Tropical Garden so far

To add to your list: Canna musifolia grande

Not spotted that before, probably as I look for specific colour rather than mixed, but it sounds like an excellent route to getting some large flowered plants

 

Its a lucky dip Kristen. I grew some from seed last year, but that was before I had my garden room. So they spend almost all their life outside in the cold of early last year. As a result none of them got very big. But they did have large flowers and some interesting dark foliage as well - so worth a gamble. They overwintered as rhizomes and at least one is just coming into flower now.

 

A yellow Trumpet Vine will show up beautifully with the fence color.

The Allamanda commonly seen all over the tropics covered with bright yellow trumpet shaped blooms up to five inches across. The light green, glossy leaves are produced on slender, green, twining stems turning woody with age. Needs a warm (15ºC) conservatory or greenhouse over winter. A very rare and difficult to source seed.

 

As much as I love A.cathartica it's not going to happen outdoors in the UK. It needs bonkers levels of sustained humidity to thrive. That said, it's on my lottery win plant list to fill the huge greenhouse I'll build!

Ian - Thunbergia gregorii may be worth a go...................


Grows well in a pot, but Sue left it out all winter and it has survived. Photo below was a first year plant last year..............

 

Hi Tunkucoo and welcome to Gardener's Corner. Do tell us where you are from and if you have any experience with tropical plants.

There are a number of us in the same position of wanting to create a tropical garden. In Britain, as LongK said the key aspect is what overwintering facilities you have, as this will determine what you can grow. Earlier this year, I managed to get some Allamanda blanchetii seeds (the pink version), but couldn't get any to germinate.

LongK - I love that T. gregorii. I had no idea that it might overwinter outside. But of course the temperature outside where you are is the same as inside in N Yorkshire. My own new plant seems to be producing some flower buds.

 

Hi peter and everyone, Kristen I know well from another forum...looks for Kristen

I am from Wigan Lancashire, have my own three Wordpress sites. I don't grow many tropicals but I do have aTrachicarpus fortunei I am fond of, also a fern which are such an awesome addition to your garden.

No pets. Scared to the extreme of Wasps and Bees it keeps me out of the garden till late.

 

Neither did we!!

Let's face it, we had an exceptionally mild winter. I doubt that it took more than a handful of light frosts that certainly did not last beyond early morning.

Hang around and we'll do our best to switch you to the dark side of growing tender exotics in an unsuitable climate!!

If it helps, I suffer an extreme allergic reaction to bee stings.

 

I hav'nt and have no Intention of risking a sting, I get sun when I am out and about shopping.

 

I've planted a Clematis otophora, its a species clematis, comes from western and central China, with bright yellow flowers.