25 Cheap and Easy plants to start a tropical garden
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- Опубликовано: 2 авг 2024
- 25 cheap and easy plants & trees to start a zone 7 / 8 tropical garden (in random order). Most of them have an exotic look, others from this list are great plants to combine with exotic plants. Many plants are relatively cheap when you buy them as small plants, cuttings or seed. But most exotic plants grow very fast, so that'll compensate ;)
Acca sellowiana:
Cheap when you buy it as small plant. Evergreen foliage, magnificent flowers and quite hardy.
Athyrium niponicum:
These colorful ferns are great to combine with other plants, they like a more shady spot in the garden.
Begonia grandis:
A winter hardy Begonia with beautiful leaves and nice flowers. Easy to propagate by cuttings and seed. Prefer partial shade to full shade spot.
Canna:
Great exotic foliage and amazing flowers in summer! Cannas are easy to sow (cheapest way), when you sow them in February/ March they'll flower in summer. They grow really fast! The tubers are hardy in a mild winter, but you can overwinter them dry indoors and above freezing point.
Carex (variegated species):
These grasses are great to plant under larger plants. They give a nice contrast in the border and they are evergreen! Easy to propagate by division.
Chamaerops humilis:
The European dwarf palm is quite hardy and cheap when you buy them small.
Colocasia esculenta 'Pink China':
The hardy Taro is a real jungle plant. There large leaves are really tropical looking. They love full sun but they should be kept moist! Easy to propagate by division.
Cordyline australis:
In the Uk it's a beautiful addition to the garden, in the Netherlands it's mostly a beautiful container plant. They're quite cheap and will grow fast.
Ensete ventricosum 'Maurelli':
When planted out in the garden they grow really fast, so buy them as a small plant! Within a few years it'll be a big banana. Not winter hardy, so it must be digged out and placed totally dry, indoors and above freezing point.
Eucalyptus:
Many snow gums are winter hardy! They will grow very fast but it's easy to prune them into a small tree or large shrub. There evergreen foliage is an amazing addition to a tropical garden. Small plants are quite cheap and will grow better than larger plants when planted out.
Fatsia japonica:
Indispensable in a tropical garden because the add height in a shady spot. They're foliage is really exotic looking and evergreen. Very cheap to buy, even larger species are not that expensive.
Gunnera manicata:
Gunneras at garden centers are expensive and many are 'tinctoria' instead of the larger manicata. But if you look on the internet there are many amateur gardeners who sell cuttings for a small price.
These cuttings rapidly grow into giants! They are quite hardy and relatively easy to grow, but they need lots and lots of water during summer!
Fargesia:
Clump forming bamboo, so you don't need a rhizome barrier! Not as spectacular as Phyllostachys, but easier to grow because they stay smaller and they don't have long underground rhizomes. They are very hardy, evergreen can grow in full sun to shade.You can buy them as small plants, they grow quite fast!
Ficus carica:
Exotic looking and winter hardy small tree. Very easy to take large cuttings!
Musa basjoo:
Small plants are cheap, even at garden centres. They grow very quickly into large banana trees. They're real spectacular plants during summer and root hardy! They always come back late spring!
Opuntia humifusa:
The most winter hardy cacti! Very easy and cheap to grow from a cutting! Doesn't have any problems with the wet Dutch winters.
Paulownia tomentosa:
Amazing fast growing tree. After the winter cut it down to the ground and leave just one or two growing points. In this way the plant produces very large exotic looking leaves. The rate of growth is absolutely crazy!
Persicaria:
There are some Persicarias with very colorful exotic leaves. They are useful plants in the garden because it's great to combine them with other plants. They're very winter hardy and easy to grow from a cutting.
Ricinus communis:
A beautiful annual. Easy to grow from seed! In 1 season they can grow up to 2,5 meters!
The red leaves and stems are spectacular and very tropical looking!
Salvia:
Very easy to grow from a cutting! The flowers are just amazing!
Sauromatum:
Very fun plant to grow from a small bulb. Within a few years you have a beautyful smelly flower and stunning foliage! They are very winter hardy!
Soleirolia soleirolii:
A exotic and fast growing roundcover plant! Very small, bright green leaves. Easy to grow from cuttings.
Tetrapanax:
An exotic looking giant! Very fast growing and an absoluty highlight in a exotic garden! Cheap when you buy them as a small plant.
Trachelospermum jasminoides:
Nice smelling climbing plant, evergreen and very hardy! Can even grow in a more shady spot.
Trachycarpus:
A winter hardy and relatively cheap palm. Buy them as a small plant, after a few years they'll grow quite fast!
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This is great ! A fantastic tropical garden with plants to cope with the UK climate.Thanks for including all the full plant names . Exactly what I need to get my own garden started.
Great to hear that! Thanks for watching and good luck with your garden!
This is a great informed video. Really appreciate it. 👍
Thank you!
Combining autóctonos plants...more flowers...fruit trees...🌎 Thanks very nice video
I need all of them
That's doable 😉
Beautiful
Thanks!
Thank you for sharing Tropical plants..... With scientific name
Thanks for watching!
Lovely Collection Of Tropical Looking Plants ,With Clear Labelling & Soothing Music. 🌴
Thank you so much!
Great collection of plants and really helpful. Cheers
Thank you! That's great to hear!
Wow nice beautiful garden friend
Amazing it was a good plaisure to look at this video and the music was perfect thank you so much for the video
Thank you so much!
Beautiful and tranquil. A typical English Country Garden!
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Muy hermosos la naturaleza bendiciones
Nice selection of plants, i wish I had a bigger garden to fit them all
Thanks for watching!
A very nice variety of plants, got a few in my garden.....
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Thanks for sharing this👍🏻Good info!
Thank you so much!
Such a helpful video bro, thanks for sharing!
Thank you!
Good vidéo!
Nice video, big fan of hardy Tropicals.
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Great video! 👍🏼🌿💕
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Truly wonderful.....
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wonderfull garden!
Thank you so much!
Wow .... really nice ......
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Muito maravilhoso.
Thank you!
Very nice, could you send tropical weather to N. E. England please we're at 55 degrees North 🌞❄
Beatiful
Thanks!
Very good in this videoe
Thank you!
You have some good Asplenium scolopendrium amongst the Athyrium. You show mainly forms of ‘Pictum”. The straight species is very attractive but not often seen, I’ve even lost mine!
Aspleniums are great evergreens! They grow in sun, shade, everywere. Thanks for watching btw 😉
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I agree, I have a bed devoted to cultivars.
What a lovely video, thank you! Stunning plants, great music choice. Just watched it in bed, I'm sure I'm going to dream about jungles.
Thank you so much, great to hear you liked it
Lovely garden and just as lovely is the music, do you happen to know what it's called?
Thank you! I really don't know anymore. If it's not in the description than it's from the RUclips Library. I let you know when it comes to mind.
Thank you 👍
what a beautiful garden you have ,where are u with them big bamboo
Thanks, these are all clips from different gardens, all beautiful gardens! 😉
Thank you for watching!
Great vid, inspired to have a patch of the Ttopics, might I ask, where do you get you plants and seeds from please?
Thanks, from garden events and there are some good nurseries and webshops in the Netherlands and Belgium.
Something tells me this is in the uk because most of these are cold tolerant subtropical species or tropical species that can go dormant like the calocasia.
the Netherlands, most of them are indeed winterhardy exotics ;)
Where do you recommend getting seeds? I’m looking for a new place other than Rare Seeds and Trade Winds Fruit
Can't help you with that sorry, I mostly buy seeds from hobbyists or from dutch webshops. I don't know about their shipping terms: www.onszaden.nl & www.shamanicworldseeds.nl are good webshops.
Dear good morring. It very good raport can you tell us about some seeds supplier Thank you
Thank you! I buy most of my seeds in the Netherlands but I know www.rarepalmseeds.com/ is a good one.
Is the pink China winter hardy?
Also could it grow in a shaded area?
And i thought the ensette banana wasn’t hardy
Pink China is very winterhardy. It always comes back. You can grow it in shade but it wont grow that big and fast. Ensete isn't winterhardy, but it's very cheap, will grow very fast and it's easy to overwinter if you can keep it dry and above 0°C during winter. That's why it's in this list, awesome banana! 😉
Ok thanks I’ll try pink China next year and do u reckon ensette could survive over winter inside my garage
@@ben.3 In a cold garage is perfect! As long as jou keep it dry!
what usda weather zone is this in?
These are different gardens in the Netherlands incl my own, I think 8a - 8b something like that.
@@TropicalGardening ok thank you
will these be winter hardy in zone 8a???
Most of them are hardy indeed
I don't advice planting the trachycarpus fortunei or the eucalyptus niphophila though, well not near to your house that is.....
Always use root / rhizome barrier near the house, then there should be no further problems when pruned well.
@@TropicalGardening Yup, unfortunately we did not prune them & they grew really tall & had to be chopped down..
@@TropicalGardening I still plant the trachycarpus though, but in a big pot. I really like the fan shaped leaves. The " sparrow" like birds too often came, not to sure for the fruits or what...😃
@@mgpunya1 Trachycarpus species are looking great in a pot 👍🌴
More Biodiversity 🌎
You forgot Heliconia
Could any tropical trees thrive in hot deserts?
Some trees like Acacia can thrive there
@@TropicalGardening what about other types like tropical evergreens and tropical oaks?
@@samuelzev4076 I don't know if there are oaks that will survive a hot desert climate... For evergreens: Yuccas, Agave, Dracena, Dasylirion & Xanthorrhoea
@@TropicalGardening are there any websites i can visit that can give me a list of tropical trees suitable for a desert climate?
@@samuelzev4076 www.mypalmshop.com/, it's a nursery in the Netherlands that has a list of plants and maybe you can google "drought tolerant plants".
In my place, those plants is not cheap
The plants in the video are relatively cheap if you buy them small and they will grow quite fast. Otherwise try to get some cuttings or seeds 😉
@@TropicalGardening yaa.... True... But everything in my place is expensive 😂
The music kept me from finishing this video.