern!

[@yashovardhancharan6318]

Hi .. I live in tropical desert climate zone in india with extreme temperatures in summer and winter. Can I give my garden such tropical look with these type of plants? Or they will not survive ..

[@robinson101011]

Hi, What hardiness zone are you in?

[@GrowParadise]

ZONE 9b 👍

[@paultsworld]

Hi Craig, will you be selling brugmansia cuttings this Spring?

[@GrowParadise]

Hello, I’ll hopefully be selling seedlings this Spring. Orange, white and Sanguinea if they all germinate 👍 cuttings will be in autumn 😀🌱

[@paultsworld]

@@GrowParadise thanks!

[@tedscott1478]

Chusan palm? Humilis, is that right?

[@GrowParadise]

Good spot! That’s the problem with common names I guess 😂🌱

[@finned958]

I’m looking for tropical shade trees that are also gopher resistant or repellent. Any recommendations?

[@GrowParadise]

Lots of trees tolerate shade well but I'm not sure about Gophers as it os not a problem for me. Try Camelias, Rhododendrons, Fatsia, Schefflera 👍😃

[@BlissHomeGarden]

Do you know any tropicals that grow well and fast in the shade - I need some privacy between my neighbors and I. Ideas?

[@GrowParadise]

Impatiens and Tetrapanax grow fast in shade. Arundo Donax tolerates shade well too 👍

[@Gggls844]

Please post the list so we can look for them.

[@GrowParadise]

The names are in the video chapters for you 👍

[@patandamel]

Great selection, but the "Chusan palm" is the trachycarpus fortunei, not the chamaerops humilis. Thanks!

[@GrowParadise]

I will never live this mistake down 🤣 Thanks for taking the time to watch and leave a comment 👍🪴🌴💚

[@tarikmehmedika2754]

For now i have 3 of these lovely plants. Weir thst you did not include Canna lilies, nor Dahlias. 😔

[@GrowParadise]

They aren't evergreen in the UK, but they are beautiful plants!

[@tarikmehmedika2754]

@@GrowParadise Oh right, i forgot about the title. 😊

[@stanleygladstone1210]

Shop, what shop. How do I find this shop. Please.

[@GrowParadise]

Haha! The website is growparadise.co.uk (there’s links in the video description). Lots of plants will be added over the next few weeks! 👍🌱🪴

[@haroldbetterson1877]

My Torbay dazzler died this winter 😢

[@GrowParadise]

They aren’t quite as hardy as the regular green ones which is a shame 😢

[@goivannihomsher9478]

Uh oh G

[@dariopaolini9226]

🌴🌳🌲🪴🌱

[@AVA-xc7ws]

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[@samanthatannous440]

I wish you were more specific and stated whether any of those plants are sun loving. Not enough information. You did the same in another video I watched. Ive only seen 2 of ur videos including this one. Will go elsewhere for information.

[@GrowParadise]

Hi Samantha, feel free to ask questions about anything in the video. It's a great community here and most people are happy to help out 🪴🙂 Feedback like this is invaluable too, I'm always open to hear comments from the people that take the time to watch my videos 👍