Tropical Style Garden Tour - September 2024

hello welcome back to another monthly tour video this one's for March 2025 I'll take a look around the garden see how things are progressing as always we'll start just below the decking not a lot's going on here you can see the hostas starting to pop up now it's one of the large ones this a spot of Empress Wu this is Wu La La nice big hosta saw they went in last year so should be quite big this year and if needs be I'll take this sedge out because I think it was self-seeded I never planted that here so that can come out no signs of the canners yet so a bit early for them might even be out on next month's tour video but the ones in the greenhouse should be up by then oh yeah the ones in the garden take a little bit longer here's my potted palms I'm thinking the one on the end which is Trachycarpus nova that might go in the new bed which is one that I've I've created since the last tour video so we'll take a look at that as we get down there that's at the bottom where the compost it used to be for a couple of nice new plants to go in there one's come from the front garden another one come from dug it up from somebody's house recently beautiful plants it's over here as you can see Decky Steps still not in now that'll probably happen in the coming week so hopefully once the trees are down that's happening tomorrow so I'm gonna get this tour video done by the end of the month and then yeah the next one the next video we should be down I'll try and get some footage out if I can so then I think in this spot you can see this is Schaefflera de la Vieille starting to flush I'm thinking this is gonna go in this spot here and this big red-hot poker this might potentially come out here because it's gonna it has massive long leaves on it and I think this is gonna be a nice spot for the Schaefflera a decent distance away from the path a good distance away from the path because it does sprawl this one so I've not got many places I could actually plant it far enough away it can go slightly further back I'll sort this area out tidy it up I reuse this big stone here I used to have it as a birdbath I set that back up again used to get plenty of birds in that nice to watch so yeah I'm thinking I'm thinking this one's gonna go in here the Tetrapanax on the last video you remember I said I wasn't sure if it were gonna make it but looking at this it's just starting to to bud up now so that's good it's not gonna shoot from the base it should shoot just just carry on lose a little bit of height but that's not so bad still not sure where this waggy's going it's alright there for now there's a little bit much room in there if that Tetrapanax gets going at least for a while till it's up till it's up high card lines as always doing well one thing I have done it's the last video is a certain place around the garden I've added these rocks to the edge of the path because the birds are a nightmare they love to just flick compost bark chippings anything that's any mulch anything that's on the top surface they just like to flick in the paths always a mess see I've added that since the last video probably that two weeks ago now see down the bottom I've done it down there too grass is getting ready for a repair so I'll do that shortly ferns have all been cut back now I think I did that just before the last video I can't actually remember should have watched it back but now remember I cut back this ivy I've not done the top yet but this princeps cross waggy or waggy cross princeps you can really see it now because last year it was it was almost completely buried under the ivy so if I keep that in check this should grow better get more light I remember to water it as well because I can see it that's here looking not too bad looks probably worse worse in real life than it does on camera because it's a yes it's not the greenest at the minute but it looks super green on camera we'll see how the new growth comes that's not lost any height because I've got another one in the garden that's died back a fair bit I'll show you that when we get to it there should be some pink Chinas in here somewhere we've buried under all this mulch I've redressed this recently you can see lots of leaves on it as well but I have top dressed this recently so I've buried stuff that might have been just poking up the pink Chinas won't be poking up yet though you can see still not quite flowering this is all the bluebells I think I told you before I've not planted these and they're taking over where the Ophiopogons are the mondo grasses but these will not last too long and then and they'll be gone again that's not too bad and it'll add some nice color when they start flowering my longish trachy looking well it's actually one of my favorites now it's getting quite big and I think this one's looking a bit sickly I wanna this was the one I bought us the biggest and it's like it's almost shrunk because the old fronds are dying some have been cut off it's just not looking its best I'm hoping though this is its third year in the ground so hopefully it's gonna kick on this year no signs of it flowering so hopefully just put all its effort into growing some nice good fronds this year this is looking better and better every month this is Euphorbia John Phillips cross Pasterii yeah it does look fantastic this lovely vivid lime green just gonna get bigger and bigger this will fill all this space in here and that's what I'm looking forward to just filling out I'm gonna carry on chopping back this tree have a right struggle with that but I might ask the boys tomorrow chopping back with chainsaw if they can just a lot lower I was originally gonna drill some drill some holes in it plant some ferns in I had a brand new drill bit on that just burnt it straight out so I didn't even I did a few holes but I couldn't get very deep on it so I bailed out of that one so I'd rather just chop it down let this Euphorbia fill all that space and then there's my other little palm down there creeping along that's not anything special no ananas or anything that is creeping along but hopefully it'll start to shoot up soon there's no signs of my Xanthodesia Hercules growing yet it's nice and firm but it's not showing any signs of life just yet but the weather's really starting to pick up now so hopefully hopefully it does start growing soon here's the other border edge just hopefully gonna help it does seem to have to be fair worked stopping the birds making such a mess yeah then we've got this is the Butiagres Erisbertha spent the winter in the greenhouse this did so yeah I haven't braved it outside yet spent two winters in the greenhouse might even spend a third winter in the greenhouse if the location I'm gonna plant it isn't ready so that's gonna go down the bottom where I'm renovating potentially not gonna be ready this year and even if it is might be too late in the year to get it planted so I'd rather keep it looking nice and healthy carry on growing in the pot and then yeah plant it out when it's slightly bigger even bigger little bit of a surprise here is I've got this is the Mahonia and this is Narihira and I think I don't know if it's so much frost or I think it might have dried out a bit much with all this wind it's windy today and we've had a lot of wind and it's in a pot so maybe I just not watered it enough I mean there's plenty of a nice green growth but this this limb especially just seems to have gone real dry and crispy and the leaves just fall away as you can see on the floor just blowing a lot of the leaves off it should recover perfectly fine but a bit of a shame it was a nice sized plant and it is perfectly hardy so there's no reason a reason that would be defoliated so we'll just keep an eye on that one as we go all the tetrapanax now are really starting to they starting to move all of them are starting to go now all out the shadow of that tetrapanax it's gonna look better and better this in the coming months this is really starting to mortar now see plenty of nice green growth we didn't lose any height on that this year no height whatsoever that's gonna hopefully I'm hoping top of the summer house no problem maybe it may be slightly above and hopefully get a good bit of trunk height to that so that next year the trunk height is gonna be maybe up here and then I should be able to walk under the canopy nice and easy at the minute this will fill right out to the path and you're kind of pushing past it and then obviously we've got a couple more pups that came up I do like this one how close to the path it is but we'll see how it goes to so whether it stays or not because it it's gonna take all the light from this Acer which is leafing up nicely now by next month this will be fully out look lovely that will yeah this is I do want to keep it but I may just keep chopping the leaves off the overhang the path and keep the ones to the back just to allow it to keep growing up we'll try for a week because you know if you look at this as a pup from last year it's grown all that so this year this has got a nice strong root system on this it's from that from this plant over here well they have a planted one tetrapanax well in this location so this hopefully you know same again same height again that'll make it like four foot almost of tronchite and with the leaves on top of that next year should be under it if I can put up with it all this year hostas are coming up underneath as well it's kind of growing up through the hostas so this is it's a nice fat fat shoots on this one this will be their third year in the ground as well so these have really bulked up since I put them in they only had a couple of eyes on them when I put them in and I put five little plants in all the way down the edge to border it it's lovely in spring so they'll be out in the next couple of weeks well as you can see these will not be out this will be out in not too long these pan across not a lot happening in this this area I'm glad to see that Charlie boy is looking really good so it's been out all winter under the slight protection of the trachea only a little bit of mild damage to it that'll grow that out no problem it's it's not lost any of its growth you know it's not died off too much at all really happy with that and minimal protection I just use a zip tie on the worst of the nights just pull it up from the base closes all the leaves in nice and easy I've got another Mahoney this is volcano this is doing all right now settled in nicely small shiflera this one's Taiwaniana can't see no new growth on it yet I don't think pick it up on camera or maybe maybe it's just starting to flush some of the other ones in the garden are flushing as you can see I've mulched all this bed this makes it a little bit tidier and gives it a bit of a feed this time of year really shows off the boutier looking real nice boutier odorata another couple of months though you struggle to see it from all angles where all the growth gets going so it's nice for the canopy off it just to see it so this year I think I'm gonna grow there is a daylier down there but I might grow some slightly lower stuff just so that from this angle you can always see you can always see the boutier because it's a shame to hide it you know it's such a wonderful plant and then what else have I got down here make see where I forgot to I've got to spread that around that mulch here we've got some pesticides this one's golden palms spreading itself about nicely this is and I've already took a few divisions off it this year give them away so the main plant started somewhere over here where this one is flowering now look that's a little flower this one's flowering but then there's plant here plant here another one and then this is this seems to be the biggest one so far if we follow all the way around here there's another one here I think I showed this on one of my previous videos about taking all the covers off the musubashoos I showed you where these had spread to because I dug some more up from here and actually near this pot yeah another one so this is really gonna fill out this area maybe the wrong spot for it to be fair so we'll see how this progresses but be nice and full this I just might not be able to get through the path right so I spoke about at the beginning of the video take a wander down and look at the news the new bed that's I've created very recently so I've rocked it I used to have my compost bin here it's a little bit of a mess but you see my compost bin here and then a pile of manure in this far corner I've done I've created a slight raised bed it looks nice like that and then I've got my gunnery from the front which wasn't doing anything I got this from a friend a few years ago and just had it in a pot in the front all right well it had done something but obviously it's gonna do far better in the back now it's ready to ready to explode this now all this around this and blood fish and bone around it in the planting all and around just help get it established and feed it plenty of manure in this bed there's still quite a bit in this corner that I've dug about so it's really this is gonna be a really rich bed these should grow really well and the star of the show in this corner me and a friend went and dug out some some bamboo so this is Berenda KR 5600 beautiful blue bamboo not sure you're really gonna be able to pick up how blue it is on camera because this took some real effort digging this out and we've probably brushed all the blue off it for this year but the new combs will come up beautiful blue this was some effort to get this out of the ground so well worth we're here we're at this plant so thank you thank you to Sean Barton for this plant I really really appreciate that so if you ever watch this video thank you very much so this one is gonna go into this spot here which is around two meters two meter long two meter wide sorry and that'll spread it can have it can have a decent chunk of this I'll let you have all this especially all that maybe all the widest space here and I'm thinking maybe have a track of carpets and over here that'll grow up pretty quick obviously the gunner below which is gonna fill all the rest of the space then we'll see how that goes there's probably not gonna be too much else going on in here maybe they will this year because there's things that only just going in for the first year but yeah be excited to see this bed grow especially this bamboo in Sean's garden these bamboos must have been a good six seven meters tall really towering up and above so when that goes in this corner and these trees come down tomorrow I'm gonna lose all that height in the coming years these are gonna provide some height so through that gap there you're not really gonna see the bamboo is gonna fill all that area really really excited to see that let's take one last look at the around the back of here before it all changes next month hopefully so you can see in here climbing oh that's my old the pallets that used to be my compass bin so this blue line then this is where ground level is for the outside I want these trees to definitely be below this this level the plenty of plenty to go out underneath we have changed on then at least all of that that is underground I don't know we're gonna get with chainsaw as low as they can get I'll be perfect for me yeah these are these are big big trees but really get the scale of it on on film but yeah it's gonna certainly change this area when when he's come down the other one again look a blue line so where the ground level is again try and get lower than that this section is obviously higher it does drop off significantly down here you should be able to get in nicely to cut this I'm hoping get below ground level and I'm gonna have a retaining wall somewhere through here leave it a bit of a gap if they ever need to maintain this wall or anything because apparently people's come up through the back there so that's where that's where we're gonna leave a gap because I was originally gonna go all the way up to the wall but yeah I've decided just against that just just to give access to the building if ever needs to happen but yeah I can't wait to transform this space give me more planting opportunities and then we're gonna be able to look back have some sort of seating area yeah that's me falling over looking into the pond standing this spot which you've never really probably never been on in on camera before here fish looking that lovely today and then just they say you can see yeah we're all issues tadpoles plenty of frog spawn who knows how much of this will hatch and survive because obviously we've got the fish in the pond but generally a lot of it does survive every year by hundreds of small baby frogs and there's a hell of a lot of big frogs in this pond now or around the pond so you can see some of them already hatched already hatched so we can watch them grow my daughter loves watching the frog spawn well the baby frogs when they've hatched there we go now we'll carry on back around might be footing as I go because there's everywhere you go there's plants popping up some more hostas here soil random pile of soil to move so I'm the water but still gonna stay here and I think the overflow I'm gonna send down down here down and feed the gunner because that's gonna take up again all this space as you can see the decent size space but show you all know how big gunner cryptica gets absolutely huge so that'll come right out and over the border somewhere but this pond will eventually this bit I'll be made slightly smaller and the pop will come around winding this way I'm hoping giving myself a good few meters maybe up to three meters that's gonna give me plenty of room to get round so you've all seen George's garden just how big is gunners get that's in the coming years that's what I can expect hopefully and say I've not had this in the ground before I'm looking forward to watching this one grow in the back plenty of plants still in pots ready to get growing here under a doorknob there's a nice pink to this but you can't really tell this one this is you'll be able to see when the new shoots come up it does have lovely pink lovely pink hues to this not actually sure where this one's gonna get planted just yet anyone that hasn't watched his channel before the cobble path just show you the cobble path so the paths gonna come from here we're gonna send it out here around and down through the far through the far fence posts into that back section we've just come from and then we'll continue the garden I can take all those panels out get the planting like the rest of the garden because when you get to about here as you see not really a lot's happened in this it's a bit overgrown wild now I used to have a stream that ran from here cascaded down rounded in that went out of action a couple year ago and I've just never got it sorted so it's finding time for things in it so many jobs in the garden we've got some stuff popping up in here now this burner is up lovely white color this really really white can't remember what this one's called to be honest shall we have a look Brunnera Dawson's white that's what that one is it's variegated white and green this is when it comes up a podophyllum spotty dotty lovely plant see if it gets knocked back by the slugs and snails though hopefully having it this close to the pond get a bit of help from the frogs I'll do me a massive favor and in this spot I have dug out I had three kindle hills in this spot I see one two there was a third one here the idea behind having three of them in here looks nice planted as a three and also it would have they're gonna grow up and eventually it'd be a canopy for these two Dixonia antarctica tree ferns well I've got a couple more on the way I don't think in a three footer somewhere here pretty much where that is so that's probably gonna move because I'm thinking like just just in this sort of area a three footer so we'll have a two footer there this is the five footer slightly over that now because it's putting a good bit of well not a good bit of size but a good few inches since I've had it this five footer and then a three footer in there as well I still got a couple of palms to grow up in there but I've also got come around here you'll see the loquats here that'll put some size on I'm gonna let that get up and then hopefully branch across and just just fill out this sort of space over here just to give that little bit of overhead protection to the two well to at least this smaller of the two two soon to be three three ferns as you can see it's up I'd say it's been quite a mild a mild winter really and it's still the still browned off but I'll leave these on so the new flushes out you can see this they are starting to come now plenty of knuckles in there so I'll leave these on and they cut them off once well I may cut them off I may not see they're gonna if I don't cut these ones off they are gonna bury everything that's below the ones on the bigger one they'll definitely stay on they will stay on I just like it when it's got a bit more of a full crown even if they're not you know they're not green but I like the look of it looks nice and natural like that then watch my previous video you'll see that we've uncovered the Musubashu bananas I always like it this time here when these are unprotected now just gives just you're not looking at loads of covers and yeah anyway I've seen this channel before you'd see how I had them protected with the land drains works perfectly fine but it's not the best thing to look at all winter especially now we're getting into spring and you're out in the garden more you want to actually enjoy your plants and not see not see all them land drains so these should be perfectly fine now starting to grow since I've cut them back just see where they're pushing up a bit and this one can be cut back a bit more if I need to because these grow pretty rapid when when I get going anyone that's grown these I'm sure you know this one's go on 5G Sierra Buster Campbell it's going quite well a couple of years in the ground now fills out a space lovely nice evergreen backdrop would make a lovely hedge this one I think this year should get even taller no taller than what the last year's columns were but even if that maxes out at four meters they're perfectly perfectly fine for me nice yeah it just really does give a nice evergreen backdrop will not go into the greenhouse it's always a mess avoid that one thanks for this one Shane still in a pot at the minute but yeah lovely little plant right now the names avoided like escaping me so I remember I'll put it on screen very annoying when you can't think of a name again this will grow big big leaves be well worth to be a beautiful plant in the garden well worth growing anyone who's into tropical exotic plants substitute a good substitute for the gunner of this same sort of leaves grows massive yeah it's a really nice plant as always the Mahonia softcrest looking fantastic if we've covered that on all videos I don't need to show that off anymore the Hellebores absolute profusion of flowers now they look fantastic for this time of year when not much else is flowering yeah looks real nice not got too many spring bulbs this year nothing nothing else is really flowering so this this looks great and obviously I grow it for these these lovely leaves did I have these planted last? yeah I think I did didn't I? this Schaefflera just getting ready to flush you can see in there just about getting ready to flush so this this compared to last year is going to look a bit different because obviously I had that at the Boutiagris palm from over there that was sunk in the ground in a pot here last year so that that filled a big space here so this year it's gonna look quite low compared to compared to last year so I'll have to adjust to that but in no time at all the Schaefflera will grow up I can plant some other stuff in here just to fill out if I need I could put some canna's in here for some instant height but yeah we'll see how this progresses and then this is this is definitely one of my favorite palms obviously we're back at the beginning but it's really short this time but this one's a Trachycarpas Fortunii Cross Princeps it just seems to hold itself really well that leaf it's not massive yet but yeah it just holds itself really well so I'm looking forward to this one growing going away this year again this will be the third year for this palm so so really on a third year that should start to mortar let me get this plenty of water and feed this year get it going when I start once it gets to a size like the one over there it starts to be more impactful at the minute everything on this border especially is really quite low no nothing's over nothing's over a foot and a half two foot so you just so that's it guys I think that's a decent tour of the garden if there's anything you'd like to like to know the names of or specifically go back to just leave a comment below and we'll take a look and I can reply to you tell you what it is because I obviously can't focus on every single plant in the garden the video would be even longer than this half an hour one so yeah I hope you've enjoyed the video please like comment and subscribe if you already haven't I'll see you on the next monthly tour video