JWK's Tropical border

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  1. JWK

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    Most things have grown away since planting 6 weeks ago. The tree ferns have sprouted some decent fronds and the first cannas are starting to flower.

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      Cracking pictures and garden, John!!! It's a style and form of garden I really like, but you've got spaces between your plants!!!!!, why????!!:D:heehee::heehee::loll:
       
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        Lovely plants and garden - looks just like monkey territory :heehee:. What type of Yucca's are those (assuming they are Yucca) are they hardy?
        Love it!:)
         
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        Lovely John. I love the dark leaves of those Cannas. :dbgrtmb:

        Other than the Cannas, do the rest overwinter in situ?
         
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        Yep, I like that style.

        Will you always keep the DA.s in pots to winter indoors?
         
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        Love the garden John, I do love tropical plants, particularly Cannas :thumb:
         
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        Looking good there John ,Well done ...looks really well for the first year

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        Hey John,

        Its all looking beautiful- very shiny and pretty.

        You've done a fantastic job.

        And you changed your pic? What happened to the dodgy bloke in the wig?
         
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        It's for the weeds to grow, now I've finished planting I need something to do at weekends :loll:


        Pixie, they are Cordyline australis (Cabbage palms) - I did have a couple of really big Yuccas in the previous planting scheme, but they were getting too dangerous with my grand-kiddies around so I dug them up.


        I've really got to work that out Peter, a couple of the banana types and a Sago Palm will have to come into the greenhouse, I'm hoping that all the others are going to stay in-situ with a generous layer of mulch.


        Well I'm hoping that we don't get another really bad winter, I could lift those two smaller tree ferns into my greenhouse if it looks like it will be a repeat of last year, but the big 7 footer will have to take it's chances outside. I am going to wrap it up though.


        Thanks Melinda, it's big and bold and although it just looks like I've plonked evrything in without worrying about the brash colours I did spend a couple of weeks shifting the main plants around before finally planting up.

        The wig had to go, I think I was scaring off some of the newbies on here :)
         
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          Well you certainly scared me! :heehee:

          Brilliant job there, John :yess: :love30: :dancy:
           
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            Superb ! :)
             
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              That's an impressive border John, :dbgrtmb:
              I hope to do something like that but on a smaller scale.
               
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                Wonderful John. Good selection of accent colors.
                 
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                  I don't know how I have missed this post ! Super border John :dbgrtmb: Like Strongy I am also doing something similar next year - again on a much smaller scale. What varieties of Cannas are they ? Looks like you have 3 types how tall does each one grow ?
                   
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                    harry, they are canna tropicanna from Homepage, I bought them for the leaf colour really. There are 3 different vars , gold, orange and black.
                     
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