Today’s video is the third part of my series from The Secret Garden of Louth, an autumn tour of the exotic plants and tropical rarities as growth in this amazing Lincolnshire rainforest garden comes to a crescendo! Yes, it’s peak jungle garden time and I’m joined by Jenny Grasham again to show off the hard work, creativity and beautiful planting that her and Rodger have put into this beautiful and inspirational garden. Our focus is on the rare, fast growing and huge tropical style plants like Musa basjoo bananas and Tetrapanax plus hardy exotics like Brassaiopsis and Schefflera, but this densely packed urban jungle garden is also home to fantastic late summer and autumn flowers like Salvias, Hedychium gingers, Cannas and more. Whether you’re a tropical garden beginner, real plant collector or just a lover of beautiful gardens I’m sure you’ll appreciate seeing round!
Jenny and Rodger open their garden through the NGS with exotic plant sales and refreshments every Thursday and Sunday in August (by appointment), for more details follow The Secret Garden of Louth on Facebook below:
The Secret Garden of Louth – NGS Summer Open Garden Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/thesecretgardenoflouth
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Spring Garden Tour Video: https://youtu.be/0_cOa-MWayQ
Summer Garden Tour Video: https://youtu.be/wg6kKW6fasc
Pan Global Plants – Rare Exotic Plant Supplier UK: https://youtu.be/NrPo6Cdedqg
0:00 Intro
1:22 UK Tropical Jungle Peak Growth Tour – Huge Exotic Foliage Plants
07:02 Tropical Style Garden Island / Raised Bed with Colocasia, Ricinus & Autumn Colour
11:46 Huge, fast growing Paulownia tomentosa tree and tropical style exotic plants
18:16 Hardy exotic Hedychium gingers and late garden flowers and crazy jungle plants
32:12 Thaumatophyllum bipinnatifidum houseplant & exotic plants for shade
37:58 Huge Musa basjoo hardy banana plant, Tetrapanax papyrifer ‘Rex’ tree & Boehmeria
39:39 Colourful exotic garden flower border September autumn tour – Tithonia, Cannas & Tropical Foliage
44:01 New greenhouse project – room for more of Rodger’s propagation magic and lots of plants for sale!
45:36 Miscanthus lutarioriparius & colourful Salvia border for late season colour
53:05 Walking back to the house, jungle garden tour & talking about rare & experimental plants plus gardening challenges
65:50 New plant buys, hardy exotic effect plants for shade, Boehmerias & rare Trevesia palmata Snowflake Aralia
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George
19 Comments
Thanks for the lengthy tour! The amount of beautiful, less common plants is nearly endless. If I ever need inspiration, it's great to have this video to come back to
That Trevesia Palmata is a wishlist plant for me, hard to come by and not cheap
Absolutely incredible! This is the dream isn't it!
1:12:39 can you ID the plant behind the Setaria? With the longer woody stems, in the black pot. Some African Pelargonium?
We can never see enough of this garden.
Fabulous.
Has to be said I always have serious plant envy watching jennys and Rodgers spectacular garden.The breathtakingly variety of plant specie. As a self awear plant addict I'm always like jenny continuly looking gor my next fix. Challenging in my small garden…Thankfully my front garden is able to take the overflow.
This is a stunning garden Jenny/Rodger are amazing garden/plant enthusiast growers 🪴
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What I wd like to know george, is when are you having a garden tour? Or have I missed it?
Wow what a garden! What is Philips jungle day btw is there a link?
Where do you see yourself in 30 years…
What is the Latin name on the vigorous vine at the beginning of the tour?
Very beautiful! But to be honest, it would be very interesting to see this garden in winter. January, february, early march. As a series. Throught the seasons.
Great to see how the garden has changed over the seasons, absolutely beautiful. Question for Jenny: What compost mix and brand do you use in your pots. I have had really bad results this year, I've tried doing a few mixes, but nothing has grown well.
Hi everyone and thank you all for your lovely comments about this amazing garden! I had hoped for a gorgeous autumn day to film on, with golden sun, clear blue skies and enough time to film clips all the beautiful plants and areas in the garden to overlay but I did the best I could with what we had. A huge thanks again to Jenny and Rodger for their time and expertise in putting these together – they're both amazing people and so generous in sharing their garden for a good cause.
A couple of corrections for this one, the plant described early in the video as a Cinnamon vine (which they also grow) is in fact known as Chestnut Vine or Tetrastigma voinierianum – a houseplant I could picture from my childhood but didn't want to put an incorrect Latin name to in the vid. Apologies for the mistake, as Jenny said, both begin with a C! There was also another mix-up later in the video, the plant described as growing from bulbils is actually another Elsholtzia flava. Given the thousands of plants from all over the world in this incredible garden I can forgive these mistakes but wanted to pin a comment to help those of you out who are looking for them. Thanks for watching!
What a beautiful tour. Thank you for sharing these gems as you do. May I propose we categorize this aesthetic as "Dense Lushness?" That May not even be a proper word but I feel like 'jungly' notates particularity. The vastness of species in her collection translate like a coveted curation of sensation. With each turn in the meandering I find myself gasping in awe at every introduction. Soooo lightheaded now. Lol. Thanks again for sharing
I absolutely love the giant tropical foliage. Thank you all for sharing through the seasons. Truly incredible. 🌴
How do you compost it all?
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